Choosing consequences for handling different outputs (JSP, Ajax, Binary, etc.)

Mentawai has the concept of Consequence, also known as Resolver in other frameworks like Spring MVC.

Basically, depending on the RESULT of an Action you can trigger the appropriate CONSEQUENCE.

The most common consequences are FORWARD to a JSP or REDIRECT to an URL:

Now we talk about consequences for other types of output:

1) AJAX consequence generating JSON:

Action:

Configuration:

2) Streaming binary (images, pdf or anything):

Action:

Configuration: