Performing Shiro Authorization Checks inside a Struts2 Action Class

[mmckenzie]

Hello,

I've been tasked with implementing the shiro authorization framework in 
struts2. 

Struts will ignore the shiro annotations which is expected . 

Example:

public class AccountAction extends ActionSupport {
...
        @RequiresPermissions("account:create")
        public String createAccount(){
                ...
        }

}

Is it possible to get configure struts to process the annotation?

OR

Is it possible to create a custom annotation that struts will process?

OR

Create a custom validator to check permissions.  Don't like this option 
since validation should happen after the authorization check passes.

OR

Is my only option to use an interceptor that will process the shiro 
annotations?

Thanks.

Mitch