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What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And explain their purpose

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Submitted by: pradeepkmr18

These are the tags we can define

<data-sources/>
<form- beans/>,
<global- forwards/>,
<actionmappings/>,
<exception/>,
<message-resources>,
<switch-action>
<plug-in/>

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March 08, 2005 07:29:08

John

RE: What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And explain their purpose

The main control file in the Struts framework is the struts-config.xml XML file where action mappings are specified. This file's structure is described by the struts-config DTD file which is defined at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/. A copy of the DTD can be found on the /docs/dtds subdirectory of the framework's installation root directory. The top-level element is struts-config. Basically it consists of the following elements:

data-sources—A set of data-source elements describing parameters needed to instantiate JDBC 2.0 Standard Extension DataSource objects

form-beans—A set of form-bean elements that describe the form beans that this application uses

global-forwards—A set of forward elements describing general available forward URIs

action-mappings—A set of action elements describing a request-to-action mapping

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May 07, 2005 23:21:32

Suresh Pendyala

RE: What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And explain their purpose

It is heart of the Struts application.

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September 20, 2005 04:47:01

Hema

RE: What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And...

We will define formbean name exception types in struts-config.xml.Apart from this we will give action mapping which has actionpath type name scope and forward name.

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October 14, 2005 02:15:24

chirag desai

RE: What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And...

We will define Data-source[for database connectivity] Action Mappings[for action input and next output] Action Forward[global forward] Action Errors etc....

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February 24, 2007 14:04:44

sivanesh.a

Member Since: December 2006 Contribution: 189

RE: What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And...

The main control file in the Struts framework is the struts-config.xml XML file where action mappings are specified. This file's structure is described by the struts-config DTD file

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April 03, 2007 05:25:03

Thiyagarajan Nagan

RE: What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And...

Struts-config.xml will have form-bean definitions and action-mappings definitions. After getting the request the controller will look for mapping information in this xml file and lead to action class or whatever. Then the model(Action class) will process the request and return the Actionforward object back to the controller. Again the controller will look for mapping information in struts-config.xml and transfer the Actionforward object to the correct jsp page.

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April 04, 2007 03:20:37

Sony V George

RE: What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And...

We can say like soul of struts is Struts-config.xml.

The server will read struts-config.xml once only on the time of server starting. so server will know how and where to re-route to each and every request according to the flow. The Struts-config.xml have all the datsils like

Form-bean Data-source Action-Mapping Applicationproperties Global-exception Global-error.

Server will have the context of all these details.

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June 07, 2008 02:54:03

pradeepkmr18

Member Since: June 2008 Contribution: 25

RE: What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And explain their purpose

These are the tags we can define

<data-sources/>
<form- beans/>
<global- forwards/>
<actionmappings/>
<exception/>
<message-resources>
<switch-action>
<plug-in/>

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