This project allows wildcards to be used in Struts 1.1+ action mappings. The wildcard-matched values can then be substituted in the values of various Struts action mapping and action forward attributes. It uses the wildcard matching class from Apache Cocoon which is the default matching class used to match XML transformation pipelines.
The bottom line of this project is you can write generic actions that can be used to match multiple actions. Even the "type" attribute which specifies the Action class can have wildcard-matched values substituted to match multiple Action classes for one action mapping. It also works great for Struts applications that use DispatchActions or other generic Actions.
This project allows wildcards to be used in Struts 1.1+ action mappings. The wildcard-matched values can then be substituted in the values of various Struts action mapping and action forward attributes. It uses the wildcard matching class from Apache Cocoon which is the default matching class used to match XML transformation pipelines.
The bottom line of this project is you can write generic actions that can be used to match multiple actions. Even the "type" attribute which specifies the Action class can have wildcard-matched values substituted to match multiple Action classes for one action mapping. It also works great for Struts applications that use DispatchActions or other generic Actions.
For example:
<action path="/edit*"
type="org.twdata.struts.ScriptAction"
attribute="{1}Form"
scope="request"
validate="false"
parameter="/WEB-INF/scripts/Edit{1}.bsh">
<forward name="failure" path="/mainMenu.jsp"/>
<forward name="success" path="/{1}.jsp"/>
</action>
Project page: http://www.twdata.org/struts-wildcard/
I mention this project here because if people find it useful, I hope to add it to this project. Comments and suggestions welcome.
Don