Clarification on hrefs within a jsp please

[Paul Taylor]

In my springapplet-servlet.xml file I have the following url mappings,

<bean id="loginController" class="ui.action.Login"/>
<bean id="listPortfoliosController" class="ui.action.ListPortfolios"/>

<bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.Sim pleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/start.do">loginController</prop>
<prop key="/listportfolios.do">listPortfoliosController</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>

and in my web.xml I have:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>springapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherSe rvlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>springapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

These work fine for getting my appliaction going.

Now within the listportfolio.jsp which provides the view for the listportfoliocontroller and hence listportfolios.do I have a form and also some hrefs. Originally these were referring to /listportfolio.do which seemed to work but thinking about it didnt make much sense to me as I am already on the listportfolio.do page so I changed them to call /listPortfolioController but this doesnt work.

Which is the correct method, and if it is the second method how do I configure my xml files to get it to work.

Also can I just check the AbstractFormController class is only meant to be used when users are using a form in an add/edit screen rather than any page which uses the <form> tag to pass user entered parameters.

[dgynn]

You are doing it correctly by linking to /listportfolios.do .

The AbstractFormController should be used if you need to prepare the data to be shown in the form. So, like you said, it is good for add/edit type forms. If you just want to get a value passed in the form POST or as a querystring param, you extend AbstractController and user request.getParameter("paramName). And if you want to have the data bound to a command object and possibly validated, extend BaseCommandController.

[Paul Taylor]

You are doing it correctly by linking to /listportfolios.do .

Ok thanks, I suppose thinking about this call will go straight way go to the specfied controller