Using struts 2 with no tags

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Hi everyone,

I wonder if you could guide me on this struts issue - I feel hopeless on this...

I am working on migrating our web application to a Struts 2 portlet (I'm using Struts 2.1.8). The thing is, I am forced to avoid struts tags because our application relies on Dijit widgets, which are omitted when using struts tags. So now I should implement the <s:form> tag using scriptlets.

My question is: how you would suggest I imitate the way struts handles the "action" attribute?

Right now it appears I should:

Create a regular html form in my jsp.
Get/create the ActionConfig object during onsubmit and set on it values which match my desired destination: class+method+result jsp.
Execute the action I set in 2.

Would you recommend this? If so - is ActionConfig obtained from the session? Can I initiate an action execution from ActionConfig?

(Aletrnatively... generating an action url using struts' form.vm file - what do you say?)

I would appreciate any help on this - Thanks a lot in advance!!!

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