As Ted wrote those methods should return Strings which will determine the
result to be shown.
String myCustomMethod() {
if(1)
return "result1";
else return "result2";
}
<action name="sample" method="myCustomMethod">
<result name="result1">/pages/course1.jsp</result>
<result name="result2">/pages/course2.jsp</result>
</action>
Also I do not recommend to define action name like
<action name="course!*"
since '!' is already a special character which specifies the method name
automatically
see struts.properties configuration file for more details about how to
enable/disable dynamic method invocation
struts.enable.DynamicMethodInvocation=false/true
but you can use wildcards in some other way like "course/*".
Note: using in result definition
<result type="redirect-action">course!list</result>
"course!list" will call action course and the method "list" will be invoked.
Best,
Aram
