you will need these libraries to build this project download this file : http://webwork.dev.java.net/files/documents/693/1806/webwork-2.0-beta2.zip then extract the following file : webwork-example.war [in above file] then copy these files into the 'lib' from 'WEB-INF/lib' [in above file] commons-logging.jar cos-multipart.jar jstl.jar mail.jar ognl-2.6.3-modified.jar oscore-2.2.1.jar pell-multipart.jar standard.jar velocity-dep-1.3.1.jar webwork-2.0-beta2.jar xwork-1.0-beta2.jar