Thanks for the suggestion Taylor, and yes I might follow that... In any case I just wanted to make sure that Struts itself does not provide any handle to Action instances !?
thanks again lirian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taylor Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, December 29, 2002 6:23 pm Subject: Re: How to get a reference to an Action instance > Action instances, like servlets, usually do not maintain state by > usingmember variables. Thus most invokations of their methods do > not depend upon > a particular instance, so you may just instantiate the action and > invoke its > methods. Of course, using the pooled instances maintained by > struts would > be better performance wise. > > Taylor > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lirian Ostrovica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 11:09 AM > Subject: How to get a reference to an Action instance > > > > Hi, > > > > I need to access an Action instance (I have its class name) while > > writting a Tag. > > > > I have seen that ActionServlet stores Action instances in a > 'protected'> variable (FastHashMap), and so far the only way I can > see, is to extend > > ActionServlet and write my own 'public' method to do the job. > > But of course I do not prefer to extend ActionServlet just for > that...> > > If there is any other way, can someone please let me know > > > > thanks a lot > > > > lirian > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>