Point the hyperlink to the action specified in struts-config.xml
(suffixed with .do). This will call the action.
so your hyperlink will have href="/myAction.do"
and struts-config.xml will contain something like
<action path="/myAction"
class="blah"
...>
<forward name="/myJsp.jsp"/>
</action>
hth,
tomK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abhishek Srivastava [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: vrijdag 23 november 2001 9:35
> To: Struts-User (E-mail)
> Subject: Action does not get executed
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I have a menu, in which I put the a hyperlink to a jsp. When
> this jsp is
> displayed, some of the fields should have data pre-populated
> in it. This
> data which is used to pre-populate the form is fetched from ejbs.
>
> Now, I have written a struts Form class and a struts Action
> class and made
> correct entries in struts-config.xml. But when I click on the
> link and the
> jsp page is displayed then all values are null, because the
> Action never got
> executed.
>
> Is it that struts classes like ActionForm and Action are
> executed only when
> I do a POST from a FORM element? when I initially load my jsp
> there is no
> form, just a click on the menu to bring up the html.
>
> How can I pre-populate the data.
>
> one approach is that I write a simple java bean that fetched
> the data from
> ejb and use this bean in my jsp directly. But i want that only Action
> classes should make contact with ejbs for consistency sake.
>
> please help.
>
> regards,
> Abhishek.
>
>
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