> Everything works beautifully until you try and mess the query string > for e.g /edit.do?submit=initchanged&key=10 > there is no mapping for initx, hence there is no method name and null is > passed into the > return dispatchMethod(mapping, form, request, response, methodName) > which finally calls getMethod(String name, Class[] parameterTypes) > The end result is that application shuts down with VM error
This has been discussed before and I believe the general consensus is that there's a bug in Resin. If you try the same thing in Tomcat, you will only get an exception. Still, I don't like the behavior of LookupDispatchAction so I override the execute() method in which I examine the request parameters. If the "action" is present, I just call super.execute(). Otherwise I try to figure out what would be appropriate (add? edit?) before giving up and throwing an exception. I would like to add a "default" attribue to the tag in struts-config so you can specify which method to call if the parameter isn't present in the request. In short, I don't think that VM Error is the fault of Struts. -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University PA Information Resources Management
