1) You'll pretty much always have a valid session - the container will
create one for you if it isn't already there. What you need to do is
establish if an *initialised* session is there.
One way to do this would bet to, in your initialise session action, create a
session scope attribute to say so:
request.getSession.setAttribute("ValidSession", Boolean.TRUE);
To check that you have a valid session I'd implement a Filter
(http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/servlet/Filter.html)
which would check for the presence of the attribute. In it's absence send
the user back to the initialise action.
All of this pre-suposes that you *don't* have security requirements. If you
do then look into a security framework, such as container managed security,
which will very probably already have things in place to deal with your
scenario.
2) Don't know. Check the group archives
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&r=1&w=2) - breadcrumbs have
come up before.
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donie Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 23 December 2004 14:14
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: Accessing my form from an included page
>
>
> [Donie Kelly] Hi Guys
>
> OK, I ran through most of what your are telling me and must
> first thank you
> all for the detailed responses.
>
> I'm sure I need to explain my case a bit more clearly and
> please let me know
> if what I am trying to do is easier if I take some other
> approach as I'm new
> to struts.
>
> 1) I want to check I have a valid session so that I know the
> objects I have
> been carrying through the session are still there. It they
> are not, I want
> to reestablish them by redirecting back to some starting page which
> initialises the session.
>
> 2) Need to put page navigation in the header.jsp page to make
> it easy to
> navigate. I guess I will be putting stuff in the session to
> make so I was
> going to use the form to return the breadcrumb name. Is this
> a good way to
> do it?
>
> That's it really.
> Donie
>
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