How to embed body of JSP and have it's associated Action populate form used in JSP?

[Les Hartzman]

That subject may be a little confusing, so with a few more words let me explain what I'm trying to do.

I have an existing JSP and its associated Action and ActionForm. This works on its own.

I now have a situation where I need to have the body of the JSP embedded into another JSP to add the original functionality to this new JSP and Action (no ActionForm for new JSP).

I have the new action forward to the original action. The original action unfortunately gets an unpopulated form. And then what is put into the form is 'lost' when it returns to the new JSP.

Here is the segment of struts-config.xml that may help:

        <action
            path="/example/notifications"
            type="com.example.connect.NotificationsAction"
            name="contactsForm"                                                                          NEW ACTION
            scope="session" >
            <forward name="success" path="/connect/contacts.do"/>
            <forward name="failure" path="/connect/notificationsNoDevice.jsp"/>
        </action>

        <action
            path="/connect/contacts"
            type="com.example.common.connect.ContactsAction"
            scope="session"
            validate="false">                                                                                ORIGINAL ACTION
            <forward name="success" path="/connect/notifications.jsp"/>
            <forward name="failure" path="/main/home.jsp"/>
        </action>

Originally I had the form connected to the original action, but when I was getting no data, I thought of moving it to the new action.

As you can see, the new action forwards to the original action, but in the original action the form is null. If I create a new form within the action, the data still doesn't appear when forwarded back to the new JSP.

Is this doable or do I need to duplicate all of the logic from the original action into the new one?

Thanks.

Les

[Mauro Trevigno]

I got consufused, but what are you trying to reach fill some fields in another jsp? you can work sending by request or by session if you will use over differents jsps.