Struts ignoring validate method

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<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!

Try to validate your action form with ValidatorForm instead of ActionForm and let me know the result. — Naved, Nov 27 '11 at 14:22
The given code is not real code, because it doesn't compile (Public instead of public). Try adding the @Override annotation to the validate method, to make sure you're actually overriding the ActionForm's validate method. Also try to include an error in the ActionErrors: you might miss the VALIDATING message in the console. — JB Nizet, Nov 27 '11 at 17:30
@JBNizet it is real code but I edited it because there were a lot of validation and it didn't make any point to put those here. The methos is overriding the parent method. — TGM, Nov 27 '11 at 18:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '11 at 20:01

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

answered Nov 27 '11 at 20:01

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