Switching Locale anywhere

I have a very common user requirement, that is, to allow switching the locale on every page. I can easily write an action which take the selected locale and the invoking page as input and forward the response back to the invoking page. However, if that invoking page is the result of some

Newbie Struts-Config.xml help

I need to implement struts on my application. My application functions like page1.jsp -- servlet -- javabeans(database access) -- page2.jsp page2.jsp -- servlet -- javabeans -- page3.jsp I have implemented struts using action mappings but it only works when I use a URL link and has .do

Re: Problem with Struts, Tiles, getAString, and bean:write

It's the first report of such problem. Is it a random problem, or can you reproduce it as you want ? Stack trace indicate a runtime failure. Maybe you can try to recompile Tiles with jars and Java set in your environment. Do you use java1.3 or 1.4 ? Tiles and Struts are compiled with 1.3.

Re: is there drawdown select box in struts?

Subject: Re: is there drawdown select box in struts? From: zb cong [EMAIL PROTECTED] === thanks for your answer see my code html:select property=singleSelect size=10 html:option value=Single 0Single 0/html:option html:option value=Single 1Single 1/html:option

RE: paging taglib and struts?

John, I am using this taglib quite extensively and it works very well with Struts. Below is a fairly basic example jsp. Essentially, the pager url attribute specifies the destination when any of the navigation links is clicked. Request parameters required by the action class can be specified

Form values

I would like to make an update of some values of a form and for that, I have to take back some values in a database and set the values of the form fields relevant to each. I'm trying to use the set Method of the form bean but I got no value back in my form. Could someone help ? Daniel W.

File upload - binary file checksum issue

Hi, I'm using Struts 1.0's multipart form functionality and it doesn't appear to be correctly pulling binary content from the request to disk. Using the sample 'struts-upload.war' app on NT, I've tried to upload then write a 600kb Word doc. The file successfully uploaded but the copied version

ANN: Best Practice with Expresso Framework 2nd Edition Feb 2002

Hiya Just got back from my two week break, and found that my article, Best Practice with Expresso Framework, second edition has been published on the TheServerSide.com. Because Expresso 4.0 uses the Jakarta Struts MVC model, it may be relevant to you Struts guys as well.

Re: White Paper on Struts

Hi Larry, Excellent - well done. This looks like the sort of thing beginners shoud print out study. From a quick look at it, I'd say it should be put on the struts web-site or at least be a recommended link. Keith. --- Maturo, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been collecting, in a document,

Re: Slight misunderstanding regarding Form-beans

You are not alone Thorbjørn! See. http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg20608.html Keith. --- Thorbjørn_Ravn_Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: torsdag februar 28 2002 kl. 03:53 PM skrev David A. D. Konrad: I am trying to create my first real struts application,

RE: White Paper on Struts

Hi, truth spoken here It should not be on the recommended page tough... It should be required reading before asking any further questions (eg in the mailing list). Alexander -Original Message- From: keithBacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Montag, 4. März 2002 14:12 To: Struts

Re: Best way to deal with Form object String parameters into another bean?

Subject: Re: Best way to deal with Form object String parameters into another bean? From: Will Jaynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Are there any plans to enhance BeanUtils so that a more general conversion can take place (like from string to date). I notice the BeanUtil javadocs have a Converter

RE: File upload - binary file checksum issue

Peter, This should be fixed as of version 1.0.1, and will definately not be an issue as in 1.1 -Original Message- From: Towns, Peter (ANTS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:48 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: File upload - binary file checksum issue Hi,

Re: Getting a ServletContext

Try this. ActionServlet servlet = getServlet(); ServletContext ctxt = servlet.getServletContext(); -mel h Eddie Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys/gals =) I'm trying to get a ServletContext object in one of my actions... but I don't seem to be having any luck. Here is what I've

ActionForm class cast exception error

I keep getting a ClassCastException during runtime in one of my Action classes. This is a runtime error, but it compiles cleanly. In my application framework, I have defined a class named ListActionForm that extends the ActionForm. I extend the ListActionForm with a class named

File upload

In case anybody ran into the error Cannot find message resources under key org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE. when trying the Struts File upload example in the nightly build. Here's the solution thanks to the bugfixers: Add a dummy init parameter to the web.xml file like so: servlet

Re: is there drawdown select box in struts?

remove the 'size=10' - Original Message - From: Struts Newsgroup @[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:25 AM Subject: Re: is there drawdown select box in struts? Subject: Re: is there drawdown select box in struts? From: zb cong [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: White Paper on Struts

Hi John, Glad to hear it. It represents many painful hours of labor over struts. :-) -- Larry -Original Message- From: John Menke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 1:27 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: White Paper on Struts Larry, Thanks for

LabelValueBean

I'm getting a deserialization error in Tomcat during a reinit pointing to LabelValueBean. Checking out the current CVS source, I note that it doesn't implement Serializable. Is there a reason why it doesn't implement this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Empty and Equal

Subject: Empty and Equal From: Tim Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Hi all, 1) Didnt the struts taglib use to have a way to test if a collection is empty? I cant seem to find it anymore. I have a bean that contains an ArrayList. I want to Output a message if that ArrayList is empty.

RE: Form Bean problem - Fixed for now

Right, I'm back (finally!) I narrowed the problem down to a struts-config problem. I deleted everything from struts-config that wasn't related to the one page that I was having problems with. I then found that the page would work, and not give me the getter missing error. So went back to my

RE: Methods In Action Class

Ted, I am very much interested in this. Could you give a short sample code for this approach? We used to use Javascript here to stop multiple submission but now we are using struts and Javascript is out. Thank you very much, Yanhui -Original Message- From: Ted Husted

RE: Methods In Action Class

Here's a link that describes the pattern. You have to buy the book for full effect: http://www.phptr.com/corej2eepatterns/codeChap5.html /Ross -Original Message- From: Yu, Yanhui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:21 AM To: 'Ted Husted'; Struts Users

Re: Newbie Struts-Config.xml help

I'm new, so take this answer with a grain of salt... The link syntax is different than the submit button syntax. For a HTML link it would look something like: html:link page=/testFinishReason.do bean:message key=finishReasonTest.testLink/ /html:link But for a submit button the coding

RE: White Paper on Struts

Me too. Thanks again Larry. John Menke john@eagleinfosy

any plans to develop html:radio further?

Hi, are there any plans to build on html:radio? I am building a form dynamically from a result set out of the database and html:radio would be fine if it would read the value attribute from a bean. It would be nice to have a labelName labelProperty attributes. At the moment I have to

RE: White Paper on Struts

I am a new user and I thought your white paper was excellent and provided some much needed glue. There seems to be more and more references for struts, but not many *cook books*. All I can say is more ! :) Thanks again. Maturo, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/04/2002 09:32:25 AM

Re: Empty and Equal

Subject: Re: Empty and Equal From: Tim Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Sorry, clarify a bit on part 1. i have found a way to do this using bean:size and then checking using logic:equal versus logic:notEqual but I was wondering more on if there was a one liner (or taglib) solution that I could use.

Advice requested, what's the best way to mimic tab panes in Struts?

Hi Folks: We're converting much of our GUI (written in JFC/Swing) to thin client using HTML-JavaScript and the struts framework. I have converted a few of the simpler maintenance screens using the framework and (thanks to you all) have learned quite a bit with struts. There is a screen that I

AW: Advice requested, what's the best way to mimic tab panes in Struts?

You can work with one form to display/insert the data. Because you populate your form in the action class. I would validate your form data in the action and then pass the form to a special DAO Object which handles the SQL Statements, including transaction handling. This means you need the

AW: Advice requested, what's the best way to mimic tab panes in Struts?

Sorry forgot to say, hold your form in the session, so you are able to give the user more steps to include this. -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 4. Marz 2002 18:11 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Advice requested,

Re: Advice requested, what's the best way to mimic tab panes in Struts?

1 ActionForm (session scope), 5 ActionMappings, one Action, 5 JSPs. Each tab has link which submits form with that tab's form values, the tab submit link is differentiated by mapping parameter attribute (or hidden form field). ActionForm validate checks data is OK. Each submit of the current tab

RE: White Paper on Struts

While I haven't had chance to read it in detail, the direction of the document is wonderful. My question to you is whether you had considered (or were able to) publish it as a PDF? I know that it would be useful to a greater range of people as a PDF. I have all the necessary facilities to do

RE: any plans to develop html:radio further?

Hi Adam, This may not be exactly what you want, but look at the white paper, under Model Layer Framework, at http://stealthis.athensgroup.com/presentations/. There is a section on using the indexed attribute under logic:iterate, and it has a table of radio buttons example that uses the indexed

RE: White Paper on Struts

Hi Simon, Good idea. I believe we can do that here. Let me look into it. -- Larry -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:26 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: White Paper on Struts While I haven't had chance

Handling exceptions

Almost every of my action classes has the try/catch block. And I catch different types of exceptions that may be thrown + Throwable at the end } catch ( ... ) { log(...); // add error; } catch (Throwable t) { log(...); // add error I found that in struts example

RE: Handling exceptions

Catching Throwable will catch both Exceptions and Errors. Catching Exception will only catch Exceptions. You will want to catch Exceptions *AND* Errors to be bullet-proof. We were catching Exception for a while and we thought we were covered, until one day we got (due to some weird deployment) a

Re: Best way to deal with Form object String parameters intoanother bean?

You can search to your heart's content here: http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/ ___ - mark h. nichols - dhsv022 at dhs dot state dot il dot us Ooo. They've got the Internet on computers now. - Homer Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

why would type and name attributes be necessary in html:form in this case?

I have two pages, selectEditQuestion.jsp and EditQuestion.jsp. First you select the question you want to edit, then you edit it, simple enough. Here's the strange thing: The form tag in the first page (selectEditQuestion.jsp) is set up in the standard way, and that's fine: html:form

DB Connection pool

Subject: DB Connection pool From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === re: http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg23194.html Any suggestions on a supported and open source connection pool ? (non expresso) Vic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Subject: DB Connection pool

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RE: why would type and name attributes be necessary in html:form in this case?

You have shown two of your defined actions selectEditQuestion and editQuestion. However your form tags refer to saveQuestion. I'm wondering what form bean saveQuestion is bound to. Perhaps your page comes up blank because saveQuestion is not bound to the correct form bean? /Ross

Internal Servlet Error

Internal Servlet Error: javaxservletServletException: Cannot find ActionMappings or ActionFormBeans collection This error message appears in my application Anybody knows what's the problem?

Struts White Paper

At the request of Simon P. Chappell I have put up a pdf copy of the Struts White paper for those that don't have MS Word. Thanks Simon. I should have done that already, but I hadn't thought about it. -- Larry Maturo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: Internal Servlet Error

ActionMappings and the ActionFormBeans collection are specified in the struts-config.xml file, located in the WEB-INF sub-directory. You could check to see if the XML file exists. -Original Message- From: Fábio Queiroz Barbosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:22

Digester Question

I realize that the digester is now part of commons, but I figure there is probably a lot of expertise here since it grew up in Struts. I was wondering if someone could help me figure out the easiest way to do this: I have an xml document, that holds form data, I would like to use the

Re: Internal Servlet Error

I put in my struts-config.xml file the code below: data-source autoCommit=true description=My Data Source driverClass=sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver maxCount=4 minCount=2 password=myPass url=jdbc:odbc://myhostIntranet_db

Re: Digester and inheritance

the beaninfo is all in the parent class - Component... --Stacy - Original Message - From: dIon Gillard To: Struts Users Mailing List Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: Re: Digester and inheritance Stacy Weng wrote: I have a parent class called Component,

Re: Advice requested, what's the best way to mimic tab panes in Struts?

One other question though now that I am looking at this a little closer: Each of my individual JSP's should not have a Submit/Cancel/Reset for each page.I was thinking about having one and only one Submit/Cancel button. So I would probobly use a Frame and have a target window (which would

RE: bean:message default key?

Man! Is this a hard one? :( -Original Message- From: Hani Hamandi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:49 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List (E-mail) Subject: bean:message default key? Folks, Is there any way to tell bean:message, if you can't find this key, then

RE: Handling exceptions

OK, that was helpful - now I see it from different perspective. But what if somebody argues that Throwable catches also JVM exceptions, like ThreadDeath or OutOfMemory and similar? Should I care about that or not? If not then why? Dariusz Wojtas At 13:14 02-03-04 -0500, you wrote:

Re: bean:message default key?

Hani, No, its easy :-) , just see the sourcecode for org.apache.struts.MessageTAG, remove the JSPException that is thrown and return the key. joachim gjesdal Hani Hamandi wrote: Man! Is this a hard one? :( -Original Message- From: Hani Hamandi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

How to avoid session conflict in 2 windows?

I have some struts app that works perfectly, but I may have some problems if the user opens another window in the same session (Ctrl + N). The browser introduces itself with the same cookie in both windows. Is there any way to avoid this? I was thinking about using filters and 2 cookies. 1st

RE: bean:message default key?

Ok, and then what? Re-jar struts myself with this new source-code? Thanks! -Original Message- From: Joachim Gjesdal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:27 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: bean:message default key? Hani, No, its easy :-) , just see the

Tomcat startup slowed down seriously by struts - any help?

Hi, I'm running tomcat as my development server and with struts it's really slow to start up. It's a slow machine. Is it that the struts xml DTD references are causing Tomcat to try to connect over the net to get them? If this is the case, can I stop it somehow? Thanks Adam Find the best

Re: bean:message default key?

Yeah, and then submit the patch and ask a comitter if this would be better than throwing an exception. I´m all for it! if (message == null) { /* JspException e = new JspException (messages.getMessage(message.message, key));

RE: Internal Servlet Error

If your struts-config.xml does not parse as well-formed XML, then you will get this error. You need to make sure that the data-source element is a child of data-sources. Also make sure that you place it in the right location. See element declaration for struts-config. data-sources data-source

creating a variable set to return value of a method - using struts

Hi All, I am trying to achieved the following code below using only tags: % HashMap myMap = someClass.getMyMap(); myMap.put(1, one); % someClass would return a HashMap. I can't seem to find an example of how this can be done. can someone point me to an example (or show me a example)? -

Tables

Has anyone created JSPs containing a table? Is there anything in Struts that supports tables? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ping on 1.1 or Tiles/Nightly working

My understanding is that the Tiles in the contrib folder of the Nightly Build does work with the latest changes to ActionServlet. When the beta is posted, it will just be a snapshot of the current Nightly Build. There's only the one CVS and only the one development list. There's nothing behind

Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

I am planning to use the Nesting Extension in my application and would like to field comments on how to best implement a database persistance mechanism in this framework. The MonkeyStruts example uses one ActionForm bean on the outermost level that links to other beans recursively in a parent

RE: Tables

Hi Michael, See the logic:iterate tag. It is useful in creating tables, but it is not a table tag by any means. You would then use bean:write to put data in the table within the iterate tag. -- Larry Maturo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Michael Nadeau [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Ping on 1.1 or Tiles/Nightly working

Subject: Re: Ping on 1.1 or Tiles/Nightly working From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Add this in Struts-config: controller processorClass=org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor /controller Vic Sean Willson wrote: I wanted to ping any developers that may be listening to

Re: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

John Menke wrote: I am planning to use the Nesting Extension... sweet :) The MonkeyStruts example uses one ActionForm bean on the outermost level that links to other beans recursively in a parent child heirarchy. It looks like each child bean in the hierarchy is instantiated from

RE: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

you could drive it exactly as you've described having the beans manage their dirty state and have a one-to-one level mapping from the persistence mechanism to nested bean (ie: have each nested bean know how it's to be stored). There are various ways to take this back to the MVC paradigm keeping

validate() and session expiry

I've got a problem and I'm not sure whether it's my poor design or a struts limitation. I'd appreciate it if someone can shed some light. Let me know if you require more details. I have an action mapping for an update my profile page with an associated ActionForm and validate=true. In order to

Re: validate() and session expiry

We had the same issue to deal with. What we did was in our ActionServet (which subclassed Struts ActionServlet), was to override the processPreprocess method, which is called for every request. We checked the session there, instead of in every Action perform method. If the session is expired

RE: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

Aaron, what do you think of implementing the Observable interface with the DataBeans? This could help with detecting updates. (Inserts and Deletes are easier because you can determine the action via querying the submit button). -john -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: validate() and session expiry

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 19:20, Matt Read wrote: I can see a solution where in validation() methods I check that the session is still valid but this seems clumsy to me Is it good MVC design for the request to be handled by the Model before the Controller gets to see it? Am I

Re: Newbie Struts-Config.xml help

Yes I already did that. I use html:forms action=/forms on my forms. The problem is, it does not work. The values are not passed. But I can see that the servlet is doing its job of connecting to the database because I prompted the servlet to System.out.println(some text here); and I can see that

RE: validate() and session expiry

Thanks, that sounds like a good solution. My only reservation is that in processPreprocess() you'd have to effectively hard-code a list of the request paths that require a user to login. I suppose you have to do it somewhere though. Matt. -Original Message- From: Chuck Cavaness

RE: validate() and session expiry

Your problem is slightly different than ours. In our application, the user had to be logged in to go anywhere. This mechanism was a way to catch the problem when a user has already logged in and let's the session timeout. They then invoke an action that has a form that uses the session object

Re: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

Well, yeah. That'd do the trick too. Probably in a fashion that would be manageable, clean, and garner the respect of OO gurus, developers and peers alike. Very apt solution. You can notify the observer from inside your setters rather than query the submit button. Mainly because you will have

Re: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

I like beans managing dirty state becuause I could possibly have one method that can handle several different structures if it's designed right. Maybe this: Have all DataBeans implement an interface lets day DirtyInterface that defines 2 methods: public String getDirtyAttribute()

Re: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

I don't think what you guys are discussing, is too far off from the Simper framework I've developed: http://www.netmeme.org/simper/ It doesn't have anything to do with the current Nesting library, but, it does many of the things you've discussed in this thread, including automatic change

RE: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

Bryan, i just wish I could have both Simper and Nesting working at once, it would be the best of both worlds. I'm pretty sure the Nesting Extension needs concrete classes to work (maybe Aaron will correct me). I have looked into simper and it looks great, I just don't know how to make the

RE: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

Aaron, I think this is the way to go. Notify the observer from within the setter making sure the data has changed. I think I can make an Observer class that will store a collection of objects that have changed. Then I can query this collection in the Action and perform the updates. Maybe I

Re: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

Mutually exclusive domains of operation. I don't see any reason as to why the nested tags wouldn't work with simper. The tags are just that. tags. They will interpret any bean they get their hands on when the JSP gets evaluated. So simper and NeXt could possibly be perfect buddies. The tags