How can I set the welcome page to a struts action?

Question

I have a struts-based webapp, and I would like the default \"welcome\" page to be an action. The only solutions I have found to this seem to be variations on making the welc

Answer 1

Just add a filter above Strut's filter in web.xml like this:

    customfilter
    com.example.CustomFilter


    customfilter
    /*

And add the following code in doFilter method of that CustomFilter class

public void doFilter(ServletRequest servletRequest, ServletResponse servletResponse,
        FilterChain filterChain) throws IOException, ServletException {
    HttpServletRequest httpRequest = (HttpServletRequest)servletRequest;
    HttpServletResponse httpResponse = (HttpServletResponse)servletResponse;
    if (! httpResponse.isCommitted()) {
        if ((httpRequest.getContextPath() + "/").equals(httpRequest.getRequestURI())) {
            httpResponse.sendRedirect(httpRequest.getContextPath() + "/MyAction");
        }
        else {
            filterChain.doFilter(servletRequest, servletResponse);
        }
    }
}

So that Filter will redirect to the action. You dont need any JSP to be placed outside WEB-INF as well.