Wildcards in Struts2 actions

Wildcards, and their possible applications in Struts2 action mapping are both diverse and powerful. More so than a lot of the content out there give them credit for, and more than I thought the were.

Rather thatn attempt to explain it all here, just go read the article here: https://cwiki.apache.org/WW/wildcard-mappings.html

there is also an article on what to do about ambiguous matches here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1742076/what-can-i-do-about-ambigous-wildcard-patterns-in-struts