Business logic beans & struts

Question

hello
i am new with struts and am developing a application using it. i have some question:
1) Can one business logic bean interact with another business logic bean with out any intermediate jsp in between them?
2) How can we call methods of business logic beans using beans tags in jsps and then how to handle the values which these called methods return?
Help please.

Answer 1

1) Can one business logic bean interact with another
business logic bean with out any intermediate jsp in
between them?yes. just specify that int the strutsconfig.xml that the action forward for the action is to another action.. ie
<action path="/AircraftLogFileInsert" type="avbase.winairweb.struts.action.AircraftLogFileUpdateAction" scope="session" name="AircraftLogFileForm" validate="true" input="/pages/AircraftLogFileSummary.jsp">
            <forward name="insertsuccess" path="/do/AircraftLogFileList"/>
            <forward name="updatesuccess" path="/do/AircraftLogFileSummary"/>       
            <forward name="startOfSection" path="/do/AircraftLogFile"/>
        </action>In this example all request to /do/* are to struts actions
2) How can we call methods of business logic beans
using beans tags in jsps and then how to handle the
values which these called methods return?
ok this is acutally multiple questions.
To use the tags that come with struts you need to first declare them in your jsp file.
ie...
<%@taglib uri="winairweb" prefix="winair"%>
<%@taglib uri="struts-bean" prefix="bean"%>
<%@taglib uri="struts-html" prefix="html"%>Now you can use these tags. in your jsp.
<html:form action='myaction'>
    <html:text property='myBeanProperty'/>
</html:form>The only trick with struts is this. Your form objects are used to populate html form contents. hence the above example would use the form associated with current action to populate where i wrote <html:text property='myBeanProperty' /> with the contents of the form property myBeanProperty..
I know that wordy.. sorry.
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