Struts without tags

[Kevin Chara]

Just investigating Struts and have a couple of questions.

I have visited some sites which claim to be powered by Struts but view of page source shows no signs of struts tags or .do for the form action. Does this seem likely?

One more newbie question, does ActionForm processing require the use of the Struts form tag. I omitted it in the JSP and found the ActionForm subclass validate gets called but the setters are not getting invoked?

[Brent Sterling]

1) Struts tags, all custom tags and jsp "code" is executed on the server side and just plain old HTML (maybe with some JavaScript) is fed to the browser. You will not be able to see tags when you view the source through your browser.

2) It is easy to use something other than .do, and I am pretty sure it is possible to not have any extension on your URLs.

3) My guess is that you need to use the html:form tag for the other html tags to work correctly.

- Brent