Is this still true? Aren't we doing this all with forwards now?
<quote href=
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/building_controller.html#actionmapping"
>
In the example application included with Struts, this feature is used to
define two
additional properties:
failure - The context-relative URI to which control should be forwarded
if the
Action class detects some sort of problem with the input fields it
received. This
will typically be the name of the JSP page from which the request was
sent,
which will cause the form to be redisplayed (with the error messages set
by the
Action Class and the most recent input values from the ActionForm bean).
success - The context-relative URI to which control should be forwarded
if the
Action class successfully performs the required function. This will
typically be the
name of a JSP page that prepares the next page of the conversation flow
for this
application.
Using these two extra properties, the Action classes in the example
application are
almost totally independent of the actual names of the JSP pages that are
used by the
page designers. The pages can be renamed (for example) during a
redesign, with
negligible impact on the Action classes themselves. If the names of the
"next" JSP
pages were hard coded into the Action classes, all of these classes
would also need to
be modified.
</quote>
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