mapping question

[Vanessa Monteiro <Va...@quality.com.br>]

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble understanding the mapping tags of
struts-config.xml.

I have one simple jsp form and one form and one action to take care of
it. In my /pages/form.jsp I have a <html:form pointing to my do/action.

My action-mapping is path=/action and I'm putting no input value. So to
get to my form I link to /pages/form.jsp or do I need and action to
point to the unsubmitted form?

Vanessa.

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Re: mapping question

[Mark Lowe <ma...@talk21.com>]

You can do either but i always use an action and forward to the jsp.

The only really objection not to routing your request through a mapping 
is that you expose your jsp's to the user. But this often isn;t a 
problem for some folks.

If you want to pre-populate your form then you can map the form to the 
referring action so you can mess with it before the user is forwarded 
to the form.

On 13 Jan 2004, at 15:58, Vanessa Monteiro wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm having trouble understanding the mapping tags of
> struts-config.xml.
>
> I have one simple jsp form and one form and one action to take care of
> it. In my /pages/form.jsp I have a <html:form pointing to my do/action.
>
> My action-mapping is path=/action and I'm putting no input value. So to
> get to my form I link to /pages/form.jsp or do I need and action to
> point to the unsubmitted form?
>
> Vanessa.
>
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Re: mapping question

["Daniel H. F. e Silva" <dh...@yahoo.com>]

Vanessa,

  As discussed a time ago on this list, it is considered a best pratice
to go through an action all the time. So you can decouple your view layer
in a way that makes your life easier. There are plenty of learning resources
around the Internet about Struts, but i'd like to recommend www.reumann.net
and www.ibatis.com. iBATIS is where you'll find a nice implementation of PetStore
sample application that could be useful as a starting point to your apps.

Cheers,
 Daniel Silva.

PS: If you need help during your day you could go to #struts_users IRC channel at irc.darkmyst.org
    You'll meet nice people and very skilled java and struts developers there.

--- Vanessa Monteiro <Va...@quality.com.br> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm having trouble understanding the mapping tags of
> struts-config.xml.
> 
> I have one simple jsp form and one form and one action to take care of
> it. In my /pages/form.jsp I have a <html:form pointing to my do/action.
> 
> My action-mapping is path=/action and I'm putting no input value. So to
> get to my form I link to /pages/form.jsp or do I need and action to
> point to the unsubmitted form?
> 
> Vanessa.
> 
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> To unsubscribe, e-mail: struts-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
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> 


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