[Actionframework-users] using invoke

[Craig L. <cr...@be...>]

well, i just finally figured what i would do was create an application
component that had some methods that could be called to do any
url->context/session management before using the output-variable
elements inside the template element.  only to discover that the invoke
elements MUST be declared (and presumably called) AFTER the
output-variable elements.  i was going to try this:

<template name=3D"/displayObject.vm">
 <invoke component=3D"session" method=3D"storeSession(Context context,
Object $typeID)"/>
 <output-variable name=3D"objectList" component=3D"objectManager"
value=3D"getDefaultList($typeID)"/>
</template>

i have yet to figure out how to pass the actual name of the parameter to
the storeSession() method, but i get an error indicating that the dtd
defines template contents as "(output-variable*,invoke*)", the ","
forcing the order, instead of a "|".

is there a technical reason for this, or just a preferred way of doing
it.  i don't see any reason to FORCE the invoke elements after the
output-variable elements, if you put it before, then one just has to
assume that variables defined in the output-variable elements won't be
available yet.  if its after, then they will.  or am i missing
something?

cheers,

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