what is the significance of SwitchAction in struts framework

[vijay dadhwal]

Dear all,

I am studying Struts.

I am aware SwitchAction enables switching to actions in different modules.
But when we can directly call actions of different modules from a default module then what is the significance of SwitchAction?

For instance

struts-config.xml:-

<action path="/switch" type="org.apache.struts.actions.SwitchAction"></action>
<action path="/usersubmit" name="lookupForm" type="app.LookupAction" scope="session">
  <forward name="success" path="/switch.do?page=/listusers.do&prefix=/admin" />

calls an action listusers from module admin whereas

<action path="/usersubmit" name="lookupForm" type="app.LookupAction" scope="session">
  <forward name="success" path="/admin/listusers.do/>

also does the same thing

Then what is the use of SwitchAction ?

Please clear my doubt on this.

Regards
Vijay">

[Bear Bibeault]

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