My bad #1 is resolved...
I had left my jsp's in /WEB-INF/content not realizing that the java
package mypackage.struts2.otherpackage.MyAction
Didn't map to: /my but /otherpackage/my
The examples I'd seen had a package ending in "actions" and I'd made an
assumption.
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 15:37 -0700, Ken McWilliams wrote:
> I'm experimenting with Struts2 annotations and have some observations
> that I'd like clarification on.
>
> 1) When using the convention plug-in the book "Apache Struts 2 Web
> application Developement states" :
>
> <quote>
> The plug-in will scan ... in Java packages whose names contain "struts",
> "struts2", "action", and "actions", and whose classname ends in
> "Action".
> </quote>
>
> What I've found is that the package must end with one of those names,
> can I set it to scan for packages actually containing those names?
>
> Also in my configuration I can omit the Action suffix. IE:
> testAction.java can be renamed test.java and everything still works.
>
> ********************************
>
> 2) Well this is not annotation related but when working with the
> struts2-json-plugin-2.2.1 I find it interesting that it needs getters
> and setters as demonstrated by:
>
> (Take note of the 3 commented lines near the end)
> /******************** START *******************/
>
> package struts2;
>
> import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;
> import org.apache.struts2.convention.annotation.Action;
> import org.apache.struts2.convention.annotation.ParentPackage;
> import org.apache.struts2.convention.annotation.Result;
>
> @ParentPackage("json-default")
> @Result(type = "json")
> @Action("simpleJSON")
> public class JSONExmapleSimple extends ActionSupport {
> public String name = "ken";
>
> public String execute(){
> return SUCCESS;
> }
> //If uncommented action returns {"name":"ken"}
> //If commented action returns {}
> //public String getName() {return name;}
> }
>
> /********************* END ********************/
>
> This is a small detail I don't mind adding getters and setters the IDE
> makes it easy but I just find it interesting that this isn't consistent
> with what I'd expect based on the struts OGNL access: <s:property
> value="I_Only_Need_A_Pulic_Field_Now_Which_Is_Cool"/>
>
> ********************************
>
> 3) I was wondering if it is possible to apply a struts package
> automatically based on the java package name. I wonder this because...
>
> @ParentPackage("json-default") can be applied to the java source package
> statement or the Class although when I apply it to the package statement
> I receive:
>
> "package annotations should be in file package-info.java" from my IDE
> (Netbeans 6.9.1) so if anyone knows if this is a Java standard great
> otherwise it's an IDE specific thing and of no further issue here.
>
> So simply that I found @ParentPackage which by it's application to a
> package statement and the earlier statement from 1) about the package
> name merely needing to contain the string "struts2" (among others) I was
> hoping that the last name in the package could be used to specify the
> struts xml package to which it belongs? It would be pretty cool!
>
>
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