Can I change the struts.xml file to anything else?

Question

When I'm going though struts2, I came through a typical question. The question is that can I change the name of struts.xml file to some other thing and make it work?

Answer 1

You can do that using your web.xml

<filter>
    <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>config</param-name>
        <param-value>my-new-struts-config-file.xml,struts-plugin.xml,struts.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter>

Also, if you use the struts.properties you can do something like:

struts.configuration.files=my-new-struts-config-file.xml,struts-plugin.xml,struts.xml 

Answer 2

You cannot change the name of struts.xml. You can, however, break up the Struts configuration among several configuration files which are named in strtus.xml.

For more details see this