First of all, you're better off asking questions about Struts on the "struts-user" list. Your first issue: You've mostly answered your own question. The automatic handling of form beans, both in and out of pages, is a very powerful tool. Your second issue: There are several ways to handle this. You could have multiple forms on your page, with separate specific actions. You could have a single form, with a single action, but using the "DispatchAction" or "LookupDispatchAction" to dispatch the handling to a specific request of your action. Look in the "struts-user" archives for discussions about those Action classes. Other important resources are the Struts user guide, and Ted Husted's site, <http://www.husted.com/struts/> http://www.husted.com/struts/, including the "Struts Tips", which cover those two Action classes.
-----Original Message----- From: Shalu Goel [mailto:shalu.goel@;mind-infotech.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:05 PM To: taglib users Subject: struts issues for multiple action and taglib Hello all, I am a new struts user...and exploring ... can I construct my web appliction around struts framework instead of using traditional JSP (logic and presentation combined) way of development?? My first issue is : What is the advantage of using struts taglib to declare Form and other presentaion related tags over std. Html?? Is it somewhere related to the way Form Bean handles request parameter and does front-end validations??? My 2nd issue is : Can we have multiple actions for the same jsp page in struts depending upon what button the user has pressed?? Then how do we define path and type in action mpping in struts-config and the jsp page itself?? Please throw some light??? Thanks shalu
