Jsp refering to itself

Hi,
The following is the structure of the code I am working on

index.jsp - first page
SelectedItemActionForm - a form class for the index.jsp
SelectedItemAction - action class for index.jsp

I have made entries in struts-config.xml file
<forward name="success" path="/path1.jsp">
<foward name="failure" path="/path2.jsp">

The code is working fine for path1 since that is just a normal jsp file that is printing a message.
Now, path2.jsp ... the code is as follows

<%@taglib uri="/WEB-INF/lib/struts-html.tld" prefix="html"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Collecting data for pie chart</title>
</head>
<body>
<html:form action="path2.jsp" method="post">
<html:text property="labelnum">Enter the number of labels</html:text>
<html:submit/>

<% String parameterValue = request.getParameter("labelnum");
   for(int i=0;i<Integer.parseInt(parameterValue);i++){
%>
<html:text property="labelname">Enter label name</html:text><br/>
<html:text property="labelval">Enter value</html:text><br/>
<html:submit/>
<% } %>
</html:form>

<%
String s="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?";
String chs="250x100&";
String cht="p3&";
String chd="t:";
String chl="";
Enumeration parameters = request.getParameterNames();
   	    
        while(parameters.hasMoreElements()){
            String labelname = (String)parameters.nextElement();
            chl+=labelname;
            chd+= request.getParameter(labelname);
            chd+=',';
            chl+='|';
            
        }
        chd+='&';
        s+=cht+chd+chs+chl;
  %> 
 <img >

</body>
<a ></a>
</html>

Now, the error I am getting is

cannot retrieve mapping for action /path2

Since I am not using beans here, do I have to make an entry in action mappings in struts-config.xml and what should it be since no beans are allowed here.

Thank You.

Moving to Struts.

You're using a JSP as the "action" attribute for the form. Besides that in general you don't want to submit to a JSP, the "action" attribute is expected to be just that--an action.

As i remember and as David said, you are suppose to use a real Action(servlet) in case of Struts 1 and do validation and respectively do return (mapping.findForward("failure")); or success depending on what you want. The point of the framework is MVC, so you would want to use the controller to dispatch around relative to validation or something else. There's a struts Login example here that shows the proper way to use the framework basicly: http://www.vaannila.com/struts/struts-example/struts-login-page-example-1.html

Thank you for the replies. I changed my code now. I have another doubt though.

I am using the jsp to take a value and am passing it to another jsp.

<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>

Now depending on the loop, some n values are being submitted in this form. I am catching all those in this code

Problem is the parameters thing is not getting all the values submitted in the previous form. Its just taking the first 2 values.

Proper way (although mixing jsp with scriptlet java is not recommended):

<html>
<body>
You passed me the following parameters:
< pre>
<%

// Find out the names of all the parameters.
    java.util.Enumeration params = request.getParameterNames();

while (params.hasMoreElements())
    {
// Get the next parameter name.
        String paramName = (String) params.nextElement();

// Use getParameterValues in case there are multiple values.
        String paramValues[] =
            request.getParameterValues(paramName);

// If there is only one value, print it out.
        if (paramValues.length == 1)
        {
            out.println(paramName+"="+paramValues[0]);
        }
        else
        {
// For multiple values, loop through them.
            out.print(paramName+"=");

for (int i=0; i < paramValues.length; i++)
            {
// If this isn't the first value, print a comma to separate values.
                if (i > 0) out.print(',');

out.print(paramValues[i]);
            }
            out.println();
        }
    }
%>
</pre>
</body>
</html>