Well, I left out a piece What I had a problem with was the verbosity of struts-config.xml
For every instance of the form, i have to have a seperate, and almost otherwise duplicate <action> mapping. To me, this is redundant... *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 02/27/2003 at 9:59 PM Mark wrote: >Looking at struts-config i see an inflexible application skeleton that makes it hard >for me to do somethings, or maybe I dont know how the Struts way is...Can someone >enlighten me please? > >I have a Contact form. I want to be able to reuse this contact form, which has >standard information such as name, address, etc, in several places in my application. > >Looking at how action mappings work and all, the form's action field is constant.. >Therefore, if i have this: > ><action path="/Contact/save" ..... > ><forward name="success" path="contact.Saved"/> ></action> > >in my jsp: > ><html:form name="contactForm" action="/Contact/save"> >.... > >THen inside my action class I have the code to process the form, and forward to the >"success" forward. > >The problem i see here is, this contact form will always be processed by the same >action servlet, and forwarded to the same forward. What If I had several different >scenarios that needed to edit/view the contact data, maybe even Different contact >data such as User Contact, Customer Contact, etc. So that means that the "save" >functionality might be different, and the next page, the "results" might be different. > >Im befuddled how to handle this elegantly. I want to reuse my views. That should be >simple shouldnt it? I think im missing something. > > >Thanks in advance. > > >Regards, >Mark > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
