[XW-911] XWork should report that Action does not Implement Action interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0
• Component/s: Configuration
• Environment: Current CVS version
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Philipp Meier
• Created: 28/Nov/03 16:10
• Updated: 18/Jun/12 07:29
• Resolved: 30/Nov/03 05:58

Description

If an action does not implement Action a XWorkException is thrown:

com.opensymphony.xwork.XworkException: Unable to instantiate Action, de.projectparcel.ebay.EOAImport, defined for 'eoaimport' in namespace '' – null

First the message text "null" is not nice, it comes from ClassCastException not providing a message and second, it's not clear that the error is caused by EOAImport not implementing Action.

Will attach a patch.