I was thinking about this issue recently and wondered if simply mapping a do-nothing servlet to * would workaround this... I thought about trying it, but I only have tomcat and jetty handy for testing, and this doesn't seem to be an issue on either one. Although, a do-nothing servlet would probably solve the other problem of mapping welcome-files to index.action.
-Wes On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Struts Two <struts...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > I have mentioned this before in another thread that Struts2 is breaking > Servlet specification 2.4 in this regard, but have heard no comment on it > which means two things either I have a point or I am way off. > > In Servlet specification 2.4 filters are not supposed to be accessed directly > as a resource. And anything other than a jsp page need to have a Servlet > mapping in order to make it accessible (as per specification). > > Struts 1 had ActionServlet to which *.action or *.do mapping was done. This > sort of deviation from sped is causing some folks issues when it comes to > using some appservers that follow the spec and you have to resort to all sort > of hacks to get around it. > > --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Arthur Neves <arthu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Arthur Neves <arthu...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Servlet filter as front controller >> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> >> Received: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 11:57 PM >> With the filter struts2 can intercept >> all request. >> >> I think it's more difficult to do thinks like, the >> namespace struct with a >> servlet,i dont have sure though. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Unmesh joshi <unmesh_jo...@hotmail.com>wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi,Struts2 uses servlet filter >> > >> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsExecuteFilter >> as front >> > controller, rather than having a servlet act as front >> controller. Is there >> > any specific advantage of using servlet filter over >> servlet (as in struts >> > 1.1)? >> > Thanks,Unmesh >> > >> > >> _________________________________________________________________ >> > Great events make grand headlines – read them all on >> MSN India >> > http://in.msn.com >> > >> > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! > Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > > -- Wes Wannemacher Head Engineer, WanTii, Inc. Need Training? Struts, Spring, Maven, Tomcat... Ask me for a quote! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
