Ted suggested this solution to solve having a welcome page redirect to a
struts action.
I tried it but encountered an issue because my default action requires
tomcat-based authentication.
Ex. path="/protected/mainmenu.do"
The redirect to this action works for http://host:8080/myapp/ ->
mainmenu.do, however, the user is not prompted for authentication.
Presumably because authentication (handled in web.xml for all /protected/*
URI's) happens prior to the struts logic:forward activity.
mainmenu.do freaks out a bit, because it expects to only be seen by an
authenticated user.
Suggestions on how one might fix that?
Thanks,
Timothy
> index.jsp:
>
> <%
> /**
> * Redirect default requests to Welcome action.
> */
> %>
> <%@ page language="java" %>
> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic" %>
> <logic:forward name="welcome"/>
>
> Struts-config:
>
> <global-forwards>
> <forward
> name="welcome"
> path="/announcements.do"/>
> </global-forwards>
>
> You could also use "announcements" instead of "welcome", but I tend to
> standardize on forwarding to Welcome and put the specifics in the
> config.
>
>
> -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
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>
>
> Calvin Lau wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out the best way of making my
> > welcome page (index.jsp) run an action that will show
> > my annoucements. I have an AnnouncementsForm that I
> > use with announcements.do elsewhere, but I'm not sure
> > how I should make the index.jsp page run this same
> > action. Is there any way to map an action to this
> > page without making all other .jsp pages go through
> > the Action servlet?
> >
> > The makeshift solution I have now is to change the
> > name of my jsp file to index.do and to make that my
> > welcome page. This hardly seems like a good solution
> > though and I would think this problem has come up
> > often enough where there's something better. I
> > imagine many welcome pages have dynamic content that
> > requires an action to be run.
>
