RE: multiple buttons on a form

Lachlan, I hope this helps - a bit long I know. Below is what I have used. It shows multiple buttons how to have data associated with the buttons. I hope this can be understood! I've seen other similar examples in archive butnot with the passing of data with the button, th way i do

RE: How do you pass a data object for editing?

I agree with Ryan. An old rule from way back:- Pass Keys Round Not Data It's simpler to only keep keys across user interactions (either stored on the form or in the session). Otherwise you have 3 versions of data 1 - what's on the database. 2 - what you've saved in the session (or on the form)

Re: How to return to the page that called the action class?

I have a generic action class that I want to set up that when the class is successful it send the user back to the page from which they came. How do I get that information? And, how would I structure my class to allow it to send the user back? We have the same propblem in our Application,

RE: Help, How to display Chinese in jsp by using message tag ?

Hi, Try saving your resource file with Chinese text as GB2312 encoded text. There is a tool in the $JAVA_HOME/bin dir called 'native2ascii'. Run this against your file and you will have a pure ascii file with \u (X = hex number) to represent the double byte chinese chars. in the javadoc it

RE: How do you pass a data object for editing?

But what if you're crossing request boundaries (i.e. user edits form, presses edit, has to review her data, presses save)? You'll have to keep the information in the session AFAICS. Please correct me if I'm wrong. It would simplify my life a lot :) tomK -Original Message- From: Keith

Struts intermittently not working after startup

I've been developing my first real Struts application for last several weeks and things have been going OK. But I reached a point (about Sunday) where the web app now doesn't always work correctly, in that it give errors like: Error 500: No action instance for path /findEntity could be created

Re: Struts intermittently not working after startup

Yes I too have the same problem, Count me ... Kicha Rob Breeds wrote: I've been developing my first real Struts application for last several weeks and things have been going OK. But I reached a point (about Sunday) where the web app now doesn't always work correctly, in that it give errors

RE: How do you pass a data object for editing?

Tom, In that case as you are doing now is the best way. Maybe store the key on the form so you can check the key on the incoming form matches the key of the data held in the session (to guard against bugs hacking). Then (big pain) - before updating check the data on the DB is the same as what

RE: How do you pass a data object for editing?

-Original Message- From: Keith Bacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 13 december 2001 12:03 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: How do you pass a data object for editing? Tom, In that case as you are doing now is the best way. Maybe store the key on the form

RE: How to extract multiple columns of data in an logic:iterate tag ?

I had to do the same thing. My bean model is Iterator. Everything WORKS. Use nested iterate tags on the same name, BUT! you must call previous() in nested iterate. logic:iterate id=dummy name=groupModel trjsp:setProperty name=groupModel property=back

Re: As there any Expected Date The Next Version of Struts will Come Out?

http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/kickstart.html#release The best advice to make any strategic plans based on what is available today, period, and treat any new release as a pleasant surprise. Even our roughest estimates have proven to be wildly inaccurate, and so it would be cruel for

Re: struts/expresso mentor

I would be very interested in being considered for this role. Working for the past year to write webAppWriter, a jsp/struts/expresso app that writes jsp/struts/expresso apps, this is very familiar territory, and one that seems pretty easy once it is repetitive. Samples for your review (10

Have a problem inserting an action or only a jps into a template

Hi, I use Struts from the nighly build 04.11.2001. My template looks like the following: %@ taglib uri=/WEB-INF/tiles.tld prefix=tiles % %@ taglib uri=/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld prefix=bean % %@ taglib uri=/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld prefix=html % %@ taglib uri=/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld

ActionMappings parameter - field

Hi, What is the parameter - field for in the ActionMapping class ? I was thinking about storing some info there that I use to communicate some things between my actions. Is it safe to just call ActionMapping.setParameter and set its value or should it be put inside a synchronized block ?

RE: ActionMappings parameter - field

Hi Tuomo, The mapping parameter is an arbitrary string associated with a mapping that can be accessed via mapping.getParameter (). Jon. -Original Message- From: Tuomo Syvänperä [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 December 2001 12:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ActionMappings

Re: ActionMappings parameter - field

Thx.. But is it safe to use setParameter in your own actions and if I do should i enclose it in a synchronized block ? /tuomo Jon.Ridgway wrote: Hi Tuomo, The mapping parameter is an arbitrary string associated with a mapping that can be accessed via mapping.getParameter (). Jon.

RE: ActionForward to anything other than a jsp

You can try something like below where the local action mapping maps to an action. forward name=success path=/detailAcct/ //return to a chained action //Note: if for some reason the success is changed from a mapped //action to a jsp page expect some nasty errors here.

Problem with Tomcat 3.3 and Struts 1.0

Hi! I'm new to struts and need help to get the examples running. I've downloaded and installed a fresh Tomcat 3.3. Then I installed struts 1.0 by copying all struts-*.war in the webapps-directory of tomcat. After restarting tomcat, struts is almost working: *

forward to jsp or to do ?

What' s the difference between a forward to jsp or to do ? In case of forward to jsp just servlet compiled from the jsp file will be called. Am I right ? What will happen if I forward to *.do ? regards, Maris global-forwards forward name=logon path=/logon.jsp/ forward

RE: multiple buttons on a form

The image submit from strutsx seems to work for a submit with an image. However, I don't see a javascript property (onClick) so that a confirm pop-up can be implemented. thanks -Original Message- From: Phase Communcations [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001

how to deal with Variable form elements in struts

Hi, I have a form that looks very similar to the inbox in Yahoo or HotMail. The number of checkbox is varying and so are their names. How to assign their values to the Form Bean property? Currently I've been using a normal input html form tag like follows. input type=checkbox name=chk_%= I %

Re: Have a problem inserting an action or only a jps into a template

Hello, This problem arise with some web container : they have some trouble to convert a String to an Object ;-(. In your case, this seems to happen in tags tiles:put name='content' content='/show/articleList.do'/ Both methods setContent(String) and setContent(Object) exist, but

Re: multiple buttons on a form

I suggest that you create a function Javascript called for the buttons, inside of the function you records one hidde-field before calling submit with a parameter passed for the function, for example, then you I can treat several submits. - Original Message - From: Kiet Nguyen [EMAIL

re: How to return to the page that called the action class?

There are a couple options I can think of: 1. use request.getHeader(Referer) 2. add a property to your generic class that holds the return link. Then have the calling class set it. 3. you could use javascript to back up, but that is ugly... HTH, Pete Hi, I have a generic action class that

re: forward to jsp or to do ?

Correct, if you forward to a jsp, it will display the compile jsp servlet. If you forward to a do, then it will look for that action in your actions-config.xml and execute the appropriate action class. This allows you to chain actions together. HTH, Pete What' s the difference between a

AW: Have a problem inserting an action or only a jps into a template

If I try my example with JBoss2.2.2Tomcat3.2.3 as standalone everyting works fine but if I try it with my JBossTomcat integrated in Visual Age I get that exception. The funny thing is that it has worked some days ago before I tested it outside VA and editited the JSP and configs outside VA.

Problem with Struts in IBM VisualAge 3.5.2

I'm trying to install and run Struts in IBM VisualAge 3.5 Patch 2 according to the instructions found in the paper from Kyle Brown (Apache Struts and VisualAge for Java, Part2: Using Struts in VAJ 3.5.2 and 3.5.3). Before to install the EmployeelistForApache.zip contents I was able to start the

RE: Struts intermittently not working after startup

Error 500: No action instance for path /findEntity could be created ... I've gotten this type of thing when I'm changing any of the action classes during development. I assume struts might be doing its own class loading and I'm pulling the old class out from under it. If you are not

Re: struts/expresso mentor

Hi Pete, I am so glad you responded! If we could talk about this over the phone, it would be a lot easier. Is this OK with you? if it's not, then how do you want to handle this?? John McClain 7604 Muschetto Ct. Citrus Heights, CA. 95621 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (916)728-5223 - Original Message -

Re: Mixing Struts with XSLT

It makes sense to me and would like to know if there is an answer as well. This tackles one problem. What about the return? You have to generate XML again and than send it through the loop. Sandeep --- Dave Makower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are currently using XML with XSLT in JSPs, in the

RE: forward to jsp or to do ?

I changed a forward from search.jsp to search.do. Then when I forward to /search it throws an exception. I tried to change some other forwards from jsp to do with the same outcome. Actually it goes in a loop printing the same stack trace again and again. I have do forward to logoff only. But

RE: 500 Error

I just upgraded to Tomcat 4.01 and get the following exception: javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet jsp threw exception at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper. java:871) . java.lang.NoSuchMethodError at

Solution: 2 Databases Problem / Oracle Connection Pooling

There is a very easy solution for the 2 Databases Problem: Oracle provides a .zip File instead a .jar file. Rename .zip to .jar and everything works fine. Struts cannot find the correct drivers, but the Error Messages are completely nonsense (100m try-catch block?) Things can be so

Servlet 2.0 spec

Hey all, I have a client that is using Oracle 9ias. Currently they are not wanting to move to OC4J (Orion). Therefore, they are planning on using JServ as their servlet container. I understand that JServ is servlet 2.0 compliant. I also understand that Struts requires the container be 2.2

Struts/FOP

Has anyone ever generated a PDF file (via FOP) from an Action servlet? Any implications in doing so via an Action servlet vs. a standard/plain servlet? I've reviewed the servlet example from the FOP distro. and it seems as if as long as I have access to the response object (which I do in the

RE: Dynamic SQL query library

While not politically correct I too use a CachedRowSet, by setting a property in my FromBean of rowset to accomplish this. For more see http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/crs Vic Note, however, that CachedRowSet is no commercially redistributable (Stated on the

RE: ActionMappings parameter - field

I think communication between actions can best be done via the request object - it is reachable from everywhere, and you can be sure it doesn't interfere with struts. hth, tomK -Original Message- From: Tuomo Syvänperä [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 13 december 2001 13:45

RE: Design Help

James, I was reading through the archives when I came across the below post. If one follow the design as you have shown below, dose the Delegate get stored in the form? If it does then does one reference the DAO via the delegate with a nested type syntax in the view/JSP? So if I have a

RE: 500 Error

What is your OS and environment? I had similar error with SUSE Linux, Apache1.3.2 Java SDK 1.4 beta 3, and struts 1.0. I changed to Java SDK 1.3 and used one of nightly builds. (all files in struts binary distribuiton have ^M caracter - DOS files and that might be also the reason. Thats my $0.02

RE: Servlet 2.0 spec

As I remember it's impossible to forward a request under 2.0. Don't think that struts will work. But some colleagues said they had replaced servlet library of JServ with newer ( I think 2.2 ) and it worked ! You can try it too. pls, let me know if it works Maris -Original

RE: forward to jsp or to do ?

it was because my action class forwarded to itself. excuse me, pls Maris -Original Message- From: Mâris Orbidâns Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: forward to jsp or to do ? I changed a forward from search.jsp to

RE: Struts Design question

But my beans already contain the validation! Besides, performing the validation in the ActionForm is effectively tying business logic (data validation) to the web framework dontya think? Well, I put data type and required field validation only in the bean. Validation that is more advanced

RE: File upload facility / file manager example app

Does anyone out there know of an opensource, java based file upload facility or file manager app ??? You will have to check the licensing statements yourself but two sources: - the struts source download has an upload app - the O'Reilly website has a very complete dicussion and sample

Re: struts/expresso mentor

Yes, a phone call would be great. I am in meetings for the rest of today, though, and have an optional one for tonight. Would tomorrow work? My schedule is fairly open then. John McClain wrote: Hi Pete, I am so glad you responded! If we could talk about this over the phone, it would be a lot

Re: Struts/FOP

I'm interested in this as well. I just finished a project writing a XSL/FO stylesheet to generate a report, and did the creation through command line via a junit test suite. If you get this figured out, let me know, I'd be happy to help publish a struts-fop example! Matt John M. Corro

RE: Problem with Struts in IBM VisualAge 3.5.2

- Did you remove IBM's XML parser and install the correct Xerces version? - Did you add your application project to the Class Path | Project Path of the TomcatRunner class? - Check to make sure you have ...\VisualAge for

Re: struts/expresso mentor

Sorry for that last post, should have been off list but I wasn't paying attention. It will not happen again. Bad netiquette on my part. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Struts/FOP

I would be interested in your approach. I used Cocoon to publish to a PDF file. Anyone with integration issues between the two frameworks? Thanks, Safa. I'm interested in this as well. I just finished a project writing a XSL/FO stylesheet to generate a report, and did the creation

RE: 500 Error

I had something like this the other night. I figured out that tomcat had saved the servlet generated off of my JSP and was checking the last-modified times between the servlet and the JSP file (like it should). The problem was that I was doing tag development and thus had to touch the JSP file

prev action class

How can I determine ( in perform() method ) which was the previous ActionClass that forwarded to current class ? Maris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: How to return to the page that called the action class?

Sorry - this is a bit of a long example. It's my attempt to implement some chaining logic using a generic chainToPage class. Seems rather long winded to me - but it sure works doesn't do anything sneaky involving struts. In this example the linkList page forwards to linkMaint tells linkMaint

transformations

I've been looking at the transformation solutions listed on Ted Husted's page. Can anyone give me a quick rundown of the pros/cons of these two? Is there an Official Struts direction on this issue? The Struts Transformer by Ron Smith http://www.rpsenterprises.com/struts/index.html The Capco

RE: multiple buttons on a form

This is how I did it, and it seems to work well: In my form I have the following: html:submit property=addAdd/html:submit html:submit property=saveSave/html:submit html:submit property=deleteDelete/html:submit In my action, I check for the existance of one of these properties and act

Re: Struts/FOP

Cocoon and Struts are different. Since I wanted to avoid server side production load issues (of lots of XSLT) I emit XML from JSP to browses. And the browses then do the XSLT FOP-like for me. This way salability is flat, as more users use it, each user uses its own XSLT on client side. (For

RE: Struts intermittently not working after startup

You can reload the _mappings_ by doing http://myserver:myport/myapp/admin/reload.do You can ask your servlet container to grab new classes... exact method depends on the container... I'm using Tomcat 4 and the steps were recently posted by someone else... I'll go grab the relevant part of the

Re: JSTL (standard taglib) Early Access 3

We should not do DB access in JSP (or anything much in JSP). Clear MVC is more productive. Vic Shawn Bayern wrote: Once again, I'm happy to announce a new Early Access release of the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Early Access Release 3 introduces tags for database access and

RE: Struts 1.1 book available for order

Hi, Does anyone get the book: Struts Fast Track: J2EE / JSP Framework already? I tried to order this book from AtlasBooks over the phone; however, they told me this book is still printing and it will not be available until Jan. 4, 2001. Is it true? Sophia

Re: Struts 1.1 book available for order

Cheng, Sophia wrote: Hi, Does anyone get the book: Struts Fast Track: J2EE / JSP Framework already? I tried to order this book from AtlasBooks over the phone; however, they told me this book is still printing and it will not be available until Jan. 4, 2001. Is it true? Sophia

RE: Struts 1.1 book available for order

I got the same reply from Atlas. -Original Message- From: Cheng, Sophia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:43 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' (E-mail) Subject: RE: Struts 1.1 book available for order Hi, Does anyone get the book: Struts Fast

RE: multiple buttons on a form

This submits the form to one action class regardless of the action. I do not want to check for what type of action. If you set the action before submitting the form you can get the servlet to execute that action class. I also want to use the image for the submit. The problem occurs under

ActionForm and ActionMapping Access From JSP page

Hi, What's the *best* way in struts to access ActionForm instance (may be in request or session scope) from a JSP script (note, not using struts tags, e.g. for displaying a label that is using data from ActionFrom cache ) ? Similarly what's the best way for a JSP page to access ActionMapping

load() exception

Not sure if you managed to solve your problem but I was having a similar problem getting struts to work on Websphere v3.5.4 I ended up doing the foloowing to get it to work: in the .xml (struts_config and web) and .dtd files change the word PUBLIC to SYSTEM extract the .dtd files from

NewBie Q: How to output your array - LabelValueBean

Hello, I was trying to take Mr. Husted's subscription example and create an array to hold multiple instances: % java.util.ArrayList list = new java.util.ArrayList(); list.add(new com.hfa.register.LabelValueBean(address, address)); % Might sound like a simple question, but how can i output

Re: struts.net?

f@#* ASP.NET! Just say no! Could'nt resist. THAnks:) - Original Message - From: Peter Bismuti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 4:26 AM Subject: struts.net? Has anyone ported or considered porting struts to asp.net? Before you respond

RE: struts.net?

This would be a complete waste of time. Any Struts port to .NET would be used if and only if Microsoft added Struts application generation features to its .NET development tools. This will not happen. Even though Struts is open source, product management fundamentals are still applicable.

f@#* ASP.NET

Well said My only contribution to the struts user group. You have to have a sense of humor!

RE: struts.net?

Oh boy! Did I just hear someone yell fire in a movie theater full of firemen?!? Hopefully, the majority of the firemen will remain calm and we won't see Peter get crushed to death but firemen trying to (constructively or not) help Peter see the light. (Apache.org seems to me to be quite happy

RE: struts.net?

Lol, I love .NET. You really don't need Struts with ASP.NET, it already has the core functionality that Struts aims to provide as part of its native architecture. Obviously it's a different approach and people will argue ad infinitum whether or not it's better or worse; or, if Java rules and

What is the placeholder character for ActionError?

The doc for ActionError states: An encapsulation of an individual error message returned by the validate() method of an ActionForm, consisting of a message key (to be used to look up message text in an appropriate message resources database) plus up to four placeholder objects that can be used

RE: how to deal with Variable form elements in struts

I am doing something similar. Our forms are 100% dynamic. The contents on them is not know in advance to write all the setters and getters. The form is generated based on the user and some database values. I am using logic:iterate to create the forms. If you iterate on a Map you can pass a

RE: What is the placeholder character for ActionError?

{#} Where # is 1, 2, 3 or 4. For example: You encountered the {0} problem. += Jeff Knee -Original Message- From: SHURTLEFF,ROBERT (HP-FtCollins,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What is the placeholder

RE: form initialization

Here's a javascript function that will clear all the values in a form: function clearForm(frmObj){ for(var i = 0; i frmObj.length; i++){ if(frmObj.elements[i].type.indexOf(text) == 0){ frmObj.elements[i].value=; }

RE: How to extract multiple columns of data in an logic:iterate tag ?

I have submitted a patch once for solving this, but it seems to not have made it in CVS. Here's the patch again (against current CVS) hth, tomK -Original Message- From: Uladzimir Kavalchuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 13 december 2001 12:44 To: 'Struts Users Mailing

howto set html:select value=[bean value]

I am trying to extract my ActionForm's .getApp() property into the 'value=' attribute. html:select size=1 property=app value=bean:write name=AttributesForm property=app/ html:options property=applications labelProperty=applicationLabels / /html:select But I get the below error. Can

several ActionForm accessing one Action class

Hi, all. I have several ActionForm that needs to access one Action class. Is this possible? thanks, Cris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

preselected checkboxes

Hi, all. I have several checkboxes in several JSP pages. In each page, there are different sets of checkboxes that needs to be in checked status during page loads. The option I have in mind is to make a separate ActionForm and Action class for each page but I thought that maintenance wise this

WebLogic6.1 can't start correctly with STRUTS?

Hi all, When I start WebLogic6.1, I get these errors below. How to fix it? Please help me!!! register('-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN', 'zip:D:/bea/w lserver6/./config/mydomain/applications/DefaultWebApp/WEB-INF/_tmp_war_myserver_

Re: WebLogic6.1 can't start correctly with STRUTS?

Are you connected to the internet? Sometimes this will happen if you're not connected to the internet. I found the following answer in the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg10824.html Hong Xing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When I start WebLogic6.1, I

Re: What is the placeholder character for ActionError?

What is the placeholder character that will get replaced in the error message string? The placeholder is {D}, where D is a digit between 1 and 5. In other words, you might have something like this in your ApplicationResources.properties: error.basic=An error occured, here is some

Newbie question about caching data for forms

Hi all, I've been reading through a lot of the Struts info available on the web in various places, and I have a question I'm hoping one of you more experienced folks can answer. There is something simple that I think I'm still not getting. How, using the tag libraries of Struts, can I do the

: WebLogic6.1 can't start correctly with STRUTS?

I just changed my web.xml. Then it worked OK. Old: !DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC -//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 1.2//EN http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd; Changed: !DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC -//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN

Re: Newbie question about caching data for forms

Hello Reid, Your question is of many folds. check for === for my sugestions below. Hope it helps you. --Shashi. - Original Message - From: Reid Pinchback [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 9:12 AM Subject: Newbie question about caching data for

Re: preselected checkboxes

You can have one FormBean having the scope set to session (in struts-config.xml), used accross all the JSP pages. In the JSP pages use the jsp:useBean tag to have the same FormBean in the session. In all the JSP send the action to a single action class. To distinguish between different pages in

How to solve it???

Hello, This is a plain JSP - HTML code: -- % for(i=0; iobjUsers.size(); i++){ tmpuser=objUsers.getUser(i); % trtd input type=checkbox name=user value=%= tmpuser.getUserId()% %=tmpuser.getUserId()%td/tr % } %

Passing url parameters using command structure url

I am using commmand structure urls to hide my jsp views. I need to pass a query string to an action from the view. How do I accomplish this? I have tried http://www.mysite.com/do/next?page=2 but the url brings up an error. I have read Ted Husted's catalog and am not sure I see or understand how

JSTL (standard taglib) Early Access 3

Once again, I'm happy to announce a new Early Access release of the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Early Access Release 3 introduces tags for database access and incorporates some changes to the internationalization and XML-manipulation libraries. The reference implementation is available

Re: JSTL (standard taglib) Early Access 3

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Paul DuBois wrote: I haven't seen this in the docs that I've read so far. Is this: - something I should just know - an oversight in the docs or the distribution - complete coincidence that installing js.jar fixed my pages :-) It's definitely not the latter. :-) I've