Struts fileupload with Flex

Hi. I'm writing a Struts JSP app that will receive a file from an Adobe Flex app using something similar to what this page talks about: http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2007/12/07/flex-to-java-servlet-file-upload/
As you'll notice, after the JSP page processes the file, it needs to render some XML so the Flex app can tell if the process was successful. The issue: How do you write this in the context of Struts, with Forms and Actions? I've been tasked with writing in Struts and not something else. Thanks.

flexbite wrote:
Sorry Jeffry you lost me with the Firefox and Word analogies. Firefox is a container for documents, and so is word. I can't see how they relate to application building.
In Firefox, navigation is from page to page. In word there is once display with all of the controls embedded in it. This is a fundemental difference and central to the architecture of the respective applications.
What we deal with day to day are not so much content driven apps like CMSs. Most of the data driven applications we build have between 50-200 pages/forms. Each page is complex; a typical page has 20-100 objects that a user can interact with like fields, buttons, grids etc. A user might use 10 of those pages in a session, or 3, or 20. Pouring all of that into one flex page with viewstacks...I just cannot imagine that being easy to work with. Thus the question, how do you guys normally handle this kind of situation.
I think the secret is to not try and translate a page based application directly into Flex as though Flex was a html browser. The most impressive applications reduce complication and replace form based controls with more subtle controls that allow interactivity and visual feedback. Typically ria apps can provide alternate views and "pages" through the use of view states, tabbed interfaces, accordian panels and all kinds of bespoke panels.
My suggestion is that generally you should look at what you need to do and how you can do it differrently if freed from a page paradigm and with controls and interactivity that aren't available with html.
I can't actually imagine an application that would require 200 pages. What is it?
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