No ActionForm Bean Required

[Stanley Tan <st...@crosswinds.net>]

Hi all,

Let's say I have a link that allows a user to empty his/her shopping 
cart.  The link to empty the cart points to "/empty.do".  I do not believe 
this requires an ActionForm bean (PLEASE, correct me if I am 
wrong).  Nonetheless, I have specified an ActionForm Bean because it is 
required:

     <action path="/empty"
             type="EmptyAction"
             name="buyBean"
             scope="request">
         <forward name="success" path="/viewcart.jsp"/>
     </action>

The bean is NOT used and has nothing to do with emptying the shopping 
cart.  Do I just accept that it works?  Or am I designing the program 
wrong?  Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Stanley Tan

RE: No ActionForm Bean Required

[Tobias Meyer <t-...@gmx.de>]

Hi Stanley,

> Let's say I have a link that allows a user to empty his/her shopping
> cart.  The link to empty the cart points to "/empty.do".  I
> do not believe
> this requires an ActionForm bean (PLEASE, correct me if I am
> wrong).  Nonetheless, I have specified an ActionForm Bean
> because it is
> required:
>
>      <action path="/empty"
>              type="EmptyAction"
>              name="buyBean"
>              scope="request">
>          <forward name="success" path="/viewcart.jsp"/>
>      </action>
>
> The bean is NOT used and has nothing to do with emptying the shopping
> cart.  Do I just accept that it works?  Or am I designing the program
> wrong?  Please help.

You don't have to specifiy an ActionForm if you don't need one.
Watch the LogoffAction in the example shipped with struts:

<!-- Process a user logoff -->
<action path="/logoff"
        type="org.apache.struts.example.LogoffAction">
	<forward name="success"              path="/index.jsp"/>
</action>

Hope this helps,

Tobias Meyer