Form Submission without ActionForm in Struts 1.3.

[Sherlyn Glory]

Hai,
I am a novice struts programmer.
Can we submit a form in struts 1.3 without having ActionForm and without specifying form specification in action mapping of struts-config.xml?


I tried to do that it gives the following error.

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Form bean not specified on mapping for action: "login.do"

could anybody clear my doubt?

[Tom Rispoli]

If you submit an html form using the URL patter that you set up for your struts servlet (probably to handle everything ending in .do) then the servlet will handle it and I think it will always try to find the action in the config file. But if you use a different URL pattern the servlet won't try to process it.

[Jimmy Clark]

Can we submit a form in struts 1.3 without having ActionForm and without specifying form specification in action mapping of struts-config.xml?

No, this is not possible.

Also, "Struts" is a name and the first letter of names are capitalized. This applies both in titles and English sentences.

This does not apply to the letters "struts" in the filename of the "struts-config.xml" file.

[Frank Truong]

The word 'optionally' in the api of an ActionForm must mean something I don't understand.

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An ActionForm is a JavaBean optionally associated with one or more ActionMappings.
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[David Newton]

No, you're just assuming the "optional" part works both ways: one can define an action form without associating it to an action mapping. One cannot, however, define an action mapping without a form. See the difference?

[Frank Truong]

David,

Beside optionally associating with an ActionMapping, what are the other scenarios in which ActionForm is used for, in Struts?

Frank

[David Newton]

No practical uses I can think of, but that's not the point--you *can* define forms w/o associating them with an action. Doesn't mean you'd *want* to.