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The main functionality of the REST plugin lies in the interpretation of incoming request URL's according the RESTful rules. In the Struts 2 framework, this 'mapping' of request URL's to Actions is handled by in implementation of the ActionMapper interface. Out of the box, Struts 2 uses the DefaultActionMapper to map URL's to Actions via the logic you are probably already familiar with.

The REST plugin provides an alternative implementation, RestActionMapper, that provides the RESTful logic that maps a URL to a give action class ( aka 'controller' in RESTful terms ) and, more specifically, to the invocation of a method on that controller class. The following section, which comes from the Javadoc for the class, details this logic.

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