can we able to define an action class without formbean

[sivakumar arani]

hi all,
can we able to define an action class without formbean class

i.e.,in action mapping tag , without name attribute

please explain it

thanks in advance

[RoshaniG Gopal]

Hi sivakumar,
You may use DynaActionForm for that. Here you will need to define it in the struts-config.xml file instead of creating a java class for the same. The foll links will help you.
1) http://www.roseindia.net/struts/DynaActionForm.shtml
2) http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-core/apidocs/org/apache/struts/action/DynaActionForm.html

[Merrill Higginson]

You can define an Action maapping without a name attribute, which means it has no reference to an ActionForm. If you do so, null will be passed to the execute method as the ActionForm parameter when the method is called by Struts.

However you cannot use such an action in an <html:form> tag. Any Action referenced in this tag must have an ActionForm bean attached. Whether it's a DynaActionForm as described by Roshani or a regular ActionForm doesn't matter, but you must define one.