Dynamically creating URLs w/o request?

I have a struts application that makes use of an email service layer. The email service provides a merge facility (via Velocity) and a delivery facility (via JavaMail). Typically, the application invokes the mail service within a struts action, where it has access to the request to get the rel

Re: Zammetti Download App

Since this is an ActionMapping subclass, then 'className' is the attribute used to declare it in the struts config, not 'type'; 'type' refers to the Action class to use. As written there, of course, 'type' could be taken less literally to mean the class of the ActionMapping. Unfortunately, the

Re: struts to generate html email content

Nathan, I briefly looked into using jsp for email templating recently, and decided that it was not the right fit for the task in my situation. Instead I ended up building a basic template merge facility using Velocity, and a mail sender facility based on JavaMail. I tied them together with a t

Re: MVC initialization

A bit late to the party, but... Firstly, I'd second what Joe said about PlugIns vs ServletContextListener: in more than one instance I've found that using ServletContextListener that does service/model initialization paid off when I later wanted to use the same service layer in a non-Struts web

Re: Where to store and how to retrieve Images for web app

My experience with this has been a blend of some of what's been said so far, with a bit of sugar on top. I agree with those who say that the filesystem and a stock webserver (apache) are the way to server images - and all static content, imho. (ymmv) Particularly since your image data is dyna