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    html:form and html:link tags need to be able to reference actions outside
 current sub application
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html:form and html:link tags need to be able to reference actions outside current sub application

craig.mcclanahan@sun.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From craig.mcclanahan@sun.com  2002-07-04 02:14 -------
For <html:link>, in additon to Joe's suggestion of using "href", you can also
configure the contextRelative property of a <forward> to skip the usual Struts
action of prepending the subapp prefix.

For <html:link>, you can also forward to an Action that is implemented with
org.apache.struts.actions.SwitchAction, which is the formal mechanism for a
UI-initiated switch between subapps.

For <html:form>, I believe the better way to submit to an action in a different
subapplication is something like this (in an Action in the "from" subapp):
* Call RequestUtils.selectApplication() to select the "to" subapp you want.
* Return an ActionForward from this new subapp that points at a page in the
  "to" subapp that creates the form you want.
* The <html:form> on the new page will automatically be pointing at the
  "to" subapp.

Doing things this way avoids creating deep dependencies between subapps (i.e. a
form in one subapp and an action in another would depend on each other), which
would make maintenance of different subapps by different groups (a very common
scenario) more brittle.

The WONTFIX part of the resolution of this bug is about changes to <html:form>
-- <html:link> already seems to have the flexibility you need.

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