i hope it's ok for ate. i have same words from him: If you post form data to Struts it should (preferrably) be processed in an "action handling only" Struts Action. The form should post using an ActionURL (required by the specs). In the ActionRequest, the targetted Struts Action updates your Model (the M in MVC) if need be and forwards (preferrably with redirect="true") to an " view handling only" Struts Action. Within the following RenderRequest(s), the "view handling" Struts Action uses the Model to configure the required JSP rendering state/data if need be. Its very easy to use an include only Action mapping for that if nothing has to be configured: <action "/index" include="/WEB-INF/view/index.jsp"/> It is advised to use an ActionMapping even for those situations as it properly hides the rendering solution. This applies to all Struts applications in general and a strong recommendation from the Struts team too.
I also suggest you read up a bit on the Struts Bridge if you haven't done so yet. You should start with the README.txt in the Struts Bridge source tree. Although the README.txt is a bit outdated already (haven't found the time yet to write a proper userguide), it explains the above recommended flow of actions. And for more up todate information about the new features of the current Struts Bridge 0.2 version: http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/multiproject/portals-bridges-struts/features.html Happy coding, Ate Hi all, Please pardon my stupid question because I dont have much experience with struts or portals !!! I have gone thru the struts-bridge documentation that is given on the jetspeed website, and I have a few questions as to what would be the best way to solve my problem. I have two pages in a portlet. On the first page there is a submit button, and a textField. When user clicks the button, the second page should come up. The second page has a drop down which needs to be loaded based on the textField value that the user entered on the first page. >From the documentation, I think here is how I should do it --- I need to have two actions. When user clicks submit button, the first action (which is action-URL) gets called, I save the textField value in DB. Then redirect to the second action in the actionMapping. And the second action will be a render-URL, and that will call the DB and load the dropdown and put it in session and forward to the second page ?? Please bear with me if the question is very dumb :( Thanks, Amit --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
