Beginner question: form bean executing but action class not

[Gregg Williams]

Hi,

I have gotten my first extremely simple (2 web pages) Struts application 
working and am slowly adding features to it. In first page, you enter data 
into a form and click the submit button. This takes you to the second page, 
which displays the data from the form; and clicking the submit button on 
this page takes you back to the first page--very simple.

My problem is that for the first page (entryPage.jsp), its form bean, 
EntryForm.java seems to be executing, but the corresponding action class, 
EntryAction.java does not. I have checked two very good books and have 
checked my code against sample code, but i can't figure out what's different.

Below, I've listed the struts-config.xml and EntryAction.java files. I know 
I must be overlooking something incredibly simple. Thanks for your help.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts 
Configuration 1.1//EN"
                               "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd";>
<struts-config>
    <data-sources/>
    <form-beans>
        <form-bean name="entryForm" type="sample.EntryForm"/>
        <form-bean name="displayForm" type="sample.DisplayForm"/>
    </form-beans>
    <global-exceptions/>
    <global-forwards>
        <forward name="begin" path="/Display.do"/>
    </global-forwards>
    <action-mappings>
        <action name="entryForm" path="/Entry" scope="request" 
type="sample.EntryAction">
            <forward name="displayPage" path="/pages/displayPage.jsp"/>
        </action>
        <action name="displayForm" path="/Display" scope="request" 
type="sample.DisplayAction">
            <forward name="entryPage" path="/pages/entryPage.jsp"/>
        </action>
    </action-mappings>
    <controller/>
</struts-config>

package sample;

import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionError;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet;
import org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources;
public class EntryAction extends org.apache.struts.action.Action {

    // Global Forwards
    public static final String GLOBAL_FORWARD_begin = "begin";
    // Local Forwards
    private static final String FORWARD_displayPage = "displayPage";
    public EntryAction() {
        System.out.println ("EntryAction: Reached constructor method");
    }
    public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, 
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
        // TODO: Write method body
        return mapping.findForward(FORWARD_displayPage);
    }
}

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