Thanks Joe I have quit the idea of chaining actions. It is true that Struts was never designed to for action forwarding. My main concern was to have some common functionality independantly which i can do better by creating own replica of Action , ActionForm and ActionServlet etc . . and chaining can be avoided altogether ..
Regards, Sachin Hegde Software Developer Paradyne Infotech Limited Mumbai 022-38546711 ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:08:54 -0500 Subject: RE: help : chaining actions in Struts > I guess I'll post the obligatory "that isn't considered a good idea" > message. Clearly, you've gotten feedback from people who do it, so > I can't just tell you that it doesn't work. However, I can tell you > that Struts was never designed to for action forwarding, and by > forwarding from one action to another, you trigger a second complete > pass through the entire RequestProcessor cycle, which can sometimes > have unexpected effects on the request context. > > So, while action chaining sometimes works for some people in some > cases, Struts wasn't designed to do it, and bugs relating to it are > considered "invalid". > > There are usually other ways to achieve the same goal, especially if > you are being conscientious about putting your business logic in a > layer that is relatively independent of Struts and keeping Struts > focused on translating HTTP requests into business requests and > making calls against your business layer. > > Note also that the Struts RequestProcessor is evolving into a more > flexibly composable "chain" model of request processing. Once that > code is merged into the main branch of development, you may find > that it provides a way that you could line up multiple action > executions without triggering all of the pre-processing that comes > before the action execution. This isn't something anyone has > tackled yet, but the basic changes to the design make it something > much more readily achievable. > > The Chain-based request processor is currently in Struts contrib, > and is thoroughly usable already, and Don Brown has said he may > find time this weekend (or soon) to change the development Struts > code to use it as the standard processing mechanism. > > Joe > > At 3:40 PM +0530 10/15/04, sachin wrote: > > > Have the first action's success forward on to the next action in > >> struts config. > > > >but will the same bean be populated ? > > > >Regards , > >sachin > > > > > >---------- Original Message ----------- > >From: "McCormack, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:42:04 +0100 > >Subject: RE: help : chaining actions in Struts > > > >> Have the first action's success forward on to the next action in > >> struts config. > >> > >> Chris McCormack > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: sachin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: 15 October 2004 10:46 > >> To: Struts Users Mailing List > >> Subject: help : chaining actions in Struts > >> > >> hi all , > >> > >> i have a common bean , which i need to use for two Actions classes > >> which will execute one after another and populate the bean. > >> > >> Now how can i configure the struts so that both the action will run > >> one after another ? > >> > >> Any help is welcome . . > >> > >> Regards, > >> Sachin Hegde > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> *********************************************** > >> This e-mail and its attachments are confidential > >> and are intended for the above named recipient > >> only. 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