[Webwork-user] trying to understand factory chaining

[Marc L. <dev...@lo...>]

Hi,

i am having quite a hard time to fully understand your ActionFactory
chaining.

Is it correct that when using defaultActionFactory, getActionImpl() of
all defined Factories (about 11 there) will be called?

Is it also correct that some factories do some pre-processing like
settings paramters from request into the bean while others
will only do their work when your Action Bean is an instance of
some Action (like PrepareAction) ?

I am wondering how my MyAction which extends ActionSupport can also
implement prepare() of the PrepareAction Interface. Since instanceof
is used, implementing the interface wont work here.

Another miracle is for example XMLActionFactoryProxy, which acts upon
a certain suffix (here .xml), am i right that when using this feature,
you must also redefine your web.xml, cause .xml requests wont
handled by webwork default web.xml.

The code looks very clever, perhaps i am just too dumb to fully understand
it in the first hour.

Thx for input.
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Marc Logemann
(see him @ www.logemann.info)