Hi Frank, Thanks for the explanation, I realized shortly afterwards that there <welcome-file-list> in the web.xml which pertains to the higher level of the application/servlet... and thus like you siad unless an action is in the mappings file the RequestProcessor wouldnt know what to do (unless there is an action with the unkown attribute set to true).
My questioning about processCachedMessages was because, well at atleast in PHP, that the session storage container is used while maintaining state across multiple requests, i.e. the script loads, stores the info in the session container and either redirects the client (via http headers) or is available on their subseqent requests (links)... whereas, now, if an internal forward is happening, reloading the session messages would be a little redundant since the internal forwards are all part of the same initial request/state.... but I think all this will work itself out while find my feet using this mvc (in php)... I think the <welcome-file-list> sort of clarifies things, and nullifies the loop question... Thanks for helping me understand... Regards, Greg. -- devosc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]