> I am new to Struts 2 and use annotation driven validations and they are
> working correctly. The only issue I have is that the validations are
> performed even upon navigating to my action for the first time.
>
> Ie All the fields on the web form are initially blank and also all my error
> msgs from several @RequiredString fields are also displayed.
>
> Is there is simple way to prevent error msgs when the action is initially
> navigated to?
>
If you have CRUD style actions you annotate the action methods that don't
need validation with @SkipValidation.
For example my CRUD actions might have doNew() , doCreate(), doEdit(), and
doUpdate() methods and I will add the @SkipValidation to doNew() and
doEdit() like this:
@SkipValidation
public String doNew(){...}
public String doCreate(){...}
@SkipValidation
public String doEdit(){...}
public String doUpdate(){...}
