Leon, You don't need to specify 'input' and 'name'?
Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you need following: type="segev.CreateFormAction" scope="request" > In execute of CreateFormAction you can do your initialization. > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Eli > Segev > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 23:40 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: Attributes Initialization > > I am aware that my 'redirect' does not make sense. But, this is a > different issue. My question is why the initial action does not invoke > the 'execute' method. It has to do with redirect, but how? Having two > actions, one for initialization and one for submit will not resolve this > situation, since the 'execute' method is not called. I am still looking > to find out what I am doing wrong about this. > > index.jsp redirect to 'submit', which is defined as a global forward as > 'submit.do'. I can define it as 'submit.jsp', but there is no difference > in behavior. > > > > Wendy Smoak wrote: > > From: "Eli Segev" > > Here is the portion that defines the action: > > > > > type="segev.SubmitAction" > > input="/submit.jsp" > > name="submitForm" > > scope="request" > > validate="true"> > > > > > > > > (Why have three different forwards pointing at the same page? No matter if > you call mapping.getInputForward(), mapping.findForward("success") or > mapping.findForward("failure"), you're going to end up at the same place!) > > > Obviously this definition does not make the initial action go through > the > 'execute' method. > > I don't know what changes are necessary here. Any suggestions? > > If you're going to do it this way, with a separate Action for submit, then > I > suppose you'd need a PrepareAction to go with it. > > > The starting page is index.jsp that looks like this: > > > > > > And this redirects them... where? Is it submit.do or submit.jsp that > appears in the browser? (Since it's a redirect, the browser URL should > change.) > > -- > Wendy Smoak > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com