Collaboration between Struts Actions and plain old Servlets

[Lasse Koskela]

Hi all,

What would be the preferred way to combine the use of Struts Actions and regular Servlets inside a web application?

The situation is that I have a bunch of Struts Actions handling most of the web app but there's one Action I'd like to be doing something along these lines:

1) verify some user privileges (using a method in my abstract "BaseAction" class)
2) forward the request/response to a Servlet

Obviously I could just use RequestDispatcher#forward(request, response) but what should the Action's execute() method then return instead of an ActionForward instance as I usually do?

[Pradeep bhatt]

I am not sure whether this will help
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=471961

[Karthik Guru]

Originally posted by Lasse Koskela:

2) forward the request/response to a Servlet
Obviously I could just use RequestDispatcher#forward(request, response) but what should the Action's execute() method then return instead of an ActionForward instance as I usually do?

Yeah, do you see foresee problems doing a mapping.findForward('xyz') after you have done a RequestDispatcher#forward(request, response) to another servlet?

[Lasse Koskela]

Thanks, Pradeep. I believe that was exactly what I was looking for!

[Lasse Koskela]

Originally posted by karthik Guru:
Yeah, do you see foresee problems doing a mapping.findForward('xyz') after you have done a RequestDispatcher#forward(request, response) to another servlet?

That was my worry but I'm quite optimistic that Pradeep's link is the cure...