I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I created an application that consists of two separate web apps. The first one is a channel application that handles user interface and basic edits. It forwards to a second application that has the business logic. The thinking here is that other channels could share the back-end application's business logic.
I did this by extending the RequestProcessor to look for a specific forward name. If it sees "common_" at the beginning, it gets the context of the backend application and forwards it there. If it sees "reply_" it pulls some values out of the request to determine to where it should forward. The channel is responsible for setting these values appropriately. Scott Mulligan -----Original Message----- From: Craig Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:48 AM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Framework and application webapps I have been using struts for a while now and have built up a collection of common code/forms/actions (stuff like log on, log off, administer news items, etc). Everytime I create a new web application that builds on top of these, I seem to be copying all the form/action definitions from my framework into the application's code hierarchy (and struts-config.xml). Ideally, I would like to keep the framework code and form/action definitions in my framework WebApp. Then in my ApplicationX WebApp, I somehow reference the framework WebApp and "inherit" the tiles/forms/actions. I know that the web.xml allows me to specify multiple struts-config.xml files, but can I get it to work across WebApps? Any pointers or advice would be much appreciated. Many thanks. -- Craig Edwards --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
