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In Struts 1, What is the Default Value of Type Attribute of <action> tag?

In Struts 1, if the type attribute of the <action> tag has no value, what does it mean? Is there a default value for the type attribute that is used when it is not explicitly specified.

I'm basically trying to figure out what the following action does; as you can see it has no type attribute; it only has path and forward attributes:

<action path="/a/b/comp" forward="/components/d/my-comp.jsp">
</action>
Solution

  • The action that you have included above simply redirects from /a/b/comp.do to /components/d/my-comp.jsp. It is a shorthand for the following:

    <action path="/a/b/comp" 
        parameter="/components/d/my-comp.jsp"
        type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction">
      </action>

    So, for the action that you have included the type attribute is org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction.