struts action for the root context

[Niklas Rosencrantz]

How do we define an index action with struts? The following is only action for /.do

 
  <action
      path="/"
      type="a.IndexAction">
      <forward name="index" path="/index.jsp"/>
   </action>    

 public class IndexAction extends Action {
    public ActionForward execute(
            ActionMapping mapping,
            ActionForm form,
            HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {      
        return mapping.findForward("index");
    }
}   

How do we create the struts action for the root context?
Thank you
Niklas R

[Merrill Higginson]

Sorry, but creating an action mapping with a path of "/" isn't going to work.

In order to provide a "welcome" file for your application, you must rely on the standard method of specifying a file in the <welcome-file-list> stanza of your web.xml file. Unfortunately, it's not possible to specify an action in this list. Example:

<welcome-file-list>
  <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

However, if you wish to go immediately to a Struts action, your index.jsp file could consist of only the following lines:

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<logic:redirect action="/welcome"/>

Then provide an action such as:

<action
    path="/welcome"
    type="a.IndexAction">
    <forward name="index" path="/welcome.jsp"/>
</action>

[ April 05, 2008: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

[Niklas Rosencrantz]

Thank you for your informative answers. For the time I keep it simple and keep serving root context from apache httpd and not tomcat until I understand the configurations and mod_jk completely. The rest is Struts 1.3.9 built with Netbeans.