Hello, We're moving from a Struts 1.x with Tiles development model to Struts 2 and Sitemesh. One thing we miss with from Tiles is the ability to back a JSP with a Controller. The Controller guaranteed that whenever a JSP was rendered, certain behavior was executed to prepare data for the JSP. For example, the loading of data for drop-down select boxes was often placed in the Controller. Now that we're not using Tiles we can no longer use Controllers, so I'm wondering if Struts 2 has any sort of equivalent functionality. I'm familiar with the Struts 2 Preparable interface, but I don't like this because prepare() is always called -- even on form posts, which in my case, is at best an unnecessary database hit (or hits), and at worst can cause confusion with what was actually posted from the page vs. what was retrieved from prepare(). If it helps any, we have a 1:1 mapping between an Action and a JSP, including a naming convention: MyFavoriteAction maps to myFavorite.jsp. Any thoughts or comments? Thank you!! -Ryan
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