6.What is ActionServlet?
ActionServlet is a simple
servlet which is the backbone of all Struts applications. It is the main
Controller component that handles client requests and determines which Action
will process each received request. It serves as an Action factory – creating
specific Action classes based on user’s request.
7.What is role of ActionServlet?
ActionServlet performs
the role of Controller:
- Process
user requests
- Determine
what the user is trying to achieve according to the request
- Pull
data from the model (if necessary) to be given to the appropriate view,
- Select
the proper view to respond to the user
- Delegates
most of this grunt work to Action classes
- Is responsible for initialization and clean-up of resources
8.What is the ActionForm?
ActionForm is javabean
which represents the form inputs containing the request parameters from the
View referencing the Action bean.
9.What are the important methods of ActionForm?
The important methods of ActionForm are : validate() & reset().
10.Describe validate() and reset() methods ?
validate() : Used to validate
properties after they have been populated; Called before FormBean is handed to
Action. Returns a collection of ActionError as ActionErrors. Following is the method
signature for the validate() method.
public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping,HttpServletRequest request)
reset(): reset() method is called by Struts Framework with each request
that uses the defined ActionForm. The purpose of this method is to reset all of
the ActionForm's data members prior to the new request values being set.
public
void reset() {}
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