pavan kumar

• Nov 23rd, 2007

 

It will return an error
javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean (form bean class name) on action FormBean.

Thrivenikanth

 Profile Answers by Thrivenikanth 

• Jan 10th, 2008

 

it will return a error

rammaheswara

 Profile Answers by rammaheswara 

• Dec 22nd, 2008

 

Nothing will happen at that instant. In the action, if we try to cast the action form and using it, then it will throw nullpointer exception.Regards,Mahes.

vinaymudgil007

 Profile Answers by vinaymudgil007 

• Feb 7th, 2011

 

Its pretty trivial that their will be a http status 500 error stating that the requested resource wasn't found.

The reason is:--
Its the job of the ActionServlet to create the actionform instance for us and for that it will look into the struts-config.xml file, if the entry in the strut-config.xml for a formbean is invalid [i.e. the class doesn't exist in first place], it will simply throw up an runtime Exception for us, which is pretty logical.

Actually I read the couple of answers above stating that nothing will happen, then I tested it by giving an Invalid class name in the struts-config.xml file. In the action class I am simple returning a value and nothing else.
As expected, it threw up a runtime error, which confirms my understanding above.



Thanks,
Vinay