Struts 2.1.6 and GUICE
Google GUICE is a great lightweight dependency injection framework that comes with a plugin for struts2. Using guice 2.0 and struts2.1.6 on tomcat6 I run into a dependency problem with different xwork and ognl jars provided by struts and the struts2 plugin from guice: [INFO] +- org.apache.struts:struts2-core:jar:2.1.6:compile [INFO] | +- com.opensymphony:xwork:jar:2.1.2:compile [INFO] | | \- org.springframework:spring-test:jar:2.5.6:test (scope managed from compile) [INFO] | +- opensymphony:ognl:jar:2.6.11:compile [INFO] | \- commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:jar:1.2.1:compile ... [INFO] +- com.google.inject.extensions:guice-struts2-plugin:jar:2.0:compile [INFO] | \- opensymphony:xwork:jar:2.0.0:compile [INFO] | \- ognl:ognl:jar:2.6.9:compile This can easily be resolved excluding the older OGNL library from guice like this in your POM: <dependency> <groupid>com.google.inject.extensions</groupid> <art...