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No. Sometimes, it might be better for an Action to handle the request itself. For example, you might need to return dynamic content that would be impossible or impractical to create with a JavaSe...more

Yes. Once SSL is installed for your container, the Struts custom tags and Action Mappings will automatically insert the correct references so that all the page and image links operate in SSL mode.more

One way would be to subclass the ActionServlet, to to initialize whatever application scope objects you might need. Just remember to call the super.init() method! A better approach would be to wr...more

This often comes up in the context of authenticating users or with other control flow issues.  The direct approach would be to subclass the ActionServlet controller servlet, and override a m...more

In general, you can define a special member variable in the bean that indicates that it has just been created. On a manual create you would reset that yourself, but on an auto create it would rema...more

You can use either container-based security or form-based security to authenticate users. With container-based security, the Web browser will track the logins for you, and "replay" the c...more

See: installing the Sun Secure Socket extension keytool and the documentation for your container. Here are some common configuration mistakes: When installing standard extensions, install them...more

    To develop applications with Struts, you can usually just add the Struts JAR file to your Java development environment. You can then start using the Struts classes as part of your ow...more

This is still harder than it should be, but here's the drill: The bad news is that you need to hardcode the schema to switch from standard to SSL mode and back again. The good news is that you ca...more

You can create a new ActionForward dynamically: String path = ... create context-relative path to new page ... return (new ActionForward(path)); The path you calculate must be context relative a...more

Yes. Struts is committed to supporting industry standards. Our lead developer is a member of  JSR052, Sun's Expert group for developing a standard library of custom JSP tags. A primary design...more

There is a reset() method on ActionForm that is called *before* Struts does the auto-populate trick. The contract is that this method should reset all relevant attributes for this particular form...more

When you are compiling an application that uses the Struts classes, you must have the "struts.jar" on the classpath your compiler sees -- it does not have to be on your CLASSPATH enviro...more

The Struts package comes complete with a users guide to introduce people to the framework and its underlying technologies. Various components also have their own in-depth developers guide, to cov...more

The best place to download Struts is at jakarta.apache.org/struts. The nightly builds are very stable, and recommended as the best place to start today.more