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The Convention plugin uses a number of different annotations to override the default conventions that are used to map actions to URLs and locate results. In addition, you can modify the parent XWork package that actions are configured with.

Action

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annotation

The Convention plugin allows action classes to change the URL that they are mapped to using the Action annotation. This annotation can also be used inside the Actions annotation to allow multiple URLs to map to a single action class. This annotation must be defined on action methods like this:

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If interceptors are not specified, the default stack is applied.

InterceptorRef

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annotation

Interceptors can be specified at the method level, using the Action annotation or at the class level using the InterceptorRefs annotation. Interceptors specified at the class level will be applied to all actions defined on that class. In the following example:

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The following interceptors will be applied to "action1": "interceptor-1", all interceptors from "defaultStack", "validation".
All interceptors from "defaultStack" will be applied to "action2".

Result

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annotation

The Convention plugin allows action classes to define different results for an action. Results fall into two categories, global and local. Global results are shared across all actions defined within the action class. These results are defined as annotations on the action class. Local results apply only to the action method they are defined on. Here is an example of the different types of result annotations:

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