Determine whether the requested action is authorized for the current user. 

Invoke the local or global exception handler configured for the exception class that occurred.

Invoke the appropriate Action for this request, and cache the returned ActionForward.

Perform forwarding or redirection based on the specified ForwardConfig (if any).

Perform forwarding or redirection based on the specified String (if any).

Populate the form bean (if any) for this request.

Check to see if the controller is configured to prevent caching, and if so, request no cache flags to be set.

Cache the ActionConfig instance for the action to be used for processing this request.

Select and cache the ActionForward for this ActionConfig if specified.

Select and cache a ForwardConfig that returns us to the input page for the current action, if any.

Select the Locale to be used for this request.

Cache the ModuleConfig and MessageResources instances for the sub-application module to be used for processing this request.

Check to see if the content type is set, and if so, set it for this response.

Validate the properties of the form bean for this request. 

ComposableRequestProcessor uses the Chain Of Resposibility design pattern (as implemented by the commons-chain package in Jakarta Commons) to support external configuration of command chains to be used. 

Global constants for the Chain of Responsibility Library.

Create (if necessary) and cache an Action for this request. 

Create (if necessary) and cache a form bean for this request.

Intercept any exception thrown by a subsequent Command in this processing chain, and fire the configured exception handler chain after storing the exception that has occurred into the Context. 

Select and cache the include for this ActionConfig if specified.

Exception thrown when the chosen action mapping is not authorized for the current request.