Struts Action Scripting

[gf...@fys.com.ar]

Just found this at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/strutsscripting

>From their Overview:


The ScriptedAction is a Struts Action class that uses BSF (Bean Scripting 
Framework) to enable Struts developers to create Struts Actions in the 
language of their choice. Supported languages include: JavaScript, Jython, 
Jacl, ActiveScript, PerlScript and others.

When specifying the type of an action, the ScriptedAction is specified and 
the parameter attribute is used to tell the ScriptedAction which script to 
load and execute. The ScriptedAction uses BSF to setup the script runtime 
environment with declared variables for the arguments typically passed to 
the execute method of an action, as well as a context object that provides 
a way for the script to specify the forward for the action to return.

Currently, there is some function for customizing the execution 
environment of scripts to make the scripting of Actions easier and 
friendlier by allowing the definition of predefined variables and 
functions available to all scripts. Future plans include an extension 
mechanism to allow for the registration of new BSF engines and file 
extensions for different languages.

Cheers,
Gustavo