Use of form bean name in Action mapping for ActionForward class

[vijay makam]

Hi All,

What is the use of name attribute in the Action Mapping for struts built in ActionForward.

If I have a mapping as below
<action path="/login"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"
input="/login.jsp"
parameter="/login.jsp"
name="LoginForm"
scope="session">
</action>

will the form be available to the login.jsp so that I can use reset() method of the action form to pre populate some data in login.jsp?

[David Newton]

What is the use of name attribute in the Action Mapping for struts built in ActionForward.

The "name" attribute defines the form used by the action.

will the form be available to the login.jsp so that I can use reset() method of the action form to pre populate some data in login.jsp?

Yes, that is the point of form beans: they're used by the Struts 1 form tags to capture and display form data.