Predeep, I think you want to move your mapping from the web.xml to struts-config.xml so your struts-config.xml has an action-mapping tag like this:
<action-mappings type="com.wiley.EmployeesActionMapping"> ... </action-mappings> In Struts 1.2.X and onward, setting mapping, forward, and many other classes will not work. I had a discussion on the list about it about 2 months ago with Niall including replies. Here is the last posting to that thread on a discussion site (it also includes previous replies and some full details after my remarks): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=109565277600317&w=2 In case you're wondering, I read a posting from a user trying to set those things globally so I tried it and included example configuration details in that thread on how to do it with ActionForwards. It shouldn't be much different doing it for ActionMappings. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy Hi I am pradeep Jain . Currently I am using Struts 1.2.X . But I am facing some problems. 1.I am trying to create my own action mapping but in Action class when ever I am try to use that it is giving me class cast exception . following is my web.xml <servlet> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>debug</param-name> <param-value>5</param-value> </init-param> <init-param>( this is custome action mapping class) <param-name>mapping</param-name> <param-value>com.wiley.EmployeesActionMapping</param-value> </init-param> <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> But when in my action class ... public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,ActionForm form,HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException { ActionMapping mapping1 = mapping; System.out.println("***********mapping .getclass"+mapping.getClass()); EmployeesActionMapping employeesMapping =(EmployeesActionMapping)mapping;( Here I am getting class cast exception ) ........... } Please help in in resloving this .. Thanks & regards Pradeep Jain Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/10/2004 12:55 PM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy Well, you could do that with chain now by writing an action that deferred handling to a particular chain, but I do like the sitemap concept as evidenced by my porting of their wildcard matching to Struts. It might be interesting for an alternate struts-config format that does allow us to stick chain commands right in struts-config rather than having them defined somewhere else and have it look kinda like ant: <action-mapping path="edit*"> <authorize type="{1}" /> <retrieveFormData type="{1}" /> <generateJsp path="/jsp/{1}.jsp" forward="success" /> </action-mapping> Personally, however, I prefer something like struts-flow which allows workflows to be defined in a more powerful scripting language. These XML mappings work great for simple cases, but don't really for the more complex workflows you'd find in a real application. I think that was one of the main reasons why Struts developers insist on one Action per request as Java is a much more capable workflow language than XML. Don On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:25:57 +0200, Emmanouil Batsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don Brown wrote: > > >Well, pipelines won't work for Struts in the strictest sense, as they > >rely on SAX and Struts isn't an XML transformation framework. > > > > > > Struts could use a sitemap thingy to pass a request along actions > (without having the action choose an ActionForward). I guess that could > work by consulting the sitemap object like > mapping.findForward(sitemap.getForward(request)); > > Manos > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
