Piwoni, Andre wrote:
I'm working on a large and complex web application. One of the things
that bothers me is a WizardAction with one ActionForm working on
multiple JSP pages. All of these JSP pages have hardcoded action URLs
that map to struts actions. I'd like to re-use several JSP pages form
this wizard in another wizard but it is difficult because of hardcoded
action URLs and wizard specific ActionForm being used. Best practices
that I have read recommends for clarity and easy maintenance, the
strategy for large applications should be to have one-to-one mapping
between JSP pages and Action classes. This makes sense and would make
it easier to reuse JSP pages in various wizards; however, hardcoded
action URLs, correct me if I'm wrong, have to go away.
I think you misinterpreted that sentence... It's saying one JSP should
always map to exactly one action, in which case it wouldn't be a problem
to hard-code it. But you're right, you often do want to re-use portions
of your templates/JSPs.
I can think of two ways I could implement wizards that re-use JSP page
with a separate Action and Form.
1) By going to re-used JSP page from two or more different JSP pages and
subsequently return to the calling JSP page that implements such wizard.
But what is the best way to return collected data?
2) By having dynamic action URLs in re-used JSP pages. Not sure about
details yet.
Well, if you need to collect the same set of data as part of two
different process flows, you probably want to just invoke the same
wizard implementation in both cases, but include some invocation context
about where you invoked it from. Then have your wizard return the data
it's collected to that action for final processing.
Also consider Tiles / JSP includes, custom tag libraries and other forms
of view reuse. Sometimes the best approach is to factor out the parts of
your wizard JSPs that you need to use in more than one place and just
have two (or more) views that use those factored-out pieces.
L.
It also seems that Action Chaining described under this link,
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2004/jw-0913-struts.html?page=4
, may be helpful as well.
Any thoughts or suggestions for implementing wizards with re-usable JSP
pages are greatly appreciated!
Andre Piwoni
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