07000
Note: The material in this section is not specific to Struts. The
configuration of servlet mappings is
defined in the Java Servlet
Specification. This section describes
the most common means of configuring a
application.
There are two common approaches to
defining the URLs that will be
processed by the controller servlet —
prefix matching and extension
matching. An appropriate mapping entry
for each approach will be described
below.
Prefix matching means that you want
all URLs that start (after the context
path part) with a particular value to
be passed to this servlet. Such an
entry might look like this:
06000
which means that a request URI to
match the /logon path described
earlier might look like this:
06001
where /myapplication is the context
path under which your application is
deployed.
Extension mapping, on the other hand,
matches request URIs to the action
servlet based on the fact that the URI
ends with a period followed by a
defined set of characters. For
example, the JSP processing servlet is
mapped to the *.jsp pattern so that
it is called to process every JSP page
that is requested. To use the *.do
extension (which implies “do
something”), the mapping entry would
look like this:
06002
and a request URI to match the
/logon path described earlier might
look like this:
06003
WARNING – The framework will not operate correctly if you define more
than one element
for the controller servlet.
WARNING – If you are using the new module support since version 1.1, you
should be aware that only extension
mapping is supported.