RE: [OT] OJB or Hibernate??

2003-03-30 Thread Jacob Hookom
OJB all the way, you would be surprised at what it can do for complex queries and caching (ex, give me the five most recent forums ordered by their posts' time stamp: Criteria.addOrderBy(posts.created, true)). I can't say enough. Hibernate is on its way to OJB, but OJB just gets better and

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

2003-03-30 Thread Jain, Shilpi
Thanks. I have been able to do it. -Original Message- From: Dan Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:32 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: how to logic:iterate throu serveral collections at once ? A clean solution is to put your label, value, and

custom tile definitions leads to error

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Allen
I took the lead of Cedric when he made his SimpleMenuItem and I extended it to make a SimpleMenuActionItem with the following layout: item text=Home action=/Home classtype=net.creativerge.bean.SimpleMenuActionItem/ However, now I am getting DTD parse errors all over the place. It seems sort of

RE: Setting externally JNDI properties - thanks Dan

2003-03-30 Thread Marco Tedone
Dan thank you for your help. The first snippet worked greately. Marco -Original Message- From: Dan Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 3:38 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Setting externally JNDI properties The following snippets may help

RE: Populating a Form

2003-03-30 Thread Adam Sherman
On 03/29/03 23:42:04 -0700 Sterin, Ilya wrote: In the reset method of the ActionForm. I am using DynaValidatorForms, guess I should have mentioned that. Thanks, A. -- Adam Sherman Tritus CG Inc. http://www.tritus.ca/ +1 (613) 797-6819

[Tiles] putList() Displaying

2003-03-30 Thread Jacob Hookom
I was wondering if I missed something in the documentation pertaining to displaying lists of includes without using scriptlets. The tiles example war uses putLists to describe menus, but then uses a scriptlet with an Iterator to actually display them. Why doesn't the tiles:insert tag know if

ValidatorLookupDispatchAction or VLDAction

2003-03-30 Thread Brandon Goodin
I have made some needed changes and updates to the ValidatorLookupDispatchAction (scheduled for 1.2). But, I cannot decide on whether I should change the name from ValidatorLookupDispatchAction (which is a mouthful) or VLDAction (tight! baby!). What do you all think? P.S. Each method in the

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

2003-03-30 Thread Jeff Smith
Another day, and I start it out much more alert and perceptive. Unfortunately I'm still not seeing the solution. (Undoubtedly I am ignorant of some key piece of struts knowledge that is holding me back. :-) I see how struts-el would allow me to reference ${foo} values within the html-el:link tag,

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

2003-03-30 Thread James Mitchell
From http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-bean.html#define The bean:define tag differs from jsp:useBean in several ways, including: * Unconditionally creates (or replaces) a bean under the specified identifier. * Can create a bean with the value returned by a property

RE: Populating a Form

2003-03-30 Thread Sterin, Ilya
I still think it's the same, it inherits from ActionForm I believe, so reset should still be there. Ilya -Original Message- From: Adam Sherman To: Struts Users Mailing List Sent: 3/30/03 7:57 AM Subject: RE: Populating a Form On 03/29/03 23:42:04 -0700 Sterin, Ilya wrote: In the reset

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

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Tran
Jeff, I tried to look at your original post and I dont really understand the exact problem. You post your minimal code and see if I can help. -Dan - Original Message - From: Jeff Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 8:42 AM

RE: Populating a Form

2003-03-30 Thread Adam Sherman
On 03/30/03 09:59:54 -0700 Sterin, Ilya wrote: I still think it's the same, it inherits from ActionForm I believe, so reset should still be there. I think we aren't on the same page. Given some JSP: html:form action=/sender/update focus=name html:text property=name

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

2003-03-30 Thread Jeff Smith
Thanks very much James. Thanks also for resisting the urge to put a giant RTFM in your response. :-) Jefficus - Original Message - From: James Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 9:57 AM Subject: Re: It's late and I'm

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

2003-03-30 Thread David M. Karr
Jeff == Jeff Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff I have some data in an XML file. Jeff I read it in from JSP using x:set (the JSTL X tags) Jeff I then transfered it to a variable like so: Jeff c:set var=somevarname Jeff x:out ... / Jeff /c:set Jeff I can now

MyCart MyButt MyBCentral

2003-03-30 Thread Micael
What is up with the MyCart application that is supposed to be a Struts example but seems only to lead to Microsoft's bCentral? LEGAL NOTICE This electronic mail transmission and any accompanying documents contain information belonging to the sender which may be confidential and legally

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

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Deegan
Yes Jeff / David this works for me David Try using c:url and c:param to build up a url with parameters, then David reference the ${url} variable from the href attribute of html:link. c:url value=userPg var=url c:param name=ID value=${item['id']}/ c:param name=Dispatch value=Zoom/

Struts-el book

2003-03-30 Thread Ruben Pardo
Hi everybody! Is there any book that explain in detail struts-el and JSTL? I'm searching in Struts in action by ted husted, Programming Jakarta Struts by chuck cavaness, and Mastering Jakarta struts by james goodwill, but I don't find anything. Any suggestion?

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

2003-03-30 Thread Jeff Smith
That will work, but it has a built-in weakness. It side-steps the struts action mappings by hard-coding the destination URL in the JSP. The approach that I was using last night (which James helped me solve this morning) was to go this way: bean:define id=myBeanName c:out value=${myXMLValue}/

RE: Struts-el book

2003-03-30 Thread Brandon Goodin
It's not about struts-el. But it is about jstl which is what you really need to know. The struts-el is just struts tags that are enhanced with jstl-el. So if you already know the struts tags then all you need to know is the el portion of the struts-el. Otherwise, buy Struts in Action to go with

server side components for table editing

2003-03-30 Thread Carsten Hammer
Hi, Is there anything available like server side web components for table organized data? I mean something that can be used to add/delete/modify (e.g. database) table rows implemented using struts,servlets,jsps or whatever and what then can be easily integrated in a J2EE environment using

RE: server side components for table editing

2003-03-30 Thread Brandon Goodin
Something like this? http://jdbforms.sourceforge.net/ Brandon Goodin -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carsten Hammer Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: server side components for table editing Hi, Is there anything

Writing excel compatible output

2003-03-30 Thread David Bolsover
We are all used to writing output to make html tables and with little effort we can fool our browser into treating these as excel (mime type application/vnd.ms-excel) but I now want to embed formulae into my response. Does anyone know of generic taglibs that will enable me to write execl

RE: Struts-el book

2003-03-30 Thread David Bolsover
You might try the O'Reilly JavaServer Pages - reasonably good treatment of JSTL (not struts-el) - if you are already familiar with struts taglibs this book should give you the extra knowledge you need. db -Original Message- From: Ruben Pardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 March 2003

RE: Writing excel compatible output

2003-03-30 Thread Brandon Goodin
POI might help. http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ Brandon Goodin -Original Message- From: David Bolsover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:48 PM To: Struts User Subject: Writing excel compatible output We are all used to writing output to make html tables and with

Re: server side components for table editing

2003-03-30 Thread Carsten Hammer
Brandon Goodin schrieb: Something like this? http://jdbforms.sourceforge.net/ Brandon Goodin Yes, nearly! But I would like it to be a bit less database centric. I want to use it for a three thier approach using J2EE and therefore have to work not on jdbc drivers but on my own methods. I guess

Validation for anything other than html:text

2003-03-30 Thread Steven Citron-Pousty
Greetings all: How do you validate a html:select or html:radio for required using the validator plugin. All the doco deals with html:text. I found some old postings but they didn't really explain how to do this. I tried it out and it doesn't seem to work. I want the form to return an error if

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

2003-03-30 Thread Jason Long
I have never used a Singleton before. My understanding is that it is just a static class memeber. There will be only one person trying to load this form at a time since it is for management purposes only. Maybe I am going about this all the wrong way. Here is what I am doing. When the xml file is

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

2003-03-30 Thread Jason Long
I have never used a Singleton before. My understanding is that it is just a static class memeber. There will be only one person trying to load this form at a time since it is for management purposes only. Maybe I am going about this all the wrong way. Here is what I am doing. When the xml file is

Re: Struts-el book

2003-03-30 Thread David M. Karr
Ruben == Ruben Pardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ruben Hi everybody! Ruben Is there any book that explain in detail struts-el and JSTL? I'm searching in Struts in action by ted husted, Programming Jakarta Struts by chuck cavaness, and Mastering Jakarta struts by james goodwill, but I

Re: Validation for anything other than html:text

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Tran
Required select works for me! do you have the normal text file validation working ? -Dan - Original Message - From: Steven Citron-Pousty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: Validation for anything other than

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

2003-03-30 Thread Andrew Hill
These days Job Applications without degrees tend to get stamped [FRIDAY] and filed appropriately... A degree can help you get a chance at being evaluated as a candidate, though curiously , having a degree that is relevant often seems less important than having a degree. Mine for example is in a

RE: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-30 Thread Andrew Hill
snip quite frankly, there are more interesting things in the world than just computers and web apps :-) /snip Beer? -Original Message- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2003 13:45 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Does a degree matter?

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

2003-03-30 Thread Kwok Peng Tuck
Just curious but did you find the transition from Econs to comp sc difficult ? Cause I might do the reverse, comp science to Econs ! Mine for example is in a different discipline completely (Economics) though having graduated from that I went straight on to do a grad diploma in computing so I

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

2003-03-30 Thread Andrew Hill
Well computings always been a hobby of mine since I was knee high to a grasshopper, so it was actually quite easy - I already knew C , so C++ wasnt difficult to pick up. The main thing that I found difficult understanding first time were relational database concepts. -Original Message-

Re: [Logic Tag] Can This work

2003-03-30 Thread Puneet Agarwal
Alright, Following is what exactly am I trying to achieve: In our application we have to develop number of screens (more than 200) which have a table listing with 10 rows shown at a time and facility for next and previous page being given in the form of buttons. I wish to write a generic TILE

Re: how to get a single value from hashtable

2003-03-30 Thread shashi_struts
Hi Max Sorry for writing the wrong code. In my code : --- Hashtable hash=new Hashtable(); hash.put(page 1,new ArrayList()); hash.put(page 2,new ArrayList()); hash.put(page 3,new ArrayList()); the code i am using in java is if(hash.containsKey(new String(page 2)) ArrayList

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

2003-03-30 Thread Rick Reumann
Does anyone else ever wake up going Man, I feel overwhelmed. Too much too learn, not enough time. I started this computer stuff rather late in life and find it very difficult trying to pick out what to try concentrate my learning in. Bottom line is I have to put food on the table for the family so

RE: [OT] overwhelmed [was] Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-30 Thread Andrew Hill
snip Wish I could just start over and be a farmer in some little rural ho-dunk town where my greatest concerns would be whether God was going to provide enough rain for the crops. /snip My old man was a farm labourer. Its no walk in the park, and (in Australia at least) God has been decidedly

Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-30 Thread Rahul
Hello Brandon, I agree with Jeff and Craig. I think its the can do attitude that should matter, and not just the has done facts :p I never touched or learned programming until I graduated in Commerce. Simultaneously pursued my hobby in Japanese and then landed in job as a language

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

2003-03-30 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, Mar 31,'03 (12:56 PM GMT+0800), Andrew wrote: My old man was a farm labourer. Its no walk in the park, Well, I certainly didn't mean to imply that it would be and of course I really wasn't serious about wanting to be a farmer (I'm way too lazy for that job:). I just meant it from

RE: [OT] overwhelmed [was] Re: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-30 Thread Andrew Hill
Yep. I understand what you mean. Ive often wondered if there is any job out there like that, but I have not been able to think of one :-( I certainly understand the know what you need to do wish! One often spends more time working out what to do than one does doing it... sigh/ master: We need

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

2003-03-30 Thread Simon Kelly
Hi Brandon, Just thought I'd give you my 2 cents from the position you may find yourself in the 6 months. I gave up a reasonably promising career in electronics to go back to school to study Real-time systems (v.low level programming) at age 31. And although I think all of the advice you have

Re: Too many session scoped form beans!

2003-03-30 Thread Nicolas De Loof
If this hacking scenario makes you nervous, you can set an acceptable max index value : private static final int MAX_INDEX = 100; public void setItem(int index, Object obj) { if (index MAX_INDEX) { throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException(); } Nico. Nicolas, Your great

RE: Does a degree matter?

2003-03-30 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi This article http://www.well.com/user/jaron/general.html ends with these words Lanier has no academic degrees. If this doesn't inspire software programmers all over the world then nothing will. I've been collecting such details over the past few years. Take the case of Jeff de

Setting up JSTL---How?

2003-03-30 Thread joni santoso
Hi, I have downloaded jakarta-taglibs-20030316.zip. I have unzipped and installed it to my tomcat 4.1.18. Here is my test web-app's web.xml (is it wrong?) : !-- ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? !DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC -//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN

Re: Setting up JSTL---How?

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Tran
suggestion!! download Struts-el example, load and run it. And use it as template for your new jstl work. -Dan - Original Message - From: joni santoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:15 PM Subject: Setting up JSTL---How?

Re: Too many session scoped form beans!

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Tran
Of course, your newest solution is better, but it still does not feel right regarding the MAX_INDEX allowed ;-) -D - Original Message - From: Nicolas De Loof [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Too many

Re: Setting up JSTL---How?

2003-03-30 Thread joni santoso
where can i get that struts-el? still i am curious why the jstl didn't work :(. On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:20:03 -0800 Dan Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suggestion!! download Struts-el example, load and run it. And use it as template for your new jstl work. -Dan - Original Message - From:

Re: Setting up JSTL---How?

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Tran
struts-el uses JSTL. So if you follow the template of struts-el example app, your JSTL will work. struts-el is under struts distribution in contrib directory. - Original Message - From: joni santoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March

Re: Too many session scoped form beans!

2003-03-30 Thread Nicolas De Loof
That is just an example, I don't know what MAX value can be used for the datas you want the user to submit. Another solution would be to put form-bean into session scope and add a to-be-removed mecanism : When an action puts some form-bean on session scope for editing, it can set a