How control goes from jsp page to web.xml

[Rajendra Prakash]

When i click submit button, how the control goes from jsp page to Deployment Descriptor ( web.xml)

[Prasad Krishnegowda]

When you click submit, control does not go to web.xml, it goes to the resource specified in the attribute action in form tag.

[Rajendra Prakash]

ok i specified like this

<html:form action="/searchTutorial">

then how control goes to web.xml
(from this deployment descriptor control goes to ActionServlet right?)

[Prasad Krishnegowda]

This means, the controller has to go to url /searchTutorial, any URL are resolved by web.xml.. so controller examines the web.xml and forwards to the appropriate servlet, mapped to url /searchTutorial..

[David Newton]

Not really; since this is apparently a Struts 1 application, the html:form tag will transform the action name into its full Struts 1 name, "/searchTutorial.action".

That is mapped in the web.xml to the Struts 1 action servlet, which normally handles all "/*.action" requests.

The action servlet maps the action name to the implementing code via the request processor.

(Exact details depend on which version of Struts you're using.)

[Bear Bibeault]

Please be sure to ask Struts questions in the Struts forum. I have moved this post there for you.