In Struts, the hierarchy is, first the control will go to web.xml, then it will check for struts-config.xml in it, it will access struts-config.xml and then it will go into the action-mapping where it will check for the Action class and accordingly it will call the jsp class from the input attribute present in struts-config.xml and then forward to the correct page.Â
Struts-config.xml plays an important role in struts framework and it is used mainly to have an access to various Action classes using the Action-mapping element and then to forward it to appropriate jsp files.
