I'm a Struts newbie with a lot of general hours in Tomcat. I want to advance my development with Struts 1.1 and Model 2.
In an applied Struts scenario I have performed the following:
Followed closely the suggestions for integrating Struts into an existing web application. I did do one thing that deviated, I moved all of the Struts TLDs into a subdirectory of WEB-INF (tlds/) per my usual development/deployment practice (I did correct the web.xml to reflect this move.)
However, I'm having a helluva time getting a very simple application to use Struts (I applying the Struts model to a development sandbox I use).
Step 1. Add servlet and servlet-mapping to web app web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
...
<servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
...
Step 2. Create the form for input
strutsSearch.html:
...
<form action="/webAppDev/actions/search.do" method="get">
...
</form>
...Step 3. Create the Action subclass
package webAppDev;
import javax.servlet.http.*; import org.apache.struts.action.*;
public class SearchAction1 extends Action {
public ActionForward execute( ActionMapping mapping, Action form,
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response )
throws Exception {
return( mapping.findForward( "success" ) );
}
}Step 4. Update struts-config.xml
<action-mappings>
<action path="/webAppDev/actions/search1"
type="webAppDev.SearchAction1"
name="noBean"
scope="request"
input="/webAppDev/strutsSearch.jsp">
<forward name="success" path="/webAppDev/SearchEngines"/>
</action>
</action-mappings>Step 5. Test
http://localhost:8080/webAppDev/strutsSearch.jsp
[click submit]
http://localhost:8080/webAppDev/action/search1.do loads but returns an empty page.
My success mapping "/webAppDev/SearchEngines" should read some request parameters and further redirect to a Search Engine, i.e. Google. It works otherwise without Struts.
What am I doing wrong? I must be too close. Everything seems to be configured correctly. A typo? A config?
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions, Tim
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