Filters and Action

Can a filter ( Servlet Filter ) extend an Action class ( Struts) ??
If no, which standards are violated ??

Thanks,
Abhi.

No. A filter canot extend a struts Action Class. Your filter needs to implement the Filter interface. You may want to read up on filters to get more information.

Well, actually your filter class can extend what you want, as long as it implements the Filter interface... Another thing is that it would be a bad design, because you won't get any functionality that would have a Struts Action class because it will be called (the Filter functions) before requests being passed to Struts and after they get back to the client's browser... So you better not mix things in a class that are unrelated.

Thanks for the info ppl