Page History

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In these two ways, the plugin encourages a page-based development style, handling the linking of Struts actions with pages and pages with Results in a common way.

To see the plugin in action, review the "Person Manager" example in the Showcase application.

Default Mappings

To better facilitate a code-behind development approach, the plugin will detect the case where the request has no defined Struts action mapping, yet there exists a corresonding page. It will then create a dummy action mapping referencing the default Action class (usually ActionSupport), allowing the page to be displayed normally. Additionally, the default interceptor stack for the configured package will be applied, bringing the workflow benefits of interceptor stacks to simple pages.

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