We will need to create a New Project and add the Struts Framework along the way. Here's how.

Right-click on the Projects window, select New Project:

IDE adds libraries, configuration files, and opens the welcomeStrutsPage.jsp in the Editor.

The steps for creating the user registration page are as follows:

With register-user-page.jsp open in the editor, add the HTML and bean taglibs right after the @page:

<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>

And replace the following tag:

<h1>Hello World!</h1>

With:

<html:form action="/register">
<table border="0">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Username:</th>
<th><html:text property="username" /></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Password:</td>
<td><html:password property="password" /> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>E-mail</td>
<td><html:text property="email" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Country:</td>
<td>
<html:select property="country">
<html:option value="brazil">Brazil</html:option>
<html:option value="finland">Finland</html:option>
<html:option value="india">India</html:option>
<html:option value="usa">USA</html:option>
</html:select>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<html:submit value="Register" />
</html:form>

Next step is to create the success page:

With success.jsp open in the editor, add the bean taglib to the page right after the @page:

<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>

And replace the following tag:

<h1>Hello World!</h1>

With:

User <bean:write name="RegisterForm" property="username" /> successfully created.

Since it is a Struts project, we will need to add an ActionForm to our project that will be named as RegisterForm.

Finally, we will tie everything together by creating the Struts Action.

The last detail to add is a forward tag in struts-config.xml.

Open struts-config.xml:

Back on the Project window, navigate to the register-user-page.jsp, right-click on it, and select Run.

In this recipe, we have created a simple case of registering a user.

No database is involved, just a simple way to show how NetBeans handles the very basics of Struts.

In the user registration page, we have the first usage of Struts components in the web page. The components in this page come from the HTML taglib.

<html:form action="/register"> defines which action is being pointed at after the<html:submit> is used.

A combination of<html:text>, <html:password>, <html:select>, and<html:submit> are used. The names, by themselves, are very descriptive:

We proceed to create our success page. This page confirms that everything went well with the registration of our user, and prints the user name on the screen.

For this to happen, we need to use the bean taglib. This tag requires the ActionForm and the property to be printed:

<bean:write name="RegisterForm" property="username" />

Readers would have to create their own implementation of Struts ActionForm class/interface. This implementation should contain a few simple String-based properties. NetBeans can help with this by automatically generating getters and setters.

The set is complete by using the IDE to create the action class. The IDE generates the class, adds a temporary implementation of the execute method and inserts an action tag to the sturts-config.xml.

Finally, with the IDE's help, we edit struts-config.xml once more to add the forward tag with a neat GUI interface.