Struts1执行流程

首先是容器加载web.xml

struts注册如下:

	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>
			org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet
		</servlet-class>
		<init-param>
			<param-name>config</param-name>
			<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<init-param>
			<param-name>debug</param-name>
			<param-value>3</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<init-param>
			<param-name>detail</param-name>
			<param-value>3</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>

 容器启动的时候加载一个名为ActionServlet的Servlet,在内存创建一个唯一的ActionServlet instence。

部分源码：

public class ActionServlet extends HttpServlet {   
        protected String config = "/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml";
......
  public void init() throws ServletException {
        final String configPrefix = "config/";
        final int configPrefixLength = configPrefix.length() - 1;
             try {
            initInternal();
            initOther();
            initServlet();
            initChain();

            getServletContext().setAttribute(Globals.ACTION_SERVLET_KEY, this);
            initModuleConfigFactory();

            // Initialize modules as needed
            ModuleConfig moduleConfig = initModuleConfig("", config);

            initModuleMessageResources(moduleConfig);
            initModulePlugIns(moduleConfig);
            initModuleFormBeans(moduleConfig);
            initModuleForwards(moduleConfig);
            initModuleExceptionConfigs(moduleConfig);
            initModuleActions(moduleConfig);
            moduleConfig.freeze();

            Enumeration names = getServletConfig().getInitParameterNames();

            while (names.hasMoreElements()) {
                String name = (String) names.nextElement();

                if (!name.startsWith(configPrefix)) {
                    continue;
                }

                String prefix = name.substring(configPrefixLength);

                moduleConfig =
                    initModuleConfig(prefix,
                        getServletConfig().getInitParameter(name));
                initModuleMessageResources(moduleConfig);
                initModulePlugIns(moduleConfig);
                initModuleFormBeans(moduleConfig);
                initModuleForwards(moduleConfig);
                initModuleExceptionConfigs(moduleConfig);
                initModuleActions(moduleConfig);
                moduleConfig.freeze();
            }

            this.initModulePrefixes(this.getServletContext());

            this.destroyConfigDigester();
        } ....
 protected ModuleConfig initModuleConfig(String prefix, String paths)
        throws ServletException {
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            log.debug("Initializing module path '" + prefix
                + "' configuration from '" + paths + "'");
        }

        // Parse the configuration for this module
        ModuleConfigFactory factoryObject = ModuleConfigFactory.createFactory();
        ModuleConfig config = factoryObject.createModuleConfig(prefix);

        // Configure the Digester instance we will use
        Digester digester = initConfigDigester();

        List urls = splitAndResolvePaths(paths);
        URL url;

        for (Iterator i = urls.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
            url = (URL) i.next();
            digester.push(config);
            this.parseModuleConfigFile(digester, url);
        }

        getServletContext().setAttribute(Globals.MODULE_KEY
            + config.getPrefix(), config);

        return config;
    }

  能够看出ModultConfig的一个实例正是由ModultConfigFactory所创建也是Struts配置文件的内存表示，因为配置文件正是有ModultConfig以实例的形式给ActionConfig，FormbeanConfig，ForwardConfig这些类 的对象了，由他们来读取。

ActionServlet处理http请求，在process方法中其实是创建了一个接收了ModultConfig的RequestProcessor实例，由其中的process***方法来处理所有的请求。