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Struts 2 Password Tag Example

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Struts 2 s:password is the equivalent of input password input box in the HTML. This tutorial shows how to take the input and password from a JSP file and pass on to the next page using Struts 2 Action class. Lets see the example.

1. Action Class

package javabeat.net.struts2;

public class Struts2UITagsAction{
	private String employeeName;
	private String password;

	public String getEmployeeName() {
		return employeeName;
	}

	public void setEmployeeName(String employeeName) {
		this.employeeName = employeeName;
	}

	public String getPassword() {
		return password;
	}

	public void setPassword(String password) {
		this.password = password;
	}

	public String execute(){
		return "success";
	}
}

2. Password Tag Example

Input.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags"%>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
	<h1>JavaBeat - Struts 2 Password Field Demo</h1>
	<s:form action="Result">
		<s:textfield name="employeeName" label="Employee Name" />
		<s:textfield name="password" label="Password" />
	<s:submit label="Submit" />
	</s:form>

</body>
</html>

Result.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags"%>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
	<h1>JavaBeat - Struts 2 Password Field Demo</h1>
	<h4>
		Hello	<s:property value="employeeName" /><br>
		Entered Secret Code	<s:property value="password" />
	</h4>

</body>
</html>

3. Struts.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts
Configuration 2.1//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.1.dtd">
<struts>
<constant name="struts.devMode" value="true" />
<package name="textfielddemo" extends="struts-default">
	<action name="Result" class="javabeat.net.struts2.Struts2UITagsAction" >
		<result name="success">Result.jsp</result>
	</action>
</package>
</struts>

4. Password Field Demo

If you access the application using URL http://localhost:8080/Struts2App/Input.jsp, you would see the following output.

struts2 password tag example input

struts2 password tag example output

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