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Asked: 2026-06-17T08:08:16+00:00

first off, i’m new to Struts and i have been following the tutorial here

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first off, i’m new to Struts and i have been following the tutorial here. I understand the set-up of files, and web.xml.

index.jsp:

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<logic:redirect forward="helloWorld"/>

However, when it comes to the opening of index.jsp, i am at quite a loss. From index.jsp, how does it call the class com.vaannila.action.HelloWorldAction? I know that index.jsp calls the forward=helloWorld but does it mean that it looks for a forward name="helloWorld", which is in <global-forwards>?

Let me know how I can further improve my question, since this is my first.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Correct; it redirects to whatever forward is named "helloWorld".

    In this case, that’s a forward that runs an action that sticks a value into a form.

    You’ll likely want to refer to the Struts 1 tag docs, it’ll be quicker than asking here every time.

    If you can avoid learning Struts 1, I would: it’s pretty antiquated on almost all fronts. Frameworks like Struts 2 and Spring MVC dominate Java-framework-based web apps, while things like Grails, Play, Ruby on Rails, etc. dominate JVM-based web apps.

    Line 17 of the config file in the tutorial you link to starts:

    <action path="/helloWorld" 
        type="com.vaannila.action.HelloWorldAction" 
        name="helloWorldForm">
  <forward name="success" path="/helloWorld.jsp" />
</action>
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