It may be prudent to visit this link first...
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0403_yu/0403_yu.html?ca=dnl-portnl
when moving from 6.0 to 6.1 you will need to update the JARs in the WAR with ones from the Struts samples shipped with 6.1
Thanks.
Tim