I do almost all my work in a j2ee big portal application. Sometimes my work consist in developing portlets using among other things, struts, jsp, etc. Here is something about struts that i'm always unsure of:
in a struts action file, if you invoque
res.sendRedirect(url);
this will be like if the user navigates to that url, first execute the correspondent struts action, and the show the user the related page
another different thing is doing a
setForward(req, page_name)
this will inmediately show the user the indicated jsp without invokling the correspondent action
This note is only for me, i always get confused about which one of these two use ...