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1. The method edu.mit.mortar.controller.action.GlobalEntryAction.execute is called and a session is created and the following session attributes are set:
   1. GlobalKeys.SAP_SYSTEM_ID (e.g., SF2)
   2. GlobalKeys.WAS_SYSTEM_ID (web application server system id - is this null for OAS apps?)
   3. GlobalKeys.WAS_HOST (web application server host - is this null for OAS apps?)
   4. GlobalKeys.USER_HOME (gateway page?)
2. Your action (which has been configured to chain after /EntryAction) is called which immediately calls the method IDDAction.execute which sets the following session attributes:
   1. GlobalKeys.CERT (user's certificate)
   2. GlobalKeys.USERNAME (e.g., Carolyn A Fuller)
   3. GlobalKeys.KERBID (e.g., fuller)
3. At the end of IDDAction, SAPBaseAction.doProcess is called which opens a connection to SAP.
4. At the end of SAPBaseAction, your action's method doAction is called within a MessageRuntimeException try catch.
5. If your action's method doAction calls a SAP RFC, SAPServiceSupport.execute is called.
6. If an error message is returned from the SAP RFC at this point, processing will stop and the user will either stay on the same page displaying the error message if an action input has been defined correctly in the struts-config or they will be sent to the GlobalKeys.FAIL jsp page with a MessageRuntimeException. In the rare case that you don't want to stop processing and display the error message you should wrap your service call in a try...catch statement intercepting any MessageRuntimeException messages.
   BAPIExceptions will be sent to the GlobalKeys.FAIL jsp page.
7. The value associated with the ActionMapping findForward method (i.e., "SearchResultsPage") should exactly match the forward name associated with the action's path (i.e., /SearchPeople) in struts-config.

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This provides automatic RFC error message handling (i.e. it takes all rfc messages and stores them into the struts actionmessages automatically).

Notice that above, this action  is setting a request attribute "searchResults" with the Collection, results, which is being returned by the service.

Below the business object, CumulativeReport, is being set as an attribute, cumulativeReport, in the request.
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 If your action is associated with an ActionForm, you can set the values of instance variables within this ActionForm. Below SafoForm is the ActionForm associated with this Action in the struts-config.xml configuration file.
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