Redirect url in struts

[Sree Vidhya Ram]

Ranchers
Hi!

Can any one clarify me the best way to redirect url in struts framework?

In the action bean we can use response.sendRedirect method to redirect to entirely different url.

This does violate to struts framework since we dont pass the control back to controller.

Instead if we do pass to controller and in the view layer say we use logic:redirect it does redirect to the required page.

Which is the best way or best practice to do?
What is the downside in each of the above ways?

Thanks!

[Marc Peabody]

The Controller gets no less control with a redirect than without one.

You can specify that a forward is a redirect in your struts-config.

[Sree Vidhya Ram]

Thnks for your reply.
Yep I agree that the forward is a redirect in struts-config. That is how the struts framework speaks in the spec.

So can i presume that using sendRedirect in action bean does not violate the struts framework as the controller does not handle the task?