You CAN call JSPs directly, but it's not generally thought of as a good idea. If you need to display a JSP and don't really need any functionality behind it, you can use a ForwardAction, which is a kind of Action specifically designed to just forward to a JSP. This keeps your control layer involved.

In your case, you can do that and I'm pretty sure there's no reason you can't add the eMail address as a query string parameter, then access it through the request object on your JSP page. However, I think it's probably a better design to have an ActionForm and an Action to submit to, forward to your JSP and access it through the form as you normally would in Struts. Certainly will make your life easier later if you need to extend what's being done.

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Frank W. Zammetti
Founder and Chief Software Architect
Omnytex Technologies
http://www.omnytex.com

Shabada, Gnaneshwer wrote:
Hi,
Was wondering if calling a JSP directly a good approach in struts or should
I always go through Action/Action Mappings. I have a situation where I have
a result list displayed in a table and each row has email icon which when
clicked should display a JSP where one can enter email text and preview the
email. So I thought I could directly call JSP using <html:link
page="email.jsp">. But I also want to send the "To:" email address of from
the row where it is clikced. Can I pass it as a request paramter when I call
the JSP directly or do I call an Action instead ?
If I can call thru JSP, how do I retrieve that email value in the next JSP??

Thanks for your help
Gnan

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