What is a Slash Represents

[Alec Lee]

Normally we would expect an absence of slash in front of a path to means relative URL. In struts, if we use something like:

<action path="InputAction" input="retry.jsp"...>


what are the full URLs that 'InputAction' and 'retry.jsp' will be resolved to? What will they be relative to?

[alan do]

without the slash, the 'path' is relative to which ever URL you are accessing the action from. adding a '/' will take the start of the action to the context-root of your application.

the 'input' is relative to your top level JSP directory (webApplication directory, usualy is where your 'index.jsp' file sits). if your retry.jsp is inside the WEB-INF under the jsp/errors/ directory, then the input should be 'WEB-INF/jsp/errors/'.