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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Jerald Powel <ge...@yahoo.co.uk> on 2003/11/27 03:07:27 UTC

ActionForms+struts-config

Hi,

      Does an ActionForm belong in the struts-config.xml mappings? ie:

 <action-mappings>
     <action name="MyActionForm"......etc?

Mine is placed here and functions quite well. But is has occurred to me this may be a bad pratcice, as it does not extend Action and is thefore not logically an Action? Or perhaps ActionForm extends Action? 

Also, for those using Struts Studio, my ActionForm is in the struts-config as described, and is thus visible in the 'diagram' pane. Is this recommended, or poor pratice?

Thanks for your help

J

    




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Re: ActionForms+struts-config

Posted by Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>.
The nomenclature here can be confusing. The "name" property doesn't 
refer to the Action or the ActionMapping, but to the FormBean "name" 
property. Earlier in the configuration file, there is a form-beans 
section, and a form-bean element with the name "MyActionForm". This is 
the class to which the ActionMapping.name property refers.

This is neither a good nor bad practice. Is the only practice. :)

HTH, Ted.

Jerald Powel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>       Does an ActionForm belong in the struts-config.xml mappings? ie:
> 
>  <action-mappings>
>      <action name="MyActionForm"......etc?
> 
> Mine is placed here and functions quite well. But is has occurred to me this may be a bad pratcice, as it does not extend Action and is thefore not logically an Action? Or perhaps ActionForm extends Action? 
> 
> Also, for those using Struts Studio, my ActionForm is in the struts-config as described, and is thus visible in the 'diagram' pane. Is this recommended, or poor pratice?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> J
> 
>     
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Ted Husted,
   Junit in Action  - <http://www.manning.com/massol/>,
   Struts in Action - <http://husted.com/struts/book.html>,
   JSP Site Design  - <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1861005512>.



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