Yes, that is another way to handle it. I never liked that approach since it meant those urls could be accessed directly and I feel everything should be behind Struts and its security. Besides, that approach ties your app to the Servlet API.
Touché... but I thought we were talking about STXX in Struts 1.x now. Besides, you could but the pages behind WEB-INF just like JSPs and avoid the direct access.
A few compromises: a different, unique syntax that doesn't look like a URL:
[jsp[Foo.jsp]] jsp<Foo.jsp>
or some other...
or a two-part naming scheme like
<forward path="Foo.jsp" handler="requestDispatcher" />
although more likely for backwards compatibility the "handler" part would default to requestDispatcher. In fact, maybe you could just treat "handler" as the application-scoped name of a processor adhering to some interface that would do the processing... then you don't even have to parse the path; just pass it as is to the named handler if it's not the request processor.
Joe
Don
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Joe Germuska wrote:
> I thought this was how the Velocity/Struts integration stuff worked already.>Could stxx's XML processing features be put into Struts 1.x? Yes, but >before that happens, I think some sort of url feature for forwarded paths >should be put in first. This would allow a request to easily be forwarded >to a different presentation system without modifying or overriding the >request processor. For example, a forward to a jsp page could look like: >"jsp://Foo.jsp", for tiles: "tiles://Foo.jsp", and for stxx: >"stxx://Foo.xsl". This feature would make it easy to have multiple >presentation engines, a feature we say Struts supports, but it doesn't >really.
I'm still uncomfortable with minting new URL schemes. Couldn't this be solved by deploying an additional servlet mapped to handle other extensions? This is how JSPs work as it is; if your deployment descriptor gave *.xsl to the STXX servlet, then requestDispatcher.forward() would give control to STXX just to do the view rendering.
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