Struts namespaces and WEB-INF folder

Question

I want to put view.jsp file in WEB-INF folder. it lies in WEB-INF\user\view.jsp

<package name="user" extends="struts-default"  namespace="user">
     <action name="view" class="com.example.user.ViewUserAction">
             <result>/WEB-INF/user/view.jsp</result>
     </action>
</package>

but Struts changes this url to application/user/WEB-INF/user/view.jsp

so as I understand if my namespace is not "/" I will never visit the JSP in WEB-INF ?

What? Where do you see that *Struts changes this url to application/user/WEB-INF/user/view.jsp* ? — Aleksandr M, Jun 02 '15 at 08:03
A namespace is not a path to your action, it's like a placeholder where your action is resided. — Roman C, Jun 02 '15 at 09:30
@RomanC so it works like location from which action will be done ? — marknorkin, Jun 02 '15 at 17:20
The location is what in the body of the result tag, and it's absolute in your code. — Roman C, Jun 02 '15 at 19:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 03 '15 at 17:11

I found where I was wrong.

As Alexander M pointed out in comments no such url will be generated.

The thing is I've tried various bad solutions, but most of them had the next synopsis.

In struts.xml I wrote:

<package name="product" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">
        <action name="view" class="com.example.action.product.ViewProduct">
            <result name="success">/WEB-INF/view/product/view.jsp</result>
        </action>
</package>

and in jsp I refer to somee action as:

<a href="product/view">View product</a>

but seems like its wrong way to do it - in my case I had urls like:

http://localhost:8080/app/product/product/view.action

which is not valid.

So I changed struts.xml namespace to:

  <package name="product" namespace="/product" extends="struts-default">
            <action name="view" class="com.example.action.product.ViewProduct">
                <result name="success">/WEB-INF/view/product/view.jsp</result>
            </action>
   </package>

And then in view.jsp used struts <s:a> tag (or you may use <s:url>):

<a href="<s:url action='view' namespace="/product"/>"> View product</a>

<s:a action="view" namespace="/product"> View product</s:a>

For further reference about packages and namespaces understanding:

Yes, using S2 tags for url construction is the best practice. — Aleksandr M, Jun 03 '15 at 20:12

Struts namespaces and WEB-INF folder

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