On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Suriyanarayanan, Senthil Kumar wrote:
> I'm new to struts and started using it (just deployed the struts-example). I
> wonder whether we could
> use struts out of the Web Application Archive, as an extracted one, without
> any reference to web.xml and just
> refer only the tld and struts.jar file. Are there any sample or simple
> application demonstrating the above.
>
Struts critically depends on several things that are only configurable
in the web application deployment descriptor (web.xml) file, including:
* Configuration parameters for the controller servlet
* The servlet mapping mechanism used to map requests to the controller
servlet (typically using the "*.do" extension mapping pattern)
* The fact that the controller servlet should be loaded at startup
time, so that the application resources are initialized correctly
* References to the various tag library descriptor files (TLDs) that
are used in this application
Struts depends on these features, so it is not practical to run a web
application without the web.xml deployment descriptor being properly
configured.
> Thanks in advance
> Senthil Kumar.S
>
Craig McClanahan
