Frank W. Zammetti wrote the following on 3/17/2005 10:19 PM:
I could be wrong here, so feel free to educate me if so... if I return a forward from an Action that is a typical forward that references a JSP, the request is essentially done being handled at that point, right? What I mean by that is that a not much else happens after that, just a typical RequestDispatcher being used to transfer control to that page. Looking at the 1.2.6 RequestProcessor verifies this is accurate (unless I'm wrong!)
No, you are correct and sorry for the confusion. I guess I was thinking more along the lines that your entry point to "Page 2" will not always be coming directly from the results of your Action that Page 1 submitted to. (At least I doubt that would always be the case, since you guys are aguing for extremely flexible approaches). That being said, you will usually have a mapping set up that gets you to Page 2 and that of course will use, at the very least, a simple forward action which is a controller.
Yes there is some over head if you have to forward to the setup of another action (vs going right to the JSP), but to me that's a small price to pay for having a clean consistent way of doing things - (All entries to X page go through X DispatchAction or even X SetUpAction if you hate the Dispatch).
-- Rick
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