Exception if no form in my action mapping - why?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

When I set an action mapping as this (no form):
    <action path="/Logout" type="net.windward.store.LogoutAction">
        <forward name="next" redirect="true" path="/var/login.jsp"/>
    </action>

It threw an exception. When I added a from like this:
    <action path="/Logout" type="net.windward.store.LogoutAction" name="loginForm">
        <forward name="next" redirect="true" path="/var/login.jsp"/>
    </action>

It worked. Any ideas?

In my .jsp I have:
<html-el:form action="/Logout" styleClass="whiteBkgnd">
    <html-el:submit property="submit" value="Logout"/>
</html-el:form>

thanks - dave