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Global Action Forwards and Action Mappings

What is an action forward?
A action forward can be used to forward to a jsp or action mapping. There are two different action forwards. The global action forward and the local action forward. You can access a global action forward on each jsp or action class. A local action forward can only be accessed by the assigned action class.

What is a action mapping?
The action mapping is the heart of struts. It managed all actions between the application and the
user. You can define which action will be executed by creating a action mapping.

The diagram show you, how the application server manage the request of the index.jsp or a
non existing action mapping.



In the first step we create a new action mapping. Open the struts-config.xml, you will find it in the folder WebRoot/WEB-INF. Right click in the outline window on action-mapping.



Choose Use Case default and Action Type Forward. The Forward Path is the welcome page /jsp/index.jsp



In the second step you create a global action forward. Go back to the outline window of MyEclipse and choose Global Forward



Choose the Forward Scope Global Forward. For name use the same you have set in your default page. The Global Forward refers to your action mapping.




Create a object class „book“ Create a new class Book in the package de.laliluna.tutorial.library.


Create a getter and setter for each variable. Right click in your class, Source > Generate Getters and Setters


Create a form bean, action form and jsp
Open the struts-config.xml. Right click on Form Bean in the outline window.


Create an action mapping and action class
Open the struts-config.xml and create a new action mapping.



Test the application
Start the jboss and deploy the project as package archiv.




Call the project in your favorite web browser. http://localhost:8080/LibraryWeb/

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