Thanks Got it working with that.... so is there no way to have an action forward to a servlet without having to configure it in the web.xml? or would this be breaking the single controller model (hence why you cannot)?....
GR -----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:35 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: How to forward to a custom servlet On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Greg Roll wrote: > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:50:32 -0600 > From: Greg Roll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to forward to a custom servlet > > May be a simple question, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to > configure my struts-config.xml file to allow me to setup an action mapping > that forwards to a custom servlet. We have a servlet implementation that > calls a crystal report viewer... the viewer take a request and response > object. Essentially, when the action is called, I want the servlet to take > over control of the window and display a report. Sounds simple... but I > can't figure out what the path should be to the servlet.... > > I'm using JBoss 3.2 with a tomcat 4.2.1 implementation.... > > I have the class in the /WEB-INF/classes/com/foo/bar/CrystalViewer.class > directory... > > I tried setting my action mapping up as follows but get a servlet not > available error... > > <action path="/ReportView" > type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" > > parameter="/WEB-INF/classes/com.foo.bar.crystal.CrystalViewer"> > </action> > > I've tried a number of different parameters.... > /com.foo.bar.crystal.CrystalViewer > /com/foo/bar/crystal/CrystalViewer > /WEB-INF/classes/com/foo/bar/crystal/CrystalViewer > > None of which work... > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?!?! > You have to define the Crystal Reports servlet in your web.xml file, along with a mapping for it (making sure that you maintain the required order of elements in this file): <servlet> <servlet-name>Crystal Reports Viewer</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.foo.bar.crystal.CrystalViewer> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Crystal Reports Viewer</servlet-name> </url-pattern>/crystal</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> and then your parameter value in the Action would be "/crystal" (the context relative path to the viewer servlet. > Greg > > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
