All that being said, here's the answer to your question... Simply put, you instantiate the Action like you would any other class and call it's execute() method. That's about all there is to it. You can either disregard the ActionForward it returns, or use it, whatever it appropriate.
Think of it this way... If Action A executes and then calles Action B, for all intents and purposes, Action B acts like it's servicing a new request, with Action A, in a way I guess, playing the part of the Struts framework in the sense that it's delegating to an Action to handle the request. Kind of a weird explanation I guess, but the take-away point here is that an Action is just another class. Instantiate and call execute() (passing it all the objects the execute() method of Action A recieved of course) and that's that. I've done this, works just fine.
BUT DON'T DO IT! The other posters are dead-on... If there's any way at all you can avoid doing this, do so. You'll thank yourself later.
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com
Karr, David wrote:
It may not have been the answer the original poster was looking for, but it is the correct way to solve this problem. Action methods should only be used as direct responses to a single user action. Business delegate behaviors should be aggregated and reused by different actions.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jin Bal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The trick is to make your action classes very "thin" i.e. implement as much logic as you possible can in your delegate without violating separation of concerns. This way it becomes less of a problem making your actions fine grained and have a number of actions reusing logic in your delegate layer.
Prob not the ans you were looking but HTH anyway.
Jin Bal
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Mistroni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 12:32 PM
Subject: Struts /silly question
Hello all, I am sure this is a very easy question, but I cannot Figure out the solution...
I have a XAction class which is in charge of calling a business delegate, Get some data and put it into the session..
Now, I want to be able to call this XAction class from different action class (to avoid duplicate the code that loads the
data and put
it into the Session).
Question is: how do I invoke an action2 from action1, and
then return
control action 1?
Thanx in advance and regards Marco
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