Another option is to output what you need (e.g. your XML) directly to the response, and then return 'null' from your Action to tell Struts that you have already handled the response, and Struts need do nothing.
-- Martin Cooper > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:26 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Not using JSP as the view > > > The Struts Action returns an ActoinForward object. The path > property of > determines which resource gets control. The resource can be anything, > not just a JSP or Struts Action. So if you had a servlet that > rendered > XML, you could forward to that instead. > > The Expresso framework has a standard option for using XML/XLS with > Struts. The Stxx extension also looks quite good. > > http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/resources/views.html > > Depending on what you need to do, another technique is to use the > digester to convert XML to a JavaBean (if the XML is > someplace where the > Action can get it), and then pass that down to the JSP. There > are also > tags for doing XML/XLS conversions within the JSP. > > http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/xsl-doc/intro.html > > -Ted. > > > Billy Ng wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I am thinking to repsonse the XML instead of HTML. In > Struts, how can I response to the browser without displaying > the JSP as the view? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Billy Ng > > > > > > > -- > Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US > co-author, Java Web Development with Struts > Order it today: > <http://husted.com/struts/book.html> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
