Customizing the Web application configuration

To customize the configuration of your WebSphere Commerce instance, edit the WebSphere Commerce Struts custom configuration files, struts-config-ext.xml, which are included in each of the WebSphere Commerce Web modules. Confining customization to these files, in place of struts-config.xml, will ensure that your customizations are not overwritten during subsequent migration, fix pack installation, and other similar activities.

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The initial struts-config-ext.xml files supplied with WebSphere Commerce have no Struts resources defined and are templates ready to be populated. For example:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC 
          "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration
1.1//EN" 
         
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">

<struts-config>

       <!-- Data Sources -->
       <data-sources>
       </data-sources>

       <!-- Form Beans -->
       <!-- Global Exceptions -->
       <global-exceptions>
       </global-exceptions>
       
       <!-- Global Forwards -->
       <global-forwards>
       </global-forwards>
       
       <!-- Action Mappings -->
       <action-mappings
type="com.ibm.commerce.struts.ECActionMapping">         
       </action-mappings>
       
</struts-config>

Note: All configuration elements that you define in the struts-config-ext.xml files will supersede those defined in the primary Struts configuration files, struts-config.xml.