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Overview

Results of an Action are used in Webwork to map to a view implementation(ex. jsp, vm, html) or another action. Keep in mind though, the com.opensymphony.xwork.Result interface represents a generic interface for all action execution results, whether that be displaying a webpage, generating an email, sending a JMS message, etc.

Result types define classes and map them to names to be referred in the action configuration results. This serves as a shorthand name-value pair for these classes.

<!-- xwork.xml  -->

<action name="bar" class="myPackage.barAction">
  <result name="success" type="dispatcher">
    <param name="location">foo.jsp</param>
  </result>
  <result name="error" type="dispatcher">
    <param name="location">error.jsp</param>
  </result>
</action>

Result Types

Webwork provides several implementations of the com.opensymphony.xwork.Result interface to make web-based interactions with your actions simple. These result types include:

...

<result name="success" type="jasper">
    <param name="location">foo.jasper</param>
    <param name="dataSource">mySource</param>
     <param name="format">CSV</param>
</result>

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