public  void configure(Configuration conf) throws ConfigurationException 
{
                                                 
        Configuration[] parameters = conf.getChildren();
        this.settings = new HashMap(parameters.length);
        for (int i = 0; i <  parameters.length; i++) {
            String key = parameters[i].getName();
            String val = parameters[i].getValue(null);
            this.settings.put(key, val);
        }
}

Configures the Action. Takes the children from the Configuration and stores them them as key (configuration name) and value (configuration value) in settings.
This automates parsing of flat string-only configurations. For nested configurations, override this function in your action.