I'm experimenting with Struts2 annotations and have some observations that I'd like clarification on.
1) When using the convention plug-in the book "Apache Struts 2 Web application Developement states" : <quote> The plug-in will scan ... in Java packages whose names contain "struts", "struts2", "action", and "actions", and whose classname ends in "Action". </quote> What I've found is that the package must end with one of those names, can I set it to scan for packages actually containing those names? Also in my configuration I can omit the Action suffix. IE: testAction.java can be renamed test.java and everything still works. ******************************** 2) Well this is not annotation related but when working with the struts2-json-plugin-2.2.1 I find it interesting that it needs getters and setters as demonstrated by: (Take note of the 3 commented lines near the end) /******************** START *******************/ package struts2; import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport; import org.apache.struts2.convention.annotation.Action; import org.apache.struts2.convention.annotation.ParentPackage; import org.apache.struts2.convention.annotation.Result; @ParentPackage("json-default") @Result(type = "json") @Action("simpleJSON") public class JSONExmapleSimple extends ActionSupport { public String name = "ken"; public String execute(){ return SUCCESS; } //If uncommented action returns {"name":"ken"} //If commented action returns {} //public String getName() {return name;} } /********************* END ********************/ This is a small detail I don't mind adding getters and setters the IDE makes it easy but I just find it interesting that this isn't consistent with what I'd expect based on the struts OGNL access: <s:property value="I_Only_Need_A_Pulic_Field_Now_Which_Is_Cool"/> ******************************** 3) I was wondering if it is possible to apply a struts package automatically based on the java package name. I wonder this because... @ParentPackage("json-default") can be applied to the java source package statement or the Class although when I apply it to the package statement I receive: "package annotations should be in file package-info.java" from my IDE (Netbeans 6.9.1) so if anyone knows if this is a Java standard great otherwise it's an IDE specific thing and of no further issue here. So simply that I found @ParentPackage which by it's application to a package statement and the earlier statement from 1) about the package name merely needing to contain the string "struts2" (among others) I was hoping that the last name in the package could be used to specify the struts xml package to which it belongs? It would be pretty cool! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org