RE: Do Struts increase developer productivity?

2003-03-29 Thread Micael
If you have a good lead person on your team, that makes all the difference. Someone has to know what they are doing, and then everyone speeds up. That is especially true if you are using the pluses of the Xtremists. There are lots of good people out there to take these positions. I

Re: [Tiles-Definitions] can't find bean in request.

2003-03-29 Thread Cedric Dumoulin
Joel Wickard wrote: Cedric Dumoulin wrote: Hi, The definition from the tiles file are stored in the factory. You should use the following to insert a definition: tiles:insert name=admin / the above method of trying to insert the predefined defs results in the following exception when

Re: REPEAT: Tiles put attribute beanScope not found in DTD -is this right?

2003-03-29 Thread Cedric Dumoulin
Hi Richard, The scope attribute in an insert is used to specify the jsp scope from which a definition should be retrieved. Definition can be stored in a jsp context by the user or with the help of the tiles:definition .. tag. Definitions declared in the tiles config file are NOT stored in

Bitmechanic JDBC Connection Pool or Struts Connection Pool

2003-03-29 Thread niksa_os
I search the [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I didn't find anything on how to setup Bitmechanic JDBC Connection Pool. http://www.bitmechanic.com/projects/jdbcpool/ Does someone can explain me how to setup Bitmechanic in struts-config.xml, web.xml and how to get connection in Action? I use MySQL:

Re: [OT] Contract Work: Going Rate?

2003-03-29 Thread Jeff Caddel
On a side note related to contracting/consulting, do ya'll generally attempt to get the numbers on the table when you deal with 3rd party recruiting companies? Are you usually aware of what the recruiting company is charging the firm you are working for? Do you feel (like I do) that you have

RE: [ANN] Tablib

2003-03-29 Thread David Bolsover
Excellent piece of work - congratulations to all concerned. db -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 March 2003 06:02 To: Struts Users List Subject: [ANN] Tablib I just commited a new project by Mohan Kishore [EMAIL PROTECTED]. He developed and

Error regarding ValidatorForm

2003-03-29 Thread Jain, Shilpi
I have a weird problem. I am using the validator plug-in of struts for doing validations in my form. When I start my Tomcat, an error comes. This error does not come if I delete my work folder in Tomcat and restart Tomacat. From then on it works fine. But as soon as I restart my Tomcat, if the

Re: [Logic Tag] Can This work

2003-03-29 Thread James Mitchell
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 02:46, Puneet Agarwal wrote: Unfortunately, this did not work, mostly because this will substitute the value at a later stage than required. I can't really help, if you don't specify your requirements. We need some other solution to this Any more clues !!!

Re: Bitmechanic JDBC Connection Pool or Struts Connection Pool

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/faqs/database.html -D - Original Message - From: niksa_os [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 2:28 AM Subject: Bitmechanic JDBC Connection Pool or Struts Connection Pool I search the [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I didn't find

RE: REPEAT: Tiles put attribute beanScope not found in DTD - is this right?

2003-03-29 Thread Richard Mixon
Cedric, Thanks for the explanation -makes all the sense in the world. - Richard -Original Message- From: Cedric Dumoulin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 1:24 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: REPEAT: Tiles put attribute beanScope not found in DTD - is

Re: Do Struts increase developer productivity?

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
James Michell is out of work? Me too. How many good ppl are in the same situation these days? Sorry for breaking out of the rythm. -D - Original Message - From: Micael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 12:05 AM Subject: RE:

Re: [Tiles-Definitions] can't find bean in request.

2003-03-29 Thread Joel Wickard
Cedric Dumoulin wrote: So you have an error in your config or in your definition declaration. Please, check the examples in the tiles-documentation.war. You can also check one of the following articles: * http://blogs.browsermedia.com/patrick/index.do?date=20030210#120914 *

encoding problem

2003-03-29 Thread santhosh
Hello all, I am using struts in our project. application server is JBOSS with Tomcat as servlet container. If i set contenet type ans UTF-8 (%@ page contentType=text/html;charset=UTF-8%) in jsp i am getting the following error. org.apache.jasper.JasperException: null(-1,-1) Cannot read file:

struts - RequestProcessor

2003-03-29 Thread niksa_os
I was found this for RequestProcessor protected boolean processPreprocess( HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response){ boolean continueProcessing = true; HttpSession userSession = request.getSession(false); // Check to see if there's a

Form Field Unset Condition

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Sherman
I asked a similar question last week and am still having trouble with this simple idea. I have a form: form-bean name=senderEditForm type=org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm form-property name=id type=java.lang.String /

initialize application-scope variables

2003-03-29 Thread Brian Buckley
Hello, I am writing a PlugIn (subclass of org.apache.struts.action.PlugIn ) to initialize a bunch of application-scope variables. Several of my JSP snippets also initialize application-scope variables (using either c:set ..scope=application /, jsp:useBean ...scope=application /, bean:define...

Re: initialize application-scope variables

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
I dont think there is a way. You can refactor it by moving the JSP init code to a java bean and have both JSP and PlugIn to call the java bean is it okie? -D - Original Message - From: Brian Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003

RE: Form Field Unset Condition

2003-03-29 Thread Robert Taylor
Two questions: 1. Am I correct is using String as the form-property type? Yes. This is a best practice approach to have form properties be boolean or String 2. What should be used as CONDITION so that CONDITION is true if the parameter id has been set? (I assume that my validation should

Collections validation

2003-03-29 Thread Harish Krishnaswamy
The Struts Users Guide has a simple demonstration of validating collections under the heading Conditionally required fields. I have been looking for this for a few weeks now and I have been skipping this section looking at the heading. Can a collection related heading be added to the existing

Re: Do Struts increase developer productivity?

2003-03-29 Thread James Mitchell
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:02, Dan Tran wrote: James Michell is out of work? Me too. How many good ppl are in the same situation these days? Well, I'm not actually out of work yet, but my current contract is almost over and I've been looking for months. As much as I love to evangelize Struts,

Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Brandon Goodin
Hey all, I'm trying to make a decision as to what I am going to do. I am sucking wind on profitable work. So, I was thinking about going to school and getting a BA in Comp Science to make myself more attractive in the job market. Is it really worth doing? I've been doing development for 5

RE: Do Struts increase developer productivity?

2003-03-29 Thread stephen . clement
There is a reality that new technology generally gets a honeymoon grace period during which it is generally agreed that the technology has promise but only the gurus truly understand it and everyone else simply throws buzzwords around about it and oversells/overuses it (it can solve all our

[OT] Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread David Graham
A university degree is important for employers even though you have experience. If nothing else it might be fun to go back to school! David From: Brandon Goodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Too much wine tonight?

2003-03-29 Thread David Graham
Looks like you're trying to dynamically construct a variable name and assign a value to it. Sorry, can't do that in Java; maybe in another language you've been working with recently? David From: Mark Galbreath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[OT] Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Jeff Kyser
Unfortunately, to many who are hiring, the degree is an important screen before further consideration. and in a tough market, where there are many applicants for each job, they can afford to be choosy. I've known many a bright guy who did not have a degree, and their salary always seemed lower

RE: Form Field Unset Condition

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Sherman
On 03/29/03 13:17:39 -0500 Robert Taylor wrote: 2. What should be used as CONDITION so that CONDITION is true if the parameter id has been set? (I assume that my validation should make sure id is an integer if it is set.) DynaValidatorForm dynaForm = (DynaValidatorForm)form; String id =

RE: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread stephen . clement
Hello Brandon, Generally degrees, diplomas, accreditation, courses and the like can only help you in any career. But the IT career is unusual because of pace at which things change in the IT industry. Cheaper computers, cheaper software and cheaper programmers make it tough to see where you

RE: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Brandon Goodin
Maybe I'll go become a citizen of India... They seem to be getting a lot of IT work. Heck $20/hour over there is like $80/hour here :-)) Brandon Goodin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Jason Long
When deploying my Struts application I ran in to a small problem. I had hard coded the path to an xml file used to load values into my form. I need to get a relative path. I tried the following, but got a null pointer. ActionServlet as = this.getServlet(); ServletContext application =

Re: [OT] Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Rick Reumann
On Sat, Mar 29,'03 (02:31 PM GMT-0600), Jeff wrote: probably only you can make that decision. its a tough one. Also depends on your financial situation...sucks when you have to take out loans for school. I think I'll be paying back my loans forever:)(Biology major...not even computer

Setting externally JNDI properties

2003-03-29 Thread Marco Tedone
Hi, At present my application is 'talking' with Jboss via specific properties set a compile time. I would like to move those properties in a jndi.properties file (which I would put under WEB-INF/classes). How could I retrieve jndi.properties without specifying the exact location (which could

Re: [OT] Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Becky Norum
Brandon, What I've been hearing more and more from my friends at larger corporate institutions is that a degree does matter, especially in these difficult times. It is reflected in your pay as well as potential for advancement, let alone employment. It seems to be less important at smaller

Re: example of PlugIn for java.sql.Date Converter registration

2003-03-29 Thread Jeff Kyser
Hi all, as a follow-up to my question, wanted to thank Dan Tran for his help and also Rick Reumann for his. I was trying to add a PlugIn in the struts-config.xml file to augment the functionality of the BeanUtils.copyProperties function to handle java.util.Date going from a form to a model bean.

[OT] OJB or Hibernate??

2003-03-29 Thread Bill Johnson
I'm curious which is the framework of choice? What the strengths are of each, etc.? Thanks, Bill __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

RE: [OT] OJB or Hibernate??

2003-03-29 Thread Oguz Kologlu
I've been using JDO ( Triactive JDO ) and so far I think it has worked quite well. I haven't actually used Hibernate but it does look quite similar to JDO and appears to be little easier to configure since it doesn't have to be vendor neutral - ie no vendor specific extensions. Of course JDO

Re: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
If you deploy your app as a WAR file, then it is the correct result since there is no real directory to return But you can use this code InputStream is = servlet.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(pathName); where pathName is the context path to your file in the WAR archive. (ie

Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Arron Bates
Brandon, If you can do the deed (which it sounds like you can), I would hazard offering my opinion in thinking that it wouldn't be the best use of your time. By education I'm a graphic designer, not a computer scientist. First job was web design, programmer ever since. Results... I've only had

Re: Setting externally JNDI properties

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
The following snippets may help snippet //place your jndi under your WEB-INF/classes ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader(); InputStream in = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(jndi.properties); if ( in == null ) throw new

application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Jason Long
When deploying my Struts application I ran in to a small problem. I had hard coded the path to an xml file used to load values into my form. I need to get a relative path. I tried the following, but got a null pointer. ActionServlet as = this.getServlet(); ServletContext application =

Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Sherman
On 03/29/03 20:36:21 -0600 Arron Bates wrote: If you're thinking about spending time to put yourself out there... I reckon the best thing I ever did was while away some hours eventually becomming a participant in an open source project. Followed with a tiny site with some tutorials, helping a few

Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi Brandon. I thought I'd watch the responses to this thread before weighing in with an opinion. I was interested to note that none of the responses appear to have come from hiring managers. So I thought you might benefit from an opinion on that side of the debate. In my career I have hired over

Populating a Form

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Sherman
I feel this might be a RTFM, but have not found an answer. How to I populate a form with values I want edited without those values reappearing when validation fails? I have a chunk of JSP that I want to use for both the blank form and the edit form that would be pre-populated with existing

RE: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Jason Long
Actually I am calling a funtion that loads values into the form in the object. This load method needs to find a relative path. I cannot seem to get a reference to the controller servlet or any other way to get the path to my WEB-INF. public final class ManagerForm extends ActionForm { public

RE: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Jason Long
ActionServlet as = this.getServlet(); This is returning null. What is the proper way to get a reference to the controller servlet from and Action from? Jason Long - CEO and Chief Software Engineer Supernova Software - supernovasoftware.com BS Physics, MS Chemical Engineering -Original

[OT] Mailing List Loop

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Sherman
I seem to be posting 2 copies of my messages to the list, one of them normal and the other wierd like the attached message. WTF? Notice the multiple received headers. Is anybody else having similar problems? Thanks, A. -- Adam Sherman Tritus CG Inc. http://www.tritus.ca/ +1 (613)

how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ?

2003-03-29 Thread Slava_L
Suppose i have ids[] array and labels[] array I need to render link a href=someaction.do?id=ids[i] label[i] /a is it possible to do with logic:iterate ?

RE: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Benjamin Simpson
Brandon, I am in the same boat. Full time job as a software contractor, 5 years combined java and other technologies, two young kids (www.simpsonboys.com), a house that needs more work than I am able to do, and on and on and on. I am currently taking one night class at Eastern Michigan

Re: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
My guess about the null control serverlet, is because struts may not init the form's control servlet after the form constructor completes. If you can take a look at my answer to Setting external JNDI properties, you can put your file in classpath and load it. BTW, you might have a performance

Re: how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ?

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
The answer is yes. Please check struts doc However, by place your id and label into LabelValueBean. It will make your code easier write thru logic:iterate -Dan - Original Message - From: Slava_L [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29,

Re: example of PlugIn for java.sql.Date Converter registration

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
Jeff, your code suggests a better way to make date format configurable. Thanks -Dan - Original Message - From: Jeff Kyser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 4:45 PM Subject: Re: example of PlugIn for java.sql.Date Converter

[OT] Test

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
I keep seeing double messages sending to me when I make a post to this group Please ignore this mail -Dan _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

Re: [OT] Test

2003-03-29 Thread James Mitchell
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:44, Dan Tran wrote: I keep seeing double messages sending to me when I make a post to this group I'm only seeing one. Please ignore this mail -Dan _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses.

[OT] Test

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
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Re: how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ?

2003-03-29 Thread Slava_L
Struts doc says that only one object can be iterated inside on logic:iterate - Original Message - From: Dan Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:39 PM Subject: Re: how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ?

RE: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Jason Long
This file is and xml file that contain that data that the form needs to be filled with. It is in my WEB-INF/data folder. The problem is that I cannot find a way to tell my form where to load this data from. I need need to access to the ServletContext so I can get the real path of the web

Re: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
Is your XML file static? If it does, you cam place the xml file in your class path and use my other posted solution to have access to its InputStream. If you dont like to place it in classpath, you can create a Singleton wrapper around your XML and load it up during application startup, via

Re: how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ?

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
logic:iterate exposes an collection's index, with can be use to access other collection, right? -D - Original Message - From: Slava_L [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 10:15 PM Subject: Re: how to logic:iterate throu serveral

Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Arron Bates wrote: Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:36:21 -0600 From: Arron Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does a degree matter? Brandon, If you can do the deed

It's late and I'm feeling stupid

2003-03-29 Thread Jeff Smith
I have some data in an XML file. I read it in from JSP using x:set (the JSTL X tags) I then transfered it to a variable like so: c:set var=somevarname x:out ... / /c:set I can now dump it out happily using c:out It turns out that this particular value (an integer) is useful in a subsequent

RE: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Jason Long
It is not static. I need it to load when ActionForm is loaded. Is there no way to load form values from an external source? Jason Long - CEO and Chief Software Engineer Supernova Software - supernovasoftware.com BS Physics, MS Chemical Engineering -Original Message- From: Dan Tran

Re: It's late and I'm feeling stupid

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
It is late too and my mind also slowing down as well ;-) So here is my vague ans. Use Struts-el tag lib, it works well with JSTL -Dan - Original Message - From: Jeff Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 9:47 PM Subject:

RE: how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ?

2003-03-29 Thread Jain, Shilpi
Hi I am using an options tag to display a label value collection. I have an additional propert associated with each of the values on this option which I have stored as another boolean[]. Now in my UI, I want to have each of these options to appear in two different colors depending on the

Re: how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ?

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
A clean solution is to put your label, value, and boolean flag in a Bean then you can access all those properties as you iterating thru. Regarding the coloring, instead of using html:options tag, your can use logic:iterate and writing out the html code and color yourself -Dan - Original

Re: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm???

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
Have you given a thought on my Singleton solution? -Dan - Original Message - From: Jason Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 9:48 PM Subject: RE: application.getRealPath(/) from ActionForm??? It is not static. I need it

RE: how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ?

2003-03-29 Thread James Turner
I covered a similar thing in the Basebeans talk I gave today, you can get the slides at www.strutskickstart.com James -Original Message- From: Dan Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 1:02 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: how to logic:iterate

Test,please ignore

2003-03-29 Thread Dan Tran
-D _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

RE: Populating a Form

2003-03-29 Thread Sterin, Ilya
In the reset method of the ActionForm. Ilya -Original Message- From: Adam Sherman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/29/03 8:48 PM Subject: Populating a Form I feel this might be a RTFM, but have not found an answer. How to I populate a form with values I want edited without those values

[OT] Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Brandon Goodin
Wow, this has been some incredible insight. I can't thank you enough for your advice. It has been extremly helpful in helping me to focus my direction. As always you guys/girls have shown true heart in assisting a fellow geek. Thanks again! Brandon Goodin

Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-29 Thread Phil Steitz
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Arron Bates wrote: Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:36:21 -0600 From: Arron Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does a degree matter? Brandon, If you