how to ignore default namespace in struts2

Question

everyone. I'm having problem on struts2 namespace..

First of all, this is my developing environment. server : tomcat (currently my project is in ROOT folder in /tomcat/webapps/ROOT) framework : struts2

Here is my problem. lets say there are two pages. admin_index.jsp and front_index.jsp when i want to call admin_index.jsp from action. i use

<package name="admin" namespace="/dl_adm" extends="struts-default">
  <action name="/index" method="index"class="kr.co.www2.controller.front.AdminMainController">
      <result name="success">/WEB-INF/jsp/admin/admin_index.jsp</result>
  </action>
</package>

and it works fine by calling http://.../dl_adm/index.do

and to call this has problem for me.

<package name="front" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">
  <action name="/index" method="index"class="kr.co.www2.controller.front.FrontMainController">
      <result name="success">/WEB-INF/jsp/admin/front_index.jsp</result>
  </action>
</package>

when i go for the http://.../index.do, it gives 404...

although i aware that namespace="/" is for default namespace...

QUESTIONS:

1. Is there anyway to ignore the default namespace? because i want to use that / because i just want to go through http://.../ and action name without namespace...

2. or if there isn't a way to do that. any suggestions?

Answer 1

1. Is there anyway to ignore the default namespace? because i want to use that / because i just want to go through http://.../ and action name without namespace..

No, you can't ignore the default namespace. The default namespace is empty and it's used if you omit namespace attribute in the package declaration.

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2. or if there isnt a way to do that. any suggestions?

I would not use slashes in action name using xml configuration. The action mapper might incorrectly add an additional slash to the action name to infer the mapping from the URL.

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So you should use

<package name="front" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">
  <action name="index" method="index"class="kr.co.www2.controller.front.FrontMainController">
      <result name="success">/WEB-INF/jsp/admin/front_index.jsp</result>
  </action>
</package>