RE: complex forwarding logic?

[Joe Germuska]

Depending on your appetite for the cutting edge, you may want to 
investigate struts-chain, which is currently in "contrib", but which 
is targeted for replacing the current RequestProcessor on a Struts 
1.3.x timeframe (which will probably begin in earnest shortly after 
the move to Apache TLP status is complete)

http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-struts/contrib/struts-chain/

The chain wouldn't solve your problem by itself, but it does expose 
the request handling lifecycle to much more flexible manipulation 
than is currently possible by extending RequestProcessor

This thread about "struts-workflow" from earlier today on struts-dev 
may be worth a look:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.struts.devel/18250

There has also been a bit of discussion about "Renderers" or "View 
Controllers" although I suspect that they may be aimed at somewhat 
lighter processing than your use case:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.struts.devel/18086

You aren't the only one who has faced this problem.  It would be 
great to provide support for more complex forwarding logic in the 
Struts core, if we can round up enough folks with different use cases 
to find a good general solution.

Joe

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