thanks Scott, that works but it sort of breaks the insulation of the jsp from the site structure:
<form action="Start.do">
if Start.do ever moves then all the jsp will have to change.
This would be nice:
<input type="button" onClick="<html:link forward="/Start.do" />" />
but you can't do that :(
cheers,
Alistair


On 3 Mar 2005, at 14:32, Scott Purcell wrote:

Did you get that in your JSP file? I found that if I use the html:form tag in the jsp page in which I use that technique that it errors.

If that is the case, in the JSP page, just use the normal <form name ....blah> and see if the error goes away.

Scott



-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:49 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Action without ActionForm


I tried that but I get: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean null on action /Start

Alistair

On 3 Mar 2005, at 12:54, Niall Pemberton wrote:

Just don't specify a form (i.e. no name="..." attribute) in your action
mapping....


<action path="/Start" type="org.test.Actions.Start">
<forward name="started" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/controls/started.jsp" />
</action>


Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <user@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:45 PM
Subject: Action without ActionForm


Is there any way in struts-config.xml to specify an Action that
doesn't
require an ActionForm?
I have:

index.jsp -> link to controller Action -> decides which jsp to display
-> start.jsp or stop.jsp


start.jsp and stop.jsp just have a form with a button that
starts/stops
a service. So I don't need an ActionForm

I tried:
<form-bean name="generic"
type="org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm"/>

<action path="/Start" type="org.test.Actions.Start" name="generic">
<forward name="started" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/controls/started.jsp" />
</action>


but after the "generic" form bean is used by a previous Action I get:
Cannot retrieve definition for form bean generic on action /Start

do I need a DynaActionForm for every Action that doesn't need an
ActionForm?



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