See the description for the 'action' attribute at
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/struts-html.html#form
In short, Struts automatically append '.do' to the action attribute
('/login') of <html:form>. This is the part the doco hasn't explained in
details.
At 11:42 am 31-10-2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>
>
>I am trying to understand Struts. I have read the following part of the
>documentation relating to the Struts example application that comes with the
>v1.0 binary download.
>
>************************
>
>LogonAction.java
>The initial JSP submits its form to logon.do. If you check the servlet
>mappings in the example's web.xml you will see that requests for *.do files
>are directed to the Struts "action" servlet (an instance of ActionServlet).
>In the example, the ActionServlet refers to struts-config.xml for its own
>mappings (among other things), which is where we find the reference to
>logon.do:
> <!-- Process a user logon --> <action path="/logon"
>type="org.apache.struts.webapp.example.LogonAction" name="logonForm"
>scope="request" input="/logon.jsp" > </action>
>
>and a form bean to go with the "logonForm" action:
>
><!-- Logon form bean --> <form-bean name="logonForm"
>type="org.apache.struts.webapp.example.LogonForm" />
>
> In the action mapping, the path property tells the ActionServlet to forward
>a request for logon.do to the LogonAction object. The input property tells
>the LogonAction object where it can pass control to get information from the
>user.
>
>************************
>
>The problem is as far as I can see, the initial JSP (logon. jsp) does not
>submit its form to logon.do it actually uses /logon and since /login is not
>mapped in the web.xml file I can't work out how the flow control works.
>
>Is this part of the documentation wrong, or I am I missing something?
>
>If you think its wrong, can you tell me how it should read or more
>importantly how the control flow actually works?
>
>Thanks
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