Struts ignoring validate method

Question

<form-bean name="RegisterForm" type="com.mysite.form.RegisterForm" />

<action path="/register" type="com.mysite.action.RegisterAction" name="RegisterForm" input="/register.jsp" validate="true">
                <forward name="success" path="/welcome.jsp" />
                <forward name="failure" path="/register.jsp" />
            </action>

RegisterForm

public class RegisterForm extends ActionForm{
private String name;

    /**
    Constructor
    Set+Get
    **/

    public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping, ServletRequest request) {

        ActionErrors errorList = new ActionErrors();
        System.out.println("VALIDATING");
        return errorList;
    }
}

This is all i have. For some reason it seems that the control flow jumps directly to the ActionForm's execute method because I can't even see the VALIDATING message in the console. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to use the other overloaded validate() method that takes HttpServletRequest