Why welcome-file-list is not working if I remove struts2 .action extension?

Question

I have a problem if I remove the .action extension inside my Struts2 application. I put this in my struts.xml:

Answer 1

I was having same issue in one of the application where i need to call an Action on page load in place of index.jsp or welcom.jsp in .I did the following steps

Placed the following entry in my web.xml.

 
            index

I created an empty file with name index in my web-app folder and finally placed the following entry in my struts.xml file

     /ab.jsp
 

So in this case when i was hitting this URL www.myapp.com/myApp,its calling index action of Struts2 and i was able to do all init work for my welcome page.