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<!-- Generic edit* mapping -->
<action
    name="/edit*"
    class="org.apache.struts.webapp.example.Edit{1}Action">
    <result
        name="failure"
        path="/mainMenu.jsp"/>
    <result
        path="/\{1\}.jsp"/>
</action>

The "*" in the path attribute allows the mapping to match the request URIs /editSubscription, editRegistration, or any other URI that starts with /edit, however /editSubscription/add would not be matched. The part of the URI matched by the wildcard will then be substituted into various attributes of the action mapping and its action results replacing {1}. For the rest of the request, the framework will see the action mapping and its action results containing the new values.

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Wildcard patterns can contain one or more of the following special tokens:
* Matches zero or more characters excluding the slash ('/') character.
** Matches zero or more characters including the slash ('/') character.
\character The backslash character is used as an escape sequence. Thus

'\*'

matches the character asterisk ('*'), and

'\\'

matches the character backslash ('
\').

In the action mapping and action results, the wildcard-matched values can be accessed with the token {N} where N is a number from 1 to 9 indicating which wildcard-matched value to substitute. The whole request URI can be accessed with the {0} token.

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