Struts 2 on WebSphere 6.1

[Steve Mitchell]

I'm trying to connect a client with a WAS Admin who is running Struts 2  with Spring on WAS 6.1.  One of my clients is trying to deploy its first Struts 2 application on WebSphere 6.1. It runs perfectly on Tomcat 5.5.  The application deploys successfully to WAS 6.1; however, when they attempt to call an action they get a 404 with the message "There is no Action mapped for namespace / and action name . - [unknown location]."  In the message, the namespace and action are missing.  It is as if the complete URL does not make it from the WebSphere filter manager down into to the Struts 2 dispatcher filter.  WAS 6.1 is fully patched, and com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.invokefilterscompatibility is set to true.  We have tried Struts 2.1.2, 2.1.3 snapshot, and 2.1.6.

If you are running Struts 2 with Spring on WAS 6.1 and are able to help my client's WebSphere Admin get this figured out, lunch is on me! It may simply help to know others are successfully running this software stack. Call me anytime to discuss this further.

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Steven C Mitchell 
Byteworks, Inc. 

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