On 9/16/05, Stas Ostapenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi ! > I'm trying to resolve how to use servlet as a view with Struts. It's > very diffcult to find how to do it. I have asked at struts user > mailing list but nobody answered.
Under the covers, Struts is just doing a RequestDispatcher.forward() call when your Action returns an appropriate ActionForward. Therefore, you need to ensure that the URL defined in that <forward> element corresponds to a context relative path that is mapped (in web.xml) to your alternate view handling servlet. The Velocity integration referenced by Joe does exactly this. How to get ActionMessages and form bean objects when simple sevlet is > used as a view ? How to get particular error message string for global > message ? > Plese help. The answers are different for each of the things you're asking about: * *IF* you create the form bean ahead of time, it will be passed as a request or session scope object with a key equal to the form bean name. If you're using the standard view technology, the <html:form> tag will create this bean if it doesn't exist -- your alternate view technology will likely need to have that same functionality. * The ActionMessages instance is passed as a request scope attribute whose key is defined by the manifest constant Globals.MESSAGE_KEY. * Localized text for the actual messages is looked up (in the standard view techology) in the applicaton resource bundle(s), which are defined in your struts-config.xml. You can see how that's done by looking at the source code for the <html:errors> tag, and emulate the same behavior. Regards, Stas. Craig
