<global-forwards>
    <forward name="error" path="/error.jsp"/>
    <forward name="list" path="/list.jsp"/>
    <forward name="detail" path="/detail.jsp"/>
    
</global-forwards>

<form-beans>

  <form-bean name="detailForm"
             type="hansen.playground.DetailForm"/>

</form-beans>

<action-mappings>

    <action   path="/list"
              type="hansen.playground.ListDVDAction"
              parameter="d:\\dvds.xml">
    </action>

    <action   path="/detail"
              type="hansen.playground.DetailDVDAction"
              name="detailForm"
              validate="false"
              scope="request">
    </action>

    <action   path="/save"
              type="hansen.playground.SaveDVDAction">
    </action>

    <action   path="/process"
              type="hansen.playground.ProcessDVDAction"
              name="detailForm"
              scope="request"
              validate="false">
        <forward name="create" path="/create.do"/>          
        <forward name="update" path="/update.do"/>          
        <forward name="delete" path="/delete.do"/>          
        <forward name="cancel" path="/cancel.do"/>          
    </action>

    <action   path="/create"
              type="hansen.playground.CreateDVDAction"
              name="detailForm"
              input="/detail.jsp"
              scope="request">
        <forward name="OK" path="/detail.jsp"/>          
    </action>

    <action   path="/update"
              type="hansen.playground.UpdateDVDAction"
              name="detailForm"
              input="/detail.jsp"
              scope="request">
       <forward name="OK" path="/detail.jsp"/>          
    </action>

    <action   path="/delete"
              type="hansen.playground.DeleteDVDAction"
              name="detailForm"
              scope="request"
              validate="false">
        <forward name="OK" path="/list.jsp"/>          
    </action>

    <action   path="/cancel"
              forward="/list.jsp">
</action>

action

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list

The "parameter" keyword can be used to transfer data to the Action class. In this example we give the name of the xml file to read.
The Action class may retrieve the value like this:
String filename = mapping.getParameter();

detail

The "DetailDVDAction" class fills data in the "DetailForm" instance for detail.jsp to display.
The detail command is given as a hyperlink:
<a href="detail.do?index=<%=i%>">
An "index" member variable is therefore added to the "DetailForm" class.
The hyperlink acts precisely as a form submit with method=get.

save

Is implemented without a submit. A button with an onclick event is used to invoke the save action.

process

Since the process action is defined in an HTML form we need an ActionForm. The ProcessDVDAction does not use it however.

create and update

"validate" defaults to "true". Note that by defining the "forward" with the action we can change the target page without having to recompile the Action class.

cancel

Since "cancel" only directs the browser to the List page we use "forward" instead of "type" to avoid defining an Action class.