Anthony, I use redirect to separate actions which do work and actions which display information. Let's say I have 2 pages/Action objects: DisplayItem, ProcessBid. The user sees an item he likes (say displayItem.do?id=123) and enters a bid. The bid will get submitted to processBid.do. Once ProcessBid is finished, it will redirect to displayItem.do?id=123 which will show the item and (at this point) the updated bid amount.
The advantages are these: * My "process" action (and any other action which does processing) doesn't need to chain the display action. * The user can refresh the resulting page without me having to worry about any form getting processed twice. (this is a real ebay problem, by the way, and kinda sucks when you're entering a bid at the last minute and need up-to-the-second updates) * The url of the resulting page is preserved, allowing the user to bookmark it or forward it if he so desired. (Not too helpful for the auction example, but think about "New Record" processing where you show a page which displays a newly entered record.) HTH, Hubert --- Antony Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I would like to receive comments on when to use forward and redirect in > action mapping. Do people use forward only. All the articles and examples I > saw uses forward. > > Antony Paul. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
