cannot see index.jsp in struts

[pep grifell]

Hi!
I'm using struts 1.1. I have a index.jsp page shows all the categories of books I have in a DB. In struts-config.xml I have :
<action path="/index"
type="com.mtp.store.action.CategoryAction"
scope="request"
validate="false">
>
<forward name="Success" path="/index.jsp"/>
</action>
and in web.xml :
...
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>application</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/ApplicationResources</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>2</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>detail</param-name>
<param-value>2</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>validate</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<!-- Action Servlet Mapping -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/index.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
...
so when I call index.jsp, I would like that CategoryAction access the db and return a vector of Strings. In CategoryAction I have :
...
request.setAttribute("categories", categories);
forward = mapping.findForward("Success");
return forward;
...
where categories is the Vector.
I have putsome println at the beginning of the execute method but I cannot see any.
When I call : localhost:8080/bookstore/index.jsp
in the prompt appears :
action: Processing a GET for /index
action: Setting locale 'en_US'
Looking for Action instance for class com.mtp.store.action.CategoryAction
action: Double checking for Action instance already there
action: Creating new Action instance
and stops here. Then the the index.jsp appears without any code.
Does anyone know the problem ???
Thanks !!!

[Erik Hatcher]

I would venture a guess and say that its working ok up to the index.jsp and perhaps what you've got there is causing the problem. What does your browser get from View Source? What is in your JSP page?

[pilania]

I think you should have a form-bean defined. wherein form-bean will have logic to get data from database and populate html.

[Matthew Phillips]

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[Dustin Marx]

I recommend, if this is still a problem, that you make sure that your action class (com.mtp.store.action.CategoryAction) extends the Struts Action class. If it does not extend this class, you can get a message like the one you are seeing.