Craig, I had XML editors to do that. I will try the Struts Console you mentioned.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig McClanahan" To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Subject: Re: long struts-config.xml file Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:13:56 -0700 > > On 6/18/05, John Henry Xu wrote: > > Craig wrote: > > > > > > "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.2//EN" > > > "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd"; [ > > > > > > > > > > > > ... > > > ]> > > > > > > > > > > > > &package-a; > > > &package-b; > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > > > where "package-a.xml", "package-b.xml" and so on contain the form > > > beans and actions for some logical subset of your overall application. > > > > Craig, thank you for this info. > > > > > > Craig, does this confirm with the dtd file? > > > > Validation against the DTD requires two things: > > * Using the DOCTYPE declaration (as shown above) in the outer > configuration file > > * Setting the servlet init parameter "validating" to "true" in > /WEB-INF/web.xml > for the Struts ActionServlet > > It doesn't matter whether you use XML entities or not. > > > Also, can you tell us the site link on Internet that uses > > hundreds actions? > > > > I'm afraid I don't have permission to do that. But let's think for a > moment about what the difference between a Struts app with two actions > and a Struts app with 2000 actions would be. There's certainly going > to be a longer startup time (lots more stuff to parse), and more > memory required for all the classes. But, at runtime while the app is > executing, the only difference this makes is how long it takes to look > up the particular Action definition in a HashMap keyed by action > paths. Even with 2000 entries, such a lookup is pretty fast (and CPU > time on the server tends not to be the bottleneck in most web > applications anyway). > > > It seems this approach the best in all the options we discussed. > > > > In fact, when I develop an knowlege site with forums in java. I first > > used struts, then I had some problems on configure file so I used > > another MVC approach. If I know I could do this way, I may stick with > > struts in this large project. > > > > If you had struggles with editing a large configuration file, I would > also suggest using one of the many tools available that provides a GUI > front end for this purpose. For example, a standalone tool that is > quite popular for editing configuration files is Struts Console: > > http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/console/ > > > Jack H. Xu > > Technology columnist and author > > > > http://www.usanalyst.com > > > > http://www.getusjobs.com > > > > (Both sites are developed in java and on open source). > > > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack H. Xu Technology columnist and author http://www.usanalyst.com http://www.getusjobs.com -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
