General style question

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Well, for anyone following my posts over the past few days, I now have a 
rather useful little file manager application working.  Just the bare 
minimums at the moment (file system hierarchy traversal, all drives on the 
system accessible, downloading files, deleting and renaming files and 
directories).  And I'm picking up Struts pretty quickly, which was the whole 
point!

I have a general style question though...

For the delete and rename functions I am returning a message to the user 
that gets displayed via a Javascript alert in the onLoad even, based on the 
success or failuer of the operationt.  My question is this... is it "proper" 
to return this message as part of an ActionForm?

What I mean is, logically speaking, an ActionForm maps to a form being 
submitted, so in a sense is an"input" object.  Is it normal to return 
someting like a message, or basically something outside what was in the 
input form,  in the same ActionForm that is instantiated on the input side, 
or is there another "output" mechanism specifically for such things?

I know there are resource bundles, but I haven't gotten into that yet, and 
even still there still has to be a flag of some sort coming out of my Action 
class doing the work to tell me which message resource to display, or so I 
would assume anyway.

In the end maybe I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed ot be doing, certainly 
it fits in with the whole Value Object concept of MVC architecture, but I 
wasn't sure if there was a more appropriate way to get output to the view in 
a Struts app.

Thanks again!

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