VelocityStruts includes four view tools that provide access to Struts resources from within Velocity templates. This page is the starting point to the reference documentation for the view tools. Primary audience are the template designers.

Velocity for Struts currently supports the follwing four tools:

MessageTool
Provides access to the Struts application resources for internationalized text.

ActionMessagesTool
Provides methods to work with Struts action messages

ErrorsTool
Provides methods to work with Struts error messages.

FormTool
Provides miscellaneous methods to work with forms and form beans in the context of Struts applications.

StrutsLinkTool
Extends LinkTool to to add methods for working with Struts' Actions and Forwards.

SecureLinkTool
Has the same interface as StrutsLinkTool and should substitute it when the SSL Ext. extension for Struts is installed.

TilesTool
Provides miscellaneous methods to work with Tiles in the context of Struts applications.

ValidatorTool
Provides methods to dynamically generate javascript validation in the context of Struts applications.