A form-bean
without a type
attribute will not be mapped correctly.
Struts uses form-bean
entries to map HTML forms to actions. If a form-bean
does not have a type, it cannot be mapped to an action.
Example 1: The following form-bean
has an empty type
attribute.
<form-beans>
<form-bean name="loginForm" type="">
<form-property name="name" type="java.lang.String" />
<form-property name="password" type="java.lang.String" />
</form-bean>
</form-beans>
[1] Apache Struts 1.3 Specification