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# Getting Started

The framework documentation is written for active web developers and assumes a working knowledge 
about how Java web applications are built. For more about the underlying nuts and bolts, see 
the [Key Technologies Primer](/primer).

Follow along with these tutorials to get started using Struts 2. The example code for the tutorials 
available for checkout from the Struts 2 GitHub repository at [struts-examples](https://github.com/apache/struts-examples).
The example projects use Maven to manage the artifact dependencies and to build the .war files.


> The [Struts 2 user mailing list](/mail) is an excellent place to get help. If you are having a problem getting 
> the tutorial example applications to work search the Struts 2 mailing list. If you don't find an answer to your problem, 
> post a question on the mailing list.

## Examples

[How to create a Struts 2 web application](how-to-create-a-struts2-web-application)

[Hello World Using Struts 2](hello-world-using-struts2)

[Using Tags](using-tags)

[Coding Actions](coding-actions) 

[Processing Forms](processing-forms) 

[Form Validation](form-validation) 

[Message Resource Files](message-resource-files) 

[Exception Handling](exception-handling)

[Debugging Struts](debugging-struts)

[Form Tags](form-tags)

[Form Validation Using XML](form-validation-using-xml)

[Control Tags](control-tags)

[Wildcard Method Selection](wildcard-method-selection)

[Themes](themes)

[Spring and Struts 2](spring)

[Annotations](annotations)

[Introducing Interceptors](introducing-interceptors)

[Unit Testing](unit-testing)

[HTTP Session](http-session)

[Preparable Interface](preperable-interface)

[Exclude Parameters](exclude-parameters)

## Extra tutorials

[JasperReports Tutorial](jasper-reports-tutorial)