What about *.spankMe ? (Think I might have lost that client)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dakota Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [OT] Re: Hiding .do
I forgot this about Struts 1.2.4, James. Good point.
I think your thing with the marketing people is funny. While I am certain it was not so funny for you at that time, I would have liked to be a potted plant in the room for that discussion.
You can expect, I think, marketing people to have this problem, since programming engineers have the same problem constantly. The idea of a URL as an "address" rather than a code or a protocol to be read is constantly causing difficulty. You should have changed the .do to .HANKY_PANKY to avoid the seeming connection to extensions for files at all. LOL
Jack
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:45:20 -0400, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Yes, as of Struts 1.1, you only had to hard code the '.do' in a few tags. As of Struts 1.2.4, every struts tag (that needs to) will let you specify action="/myAction" thereby eliminating any hard coded '.do'.
Unless you are doing anything funky, you should be able to change to any
extension....and if you are _not_ using Struts Modules, you can go back and
forth between extension (*.do) and path (/myapp/foo/myaction) mapping by
simply changing the web.xml file.
I did this on a previous project, and it didn't go over as I had hoped
during a meeting with a few Marketing people. I spent the next few weeks
explaining that the app was NOT writing in .Net. A few people were smart
enough to notice the '.aspx' in the address bar and relate it to ASP.NET,
but not smart enough to really understand the relationship between the URL
and the technology behind it.....GEEEEEZ!!
-- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chaikin, Yaakov Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:32 AM Subject: RE: Hiding .do
> James,
>
> Is that really true?
>
> Are you saying that Struts custom tags automatically pick up their
> extension
> from the controller servlet mapping in web.xml?
>
> Hmm... I was under the impression that it was the other way around. > Struts
> tags produced "*.do" and you need to map it in web.xml in order for the
> controller to kick in for handling those requests.
>
> What about <html:form>? This tag automatically sticks ".do" at the end.
>
> Thanks,
> Yaakov.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:14 AM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Hiding .do
>
> If you've coded your app without hard references to ".do", then you > only
> need to change the web.xml file and all links/forms will be changed.
>
> For some fun, try changing to *.aspx and give a demo to your boss!!
>
>
>
> --
> James Mitchell
> Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist
> EdgeTech, Inc.
> 678.910.8017
> AIM: jmitchtx
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chaikin, Yaakov Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "StrutsUser (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:06 AM
> Subject: Hiding .do
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could someone either explain the steps or point me to a web page that
>> explains how to develop/deploy a Struts based app without the user >> having
>> to
>> see the ".do" in the URLs but still take advantage of the Struts >> custom
>> tags?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yaakov.
>>
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