The Struts Configuration File

The Struts configuration file used for this application is shown in the sections below. This file contains a number of entries which instruct Struts on how to map requests to servlets. Since this example does not use any Struts form-beans, so there are no entries in that section and it is not shown here. There are however two definitions for global-forwards which map a URI to the path specified as shown next.

Struts Configuration File
<global-forwards>

   <forward   name="logon"  path="/logon.jsp"/>
   <forward   name="index"  path="/index.jsp"/>

</global-forwards>

The action-mapping section of the configuration file is where we derive value from using Struts in this application. Even for this relatively simple example, you ...

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