mutiple button in HTML in struts framework - struts

Question

I have five buttons in my HTML code each doing differnt task . I have written one form bean and five different action classes since on click of submit button all five buttons do completely different business operation altoghether.
Am I doing it right . If so how to capture this scenarion in my struts.xml

Answer 1

Generally, I like to have 1 Action class for every action a user can take. So if they are executing different business logic, then I think you are right to have just 5 different Action classes.
1 form bean also probably makes sense, if all the buttons correspond to the same form.
As far as how to capture this in the struts.xml, I don't think you need to do anything special. Just configure the 5 actions as you would normally, and specify 5 different actions, all using the same form bean.
<!--This example is not tested, it is just to give you an idea-->
<form-beans>
<form-bean
name="form1"
type="app.Form1"/>
</form-beans>
<action-mappings>
<action
path="/Action1"
type="app.Action1"
name="form1"
input="/pages/input.jsp">
<forward
name="success"
path="/pages/success.jsp"/>
<forward
name="failure"
path="/pages/input.jsp"/>
</action>
<action
path="/Action2"
type="app.Action2"
name="form1"
input="/pages/input.jsp">
<forward
name="success"
path="/pages/success.jsp"/>
<forward
name="failure"
path="/pages/input.jsp"/>
</action>
<action
path="/Action3"
type="app.Action3"
name="form1"
input="/pages/input.jsp">
<forward
name="success"
path="/pages/success.jsp"/>
<forward
name="failure"
path="/pages/input.jsp"/>
</action>
<action
path="/Action4"
type="app.Action4"
name="form1"
input="/pages/input.jsp">
<forward
name="success"
path="/pages/success.jsp"/>
<forward
name="failure"
path="/pages/input.jsp"/>
</action>
<action
path="/Action5"
type="app.Action5"
name="form1"
input="/pages/input.jsp">
<forward
name="success"
path="/pages/success.jsp"/>
<forward
name="failure"
path="/pages/input.jsp"/>
</action>
</action-mappings>