"Mueller, Franz" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed the following behaviour:
>
> declaring an Action like:
>
> <action path="/logon"
> type="action.LogonAction"
> name="logonForm"
> ----> input="/Logon.html"
> <<------------
> scope="request"
> validate="true">
> <forward name="success" path="/showShops.do" />
> </action>
>
> I'm getting a servlet exception and as a result the Logon.html file is
> overwritten
> (the file itself is still there but the content is gone).
> If I specify (instead of the extension .html) "/Logon.jsp" it works as
> expected.
>
What servlet container (aned version) are you using? It may be that there are
problems doing a RequestDispatcher.forward() to a static resource. Could you
also post the stack trace that you get?
>
> Just wondering:
> In the code of ActionServlet I've noticed that the access to the actions
> member in the method processActionCreate
> (in the try - block) is not synchronized.
>
Currently, "actions" is implemented as a Hashtable, which guarantees thread safe
behavior for you without having to synchronize at the application level.
This would be safe even if a HashMap were used, as long as no thread was
modifying the underlying collection while the ActionServlet was running.
>
> FM
Craig
