Greetings, 

Firstly, I apologize if i display an inordinate amount of ignorance.  However, 
after looking for quite some time, I'm failing to find the answer to my 
question, and practical application seems to point at there being either 
something obvious I'm missing, or a flaw in the documentation, or similar. 

Some Notes: 
Logs are what I'm pulling out of NetBeans from the Apache tomcat logs. 
I'm using struts-2.1.8.1,
I've not changed the properties file for struts.

Given the struts.xml snippet: 
       <action name="*" method="{1}" class="web.BaseView">
           <result name="success" type="tiles">Welcome</result>
           <result name="test" type="tiles">test</result>
       </action>

       <action name="Project*" method="{1}" class="web.ProjectView">
           <result name="none" type="tiles">NoProject</result>
       </action>

I generate the log results as follows:

20676 [http-8084-2] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler  - Entering 
nullPropertyValue 
[target=[com.opensymphony.xwork2.defaulttextprovi...@61b59919], property=struts]
20682 [http-8084-2] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler  - Entering 
nullPropertyValue 
[target=[com.opensymphony.xwork2.defaulttextprovi...@61b59919], property=struts]
20689 [http-8084-2] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionProxy  - 
Creating an DefaultActionProxy for namespace / and action name ProjectStatus
20689 [http-8084-2] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.AbstractMatcher  
- Attempting to match 'ProjectStatus' to a wildcard pattern, 3 available
20689 [http-8084-2] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.AbstractMatcher  
- Value matches pattern '*'
20703 [http-8084-2] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.I18nInterceptor  
- intercept '//ProjectStatus' { 
20704 [http-8084-2] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.I18nInterceptor  
- applied invocation context locale=en
20704 [http-8084-2] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.I18nInterceptor  
- before Locale=en
20735 [http-8084-2] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler  - Entering 
nullPropertyValue [target=[web.basev...@55d7fc31, 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.defaulttextprovi...@61b59919], property=struts]
20765 [http-8084-2] DEBUG org.apache.struts2.interceptor.FileUploadInterceptor  
- Bypassing //ProjectStatus
20765 [http-8084-2] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.StaticParametersInterceptor  - Setting 
static parameters {}
20767 [http-8084-2] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.ParametersInterceptor  - Setting params NONE
20767 [http-8084-2] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.ParametersInterceptor  - Setting params 


As you can see the "*" is matched as opposed to "Project*", which seems to go 
against the 'last one wins' as is described by the struts documentation on 
http://struts.apache.org/2.1.8.1/docs/wildcard-mappings.html

Now, if I reverse the order of the actions in struts.xml I get the following 
result: 

13176 [http-8084-1] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler  - Entering 
nullPropertyValue 
[target=[com.opensymphony.xwork2.defaulttextprovi...@18a4edc4], property=struts]
13176 [http-8084-1] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler  - Entering 
nullPropertyValue 
[target=[com.opensymphony.xwork2.defaulttextprovi...@18a4edc4], property=struts]
13176 [http-8084-1] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionProxy  - 
Creating an DefaultActionProxy for namespace / and action name ProjectStatus
13176 [http-8084-1] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.AbstractMatcher  
- Attempting to match 'ProjectStatus' to a wildcard pattern, 3 available
13176 [http-8084-1] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.AbstractMatcher  
- Value matches pattern 'Project*'
13177 [http-8084-1] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.I18nInterceptor  
- intercept '//ProjectStatus' { 
13177 [http-8084-1] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.I18nInterceptor  
- applied invocation context locale=en
13177 [http-8084-1] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler  - Entering 
nullPropertyValue [target=[web.projectv...@63ad6884, 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.defaulttextprovi...@18a4edc4], property=locale]
13177 [http-8084-1] DEBUG com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.I18nInterceptor  
- before Locale=null
13177 [http-8084-1] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler  - Entering 
nullPropertyValue [target=[web.projectv...@63ad6884, 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.defaulttextprovi...@18a4edc4], property=struts]
13178 [http-8084-1] DEBUG org.apache.struts2.interceptor.FileUploadInterceptor  
- Bypassing //ProjectStatus
13178 [http-8084-1] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.StaticParametersInterceptor  - Setting 
static parameters {}
13179 [http-8084-1] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.ParametersInterceptor  - Setting params NONE
13179 [http-8084-1] DEBUG 
com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.ParametersInterceptor  - Setting params

Here, the "Project*" action is being matched as opposed to "*" despite being 
first.

I'm failing to see how 'last one wins' 

Regards, 

Robert

p.s. my apologies if there's multi-post here, I had a moment or so of user fail.

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