Many folks use actions for all links in their struts apps, as this way there's no exposure to the unpinning resources. I like doing this because there's always an opportunity to mess with stuff before any page is loaded.
One way is to use the old define what you're trying to do in a paragraph, underline all the verbs. Use this to define your actions. As its an existing app I assume you've already go you OM in place, and the nouns in your paragraph will hopefully correspond to you objects in some way. Get you forms working and laid out, and try and avoid thinking in steps, think about save such-and-such and there fore you can reorganize your app by changing action forwards, rather than touching the java (I implicitly learnt that from Husted's examples e.g. mapping.findForward("success") or failure etc).
I hope this is what you were looking for.
Mark
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 02:35 AM, David Thielen wrote:
Hi;
I am designing a store check-out process. The old software (pre-struts) had a check at the top of each page to make sure the information from the previous page had been entered. And if not, forwarded to that page. So if you bookmarked the last page and went there, you would get forwarded back page by page and still start on the first page.
For my new system (using struts), what's the suggested process:
1.. Something like that? Only to be real struts-like I would need to have it go to a page that immediately called an action to see if all data needed for that page was there yet.
2.. Keep a single url so they cannot go to any page other than the first, then the second, etc. In this case, going back in the browser and then clicking reload would take them back to the page they were > on.
3.. Just do the standard struts action when they submit a page and in that action go back to the first page for which I have incomplete information. So they can bookmark and click the "purchase" submit but it would then take them back to the first page of the checkout > process.
So, what's standard out there?
thanks - dave
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