[WW-2394] Zero Configuration is too limited - cannot eliminate struts.xml

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.11
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.8
• Component/s: "New" API

Environment

Java 5; Vista; JBoss 4.0.5.GA

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris Bonami
• Created: 27/Dec/07 09:51
• Updated: 22/Sep/09 18:40
• Resolved: 15/Apr/09 19:13

Description

Consider this struts.xml snippet:

<action name="customerContract"
class="customerContractAction">
<result name="success" type="dispatcher">
/jsp/s2/customerContract.jsp
</result>
</action>
<action name="customerContractFilter"
class="customerContractAction" method="filter">
<result name="success" type="dispatcher">
/jsp/s2/customerContract.jsp
</result>
</action>

The zero configuration at this time only has @Result and @Results tags. This means that:

• it is not possible to configure multiple actions that share the same action-class (or action-bean in Spring); 'customerContract' and 'customerContractFilter' both point to the same action class, only the 'method' parameter is different ==> Struts 2 should offer some annotations for this
• there's no way to express (with an annotation) that the Action-object should be injected with Spring beans (in a specific Spring ApplicationContext). It would be nice that such a feature would also be added to the framework
  This way, we could (completely/partially) eliminate the struts.xml file, or, in other words, make Zero Configuration really practically useable (which, IMHO, is not the case now.

Regards
Christian