Don't you have a submit button in your form? I think so ...
As the submit button has a property name just simply check for that
request parameter ... if you get a null the form was not submitted to
reach that action ...
The real question is: do you really need an action class to display the
page
I tend to use the same Action class for doing any preprocessing prior to
displaying the form (e.g. for populating any beans used by the form) and
also for processing the form input.
I distinguish between a fresh request to display the form and a form
submission, by putting a hidden field in the fo