Re: when to use Struts

Yeah, I know what I am saying would be like reinventing the wheel, and thus the point of using a framework (to not reinvent the wheel). However, my main concern is that learning to use this 'wheel' might take longer than building one myself. And with the great books coming soon, you will

Tiles, overriding extended definitions and Breadcrumbing

Summary: Can a page override a sub-definition? Im trying to do breadcrumb, whee. I've made a page definition with over-riddes... works great. Having a subLayout definition SEEMED to work ok, until I tried to override parts of the sub-definition. In other words, the body definition for

focus on a radio button causes a javascript exception

if I use a tag ...html:form action=/FieldList focus= %=sFirstFocusedField%... for a variable sFirstFocusedField who can be the name of any generated input field of my html form; the javascript exception: document.forms.FieldListForm.elements.field4.focus is not a function happend when

Re: Struts Community is going crazy! :-))

Contributing to the documentation isn't any different than contributing to the codebase. Just figure out where it should go and submit a patch or enhancement request through bugzilla. A list of which classes must be extended and which can be used as-is (whitebox vs blackbox) could be handled

RE: Tiles, overriding extended definitions and Breadcrumbing

So Im guessing tiles doesnt support overriding child definitions? Yes, you are correct. If you are trying to use trail in page.arc to over-ride trail in page.tile.crumb, that's not going to work.but thenyou already know that :) James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist

conversion projects(oracle forms to j2ee struts)

Does anyone have had experience on converting an existing oracle forms 6.0 application to Struts. The important factor to keep in mind is the model in (MVC) should be the same currently residing on forms. Thanks Naga -Original Message- From: mailinglist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Struts Community is going crazy! :-))

Is there a description, dtd or schema for the documentations? regards Alexander -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Montag, 19. August 2002 13:08 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts Community is going crazy! :-)) Contributing to the

RE: Checkbox in iterate

Hey, You kinda confused me about what your problem was. Could you maybe explain it better if I'm wrong about it? It sounds like you just want to know which rows are checked. You need to specify the 'indexId' attribute in the logic:iterate ... tag to create a variable that stores the index of

RE: Checkbox in iterate

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the corresponding property would be a String[] that will be filled with all the checked indexes. Is this what you're trying to do? ~ Keith http://www.buffalo.edu/~kkamholz -Original Message- From: Kamholz, Keith (corp-staff) USX [mailto:[EMAIL

Exception Handling

Hi there, I need to do exception handling if the instance of userSession that i get in my action classes is a null. (For e.g. it would be null if the session timed out) But i happened to stumble on the code for Struts Action.java from struts jar. Now this file has the following code

RE: when to use Struts

Neal, We've been using Struts for about 4 months now. I originally started with 1.0, then went to 1.1b1, and now 1.1b2. The initial learning curve was fairly easy; learning some of the new features of 1.1 has taken some time (some of the new things I haven't even had time to try!). Once you

html:link - How to avoid the browser cache

Hi, Is there a way to avoid getting the response from the browser cache when using the tag html:link. Some tag libraries provide an attribute to add a unique parameter (some random value) in the URL request. This is a workaround that prevents the browser from finding a page in the cache. The

RE: Checkbox in iterate

I'm gone trough this problem whith checking the paramaters recieved in the request, againt the array used to iterate. Unchecked checkboxes are not in the request; so I'needed to check any field expected (so many as the length of the collection used for the iteration) , tried to find a parameter

Referecing properties using ActionErrors class

In my web.xml, I'm loading the properties file (RSVPResources) using the Action servlet: servlet servlet-nameaction/servlet-name servlet-classorg.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet/servlet-class init-param param-nameapplication/param-name param-valueRSVPResources/param-value /init-param

write all bean properties

Hi, I apologize because this is probably a newbie question but I couldn't find any answers in the archives, so I'm posting here: I'm looking for a way to display all my bean properties. So I have this bean that holds all this user information and might change sometimes. but I don't want to change

RE: when to use Struts

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, neal wrote: In the short term, it may take longer. It really depends on how easily you can learn, which nobody here can really gauge. The best way to determine that would be to read through the User's Guide on the Struts website, take a peek at the Javadocs, and run through

Re: write all bean properties

What I did was passing another bean as an arrayList with the names of all the properties. After: logic:iterate name=NamesBean id=name bean:write name=bean property=%=name%/ /logic:iterate Not too acurate, but if i did not mistake, it works. If you find I cleaner solution, let me know. I

RE: Checkbox in iterate

Hmmm I'm confused, but probably just because I'm new to all this. I just started developing web applications this summer. There is one little trick that I came up with concerning checkboxes. I had problems reseting the boolean values in my bean to false when the user hit the form, so I

RE : A very, very strang problem, urgent help please

Hi Cliff and Adolfo, Thanks very much for your rapide responses. I have just returned to this list after being very busy to debug and deliver the application, excuse me. The problem is due to that there is a accent in in the URL (more precisely, in a html:link element). The problem is when I

RE: Passing Struts parameters to JavaScript functions.

Ok, I'll give that a try .. thanks. At 13:44 16/08/2002 -0700, you wrote: I guess you can do this as long as variables myCollection, x are in the script context(you need to put braces before getId()): ((elementType)myCollection.elementAt(x)).getId(); Mei -Original Message- From: Ray

Beating the REFRESH button.

Hello there again. I have a small problem with users hitting the refresh button whilst doing things with my application. Here's the scenario: User accesses view.do - an action which displays a list of data items, along with buttons to add, delete and edit data. If the add information, and

Validator - Locale - Variant

Hi all, I am trying to implement Internationalization based validation using the Struts Validator. The validation works fine when I just have the language and the country code as attributes for formset in validation.xml but it fails when I include a variant attribute in the formset. I am using

RE: Beating the REFRESH button.

Try changing the forward to your view.do in the struts-config to have redirect=true. This should result in refresh refreshing the url you end up at rather than the save.do ie: forward name=mysteryMachine path=/scooby.do?where=ru redirect=true/ (nb: redirecting this way will result in no

Re: write all bean properties

If got everything rigjht I have to create that NamesBean. That shouldn't such a great Problem. Would share youre code ? But I still wonder if there isn't an easier standard struts way. I thought that was a common problem ? thanx adolfo What I did was passing another bean as an arrayList

javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

I'm trying to set up a basic program to perform a logon action...I get said error: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon the line it falls over on is in index.jsp: html:form action=logon.do method=GET Am using JBuilder v6, with struts 1.0 and tomcat

RE: Config Tiles Plugins with Sub-Module....

Thanks, -Original Message- From: Cedric Dumoulin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 2:38 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Config Tiles Plugins with Sub-Module Hi, You need the Tiles plugin in each sub-module using the tiles definitions.

Re: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

The framework might not be able to create the Logon form bean. Is the Logon class in the classpath and have you specified the correct package? All you have is Logon, which seems to indicate you're using the default package. If it's something like com.foo.Logon, then you need to specify the

Re: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition forform bean Logon

hi html:form action=/logon method=GET ciao chriz Darren McGuinness wrote: I'm trying to set up a basic program to perform a logon action...I get said error: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon the line it falls over on is in index.jsp:

RE: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

I am guessing you are trying to get the bean in scope by directly accessing index.jsp. This will not associate your Logon bean with the page because no ActionMapping has yet occured (you have not invoked a path and associated bean in strutsconfig yet). Try having the initial URL go to

Re: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

Chriz, I thought about that, but Darren's using extension mapping. The docs for Form tag say that if extension mapping is being used (see his web.xml), that the extension should be included. I was half way through my email when I realized it and thought about the Form bean issue. Chuck

RE: struts-example.war

I had the same problem with Weblogic 6.1 SP 2 for Struts 1.1b1. It could not find the MessageResource file at runtime. Here is the error message: Aug 16, 2002 6:08:16 PM EDT Error HTTP [WebAppServletContext(593524,strut s-example,/struts-example)] Root cause of ServletException

HELP!!! Web App hangs after repeated queries....

I hope someone can point me in the right direction on how to resolve the following issue. Our environment is Windows NT (Service Pack 5 and 6); have also seen this on Solaris 5.8 Apache 1.3.26 Tomcat 3.3.1 Struts 1.1 Beta 2 Java 2 SDK 1.4.0_01 We have an

Re: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

index.jsp doesn't access the bean ? here's my index.jsp: -- %@ page language=java% %@ 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 prefix=logic% html:html

linking to a page on different domain

I have a fairly simple problem, but can't figure out how to resolve it within the Struts framework. What I want to do is link to a page on a different server / domain. Normally, you just put like a href=http://www.otherdomain.com/page?q1=v1 tag (or the struts link tag). This circumvents the

declarative DynBeanForm questions

Hi: I have some question about DynaBeanForm declarations, for example, in this code question 1: struts-config.xml ... form-bean name=insertNotebookForm dynamic=true type=org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm form-property name=startDate

RE: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

Let's see your struts-config.xml -Original Message- From: Darren McGuinness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:14 PM index.jsp doesn't access the bean ? here's my index.jsp: -- %@ page language=java% %@ taglib

Re: linking to a page on different domain

Mike, If you don't know what the parameters are when you have the opportunity to write the link URL, that means you need the user to submit the form. You could have them submit the form directly to the other domain. If you need to see their choices first, you could do your processing and then

Re: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1 ? !DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC -//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.0//EN http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_0.dtd; struts-config !-- == Form Bean Definitions

RE: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

Change your action to /logon and see if that helps. Mark -Original Message- From: Darren McGuinness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:14 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

Re: HELP!!! Web App hangs after repeated queries....

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Jerry Jalenak wrote: Chances are you are not releasing your database resources correctly. I may be wrong, but you should explicitly close your statement, resultset, and connections using the close() method instead of setting them to null. You can use the isClosed() method

RE: Beating the REFRESH button.

What if you want to put a success message in the request so your view.do can display the message when they've successfully added information? Then you have to use the forward method (not redirect) and the refresh problem still exists. Is there a way around this? Thanks, Dave Try changing

RE: XP (and not the Microsoft kind)

XP is great, but it's not necessarily new. People have been doing rapid agile development for years and just might not know it by that name. The real value is the fact that it can be molded for any situation and it's not the type of methodology where you MUST follow every step. If you can't do

Re: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean Logon

Darren, I'm not sure where you are with this (if you've fixed it or not), but the new error messages is telling you that the requestId attributes are different. Notice in your Logon form, the attribute is requestId and in the tag attribute, you have requestid. The i capitalization is

RE: Struts Community is going crazy! :-))

This may or may not be what you're looking for, but I've been trying to organize patterns in the following diagram that's meant to show, among other things, where all the routine http request sub-activities should be coded. I color coded the activities to identify those that can be coded in more

RE: HELP!!! Web App hangs after repeated queries....

Melissa, Thanks for the response - it caused of those DOH! (slap head here) realizations! I added the code to close the resultset, preparedstatement, and connection objects, compiled the class, and was able to go through about 30 queries without seeing the increase in memory that I was

RE: Struts Community is going crazy! :-))

Dan, That is a great diagram. It will save me LOADS of time explaining or training people on Struts... Thanks for the contribution, Tim

iPlanet and Struts 1.02 problem

I have exhausted the message board(s) and online resource. Problem with an extra slash / being added to the front of my form action and links, examples from little app i wrote and struts-example app: Example 1: form name=panelForm method=POST action=//do/panelForm;jsessionid= Example 2:

upgrade 1.1-b1 to 1.1-b2 breaks indexed attribute under iterate ?

Hi All, I've been attempting to upgrade a web app from jakarta-struts-1.1-b1 to jakarta-struts-1.1-b2.zip and it appears to be breaking some code. Specifically a piece of code 'Using the Indexed Attribute in the Scope of the Iterate Tag' (as in 'Using Struts' by Maturo). jsp:- logic:iterate

FW: iPlanet and Struts 1.02 problem

-Original Message- From: Jason Muse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 1:32 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: iPlanet and Struts 1.02 problem I have exhausted the message board(s) and online resource. Problem with an extra slash / being added to the front of

RE: iPlanet and Struts 1.02 problem

Jason: I had the same problem and I finally gave up. What I did is I put my application in a context and everything from there worked fine. If anyone else can shed some light on this, I would greatly appreciated. Otherwise the context solution is the way to go I think. iPlanet web serve and

RE: iPlanet and Struts 1.02 problem

I will take a look at it and get back with you. -Mark -Original Message- From: Jason Muse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 1:32 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: iPlanet and Struts 1.02 problem I have exhausted the message board(s) and online resource.

RE: Struts Community is going crazy! :-))

That is a great diagram! I like the color-coding and best-practices of where to implement specific types of functionality. Great Job!! Jason -Original Message- From: Dan Cancro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:17 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject:

RE: Struts Community is going crazy! :-))

ditto - and it prints out great on an HP plotter. Mark -Original Message- From: Jason Rosen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 1:57 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Struts Community is going crazy! :-)) That is a great diagram! I like the

Struts-config_1_1.dtd

I've noticed with the online version of the struts config dtd file that the plug-in element is not defined? Is there a scheduled time where this will be updated? Here is the url that I'm using: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd;. Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe,

RE: Exception Handling

If you are looking to catch the session timeout, then you could implement HttpSessionBindingListener and wrap your session in it. When the session expires, the HttpSessionBindingListener can execute some code. For example, if you need to log a user out of a database or other network resource

RE: validator plugin

Michael, I ran into this problem myself and the online review chapters of Chuck Cavaness' Struts book provided the answer. According to the chapter on the Struts Validator, There was some confusion in one of the earlier beta releases for the Validator that used multiple set-property

Re: Struts-config_1_1.dtd

Hey Mike, I'm confused about what you think is wrong about the online version of the DTD? I looked at the file and the plug-in definition starts on line 612. Perhaps you overlooked it. -james [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/ --- Benson, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: linking to a page on different domain

The second choice sounds better. Is there a substantive difference between using redirect vs. using URLConnection? They seem very similar to me. Mike Mike, If you don't know what the parameters are when you have the opportunity to write the link URL, that means you need the user to submit

RE: Struts-config_1_1.dtd

It may be a problem with our proxy. It looks like the file is not complete. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: James Holmes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 1:40 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts-config_1_1.dtd Hey Mike,

RE: Struts Community is going crazy! :-))

Excellent diagram. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Dan Cancro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:17 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Struts Community is going crazy! :-)) This may or may not be what you're looking for, but I've been trying to

Re: conversion projects(oracle forms to j2ee struts)

This should essentially be the same as using Swing client or other client-server model, some discussion of which you can find here: http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg35786.html http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg38308.html Does anyone

ConnectionPooling / java.net.SocketException

Hi, I have following problem: I have an application which works fine, if only one users is active. If two users act at nearly the same time I always get following error: Unexpected Exception: java.sql.SQLException message given: Communication link failure: java.net.SocketException. It seems to

Validator - Locale - Variant

Hi all, Sorry to send this message again...haven't got any response as yet...hoping that this mail would trigger some response/ideas to my problem. I am trying to implement Internationalization based validation using the Struts Validator. The validation works fine when I just have the language

Servlet Validation

Hi, I want all my jsps to be called through the ActionServlet instead of directly through a url. I've subclassed ActionServlet and overridden the process() method to do authentication. So, on every request it will check if the user is logged in and then provide the page they asked for. How

Re: upgrade 1.1-b1 to 1.1-b2 breaks indexed attribute under iterate ?

Take a look at your source code (view jsp source) The source being generate for the submit button is input type=submit name=cmd[0] value=Edit where the [0] is outside the quotes. The generated code should be input type=submit name=cmd[0] value=Edit With the currently generated

Log4JCategoryLog does not implement Log after upgrade to Struts 1.1-b2

What could cause this type of error in my index.jsp? It started after I upgraded to Struts 1.1-b2, but I get this message even after going back to the previous version. I'm sure it some configuration on this workstation because my other workstation was fine after the upgrade. Any hints or

RE: Servlet Validation

David, Look at using a filter or the better yet the SecurityFilter project by Max Cooper which mimics container managed security. SecurityFilter information can be found at: http://securityfilter.sourceforge.net Hope that helps. Regards, Todd G. Nist -Original Message- From: David

Re: linking to a page on different domain

Mike, The redirect will make the user's browser issue the request directly, which may be important if they are logged in or simply have session data there. Redirects are easy to code and will reduce the network load on your server. Unless you have a really good reason to use a URLConnection, the

Is thare any way to make struts handle Exceptions thrown from ?

Is thare any way to make struts handle Exceptions thrown from JSP custom tags? My goal the to make my application behave exactly as if the error was thrown from a Action object. thanx

Re: Servlet Validation

Good link. Thanks, Vic Todd G. Nist wrote: David, Look at using a filter or the better yet the SecurityFilter project by Max Cooper which mimics container managed security. SecurityFilter information can be found at: http://securityfilter.sourceforge.net Hope that helps. Regards,

Bad Day

My day is awful, I'm sick, I'm behind schedule, my wife is sick, my baby is sick, I'm behind schedule, I'm sick... It won't make any difference because I have to work this weekend anyway but can we pretend today is Friday? rjsjr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Decorators?

Greetings, A question I thought I'd run by the group here; surely someone else has found the appropriate approach. The plan is to build a struts-based site that has a standard templated layout. I've got a standard template.jsp which is a table that imports a header, footer, navigation

Correct Use of Validate w/nested beans

I would like to know how to use the validate function on nested beans in conjunction with the nested tags. Using multiple nested loops in the top level bean's validate methond doesn't seem like an elegant what to do itIn fact, it is downright crazy, I think, particularly if you have more

Re: Struts Community is going crazy! :-))

There a simple XLS stylesheet under doc/stylesheets. But for the most part, you should be able to learn through example. There is a build target that does the XML to HTML transformation. -Ted. Jesse Alexander (KADA 11) wrote: Is there a description, dtd or schema for the documentations?

RE: Decorators?

Take a look at tiles.. Its part of Struts 1.1 (currently in beta 2 I believe) or can be obtained separately.. The link to the current tiles docs are at http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/, unless they got moved to the struts contrib directory recently.. James -Original Message-

Struts Connection Pooling

Anyone have experience with Struts Connection pooling? If so, was it a positive experience? Easy to use? Stable? Fast? How does it compare to something such as Poolman? And, does any MySQL driver out their provide comparable connection pooling? Thanks. Neal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Tiles+Validator: Correct way to reference staticJavascript.jsp file?

I'm trying to build a simple prototype appliction which is using both Tiles and Validator. I got my Tiles code working pretty well, and then I started integrating Validator. I've also gotten this working, but I'm wondering if there's a better way to do some of the things I did. I have a

IFrame Newbie Looking for IFrame Advice

We're starting a new Struts app, and it might be nice to use IFrames in it. Are there any gotchas with iframes in a J2EE / Struts app that I should be aware of? For example, the WebLogic documentation states that normal frames can cause problems with the session id getting lost if improperly

RE: IFrame Newbie Looking for IFrame Advice

Probably the most glaring problem (IMO) is lack of support in pre-6.x Netscape browsers. See this URL for more details on IFrames: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/i/iframe.htm Note the Tips Tricks and Browser Peculiarities at the bottom. chris -Original Message-

RE: IFrame Newbie Looking for IFrame Advice

Stephen, As to the first part of your question, I can not say for certain if WebLogic will have the same problem with IFrames, I do not encounter any with JBoss, and since they are inline as part of the main HTML document I don't believe that you will have an issue. As for updating the

RE: Beating the REFRESH button.

Thanks very much ... :-) At 22:35 19/08/2002 +0800, you wrote: Try changing the forward to your view.do in the struts-config to have redirect=true. This should result in refresh refreshing the url you end up at rather than the save.do ie: forward name=mysteryMachine path=/scooby.do?where=ru

RE: Decorators? Tiles, the web developers best friend.

Here's what I have done in the past: (This describes the source code written for the hyperlink below my name. The source code is available by request.) Here is what my layout looks like on a web page: | .

RE: Bad Day

Sorry you didn't have any takers till now. BTW. I'm also sick. If I don't sound like it, its because I'm typing so you can't hear me, so there! ;) It's been one of those my head peels dike iss gudda esplode days. Hab a dice priday. James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist

RE: Bad Day

Unfordunetlee my ole family is mouse breeding wid hedaches... -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:09 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Bad Day Sorry you didn't have any takers till now. BTW. I'm also

Setting array of string in DynaActionForm

I hv a dynamic form and having problems to create array property in DynaActionForm. The following exception thrown when i reference to it. Could anyone help out!! regards, Stephen form-bean name=InventoryEnquiryForm dynamic=true

RE: Bad Day

LOLya. It hasn't hit the entire family yet. Hope you feel better. James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atlanta, the Open Minded Developer Network http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta -Original Message- From: Robert J. Sanford, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Multiple file upload?

hey... Other than the problem with struts and the same file-name... I need the same implementation for an application I'm writing. I wrote a prototype where you choose at run-time how many upload boxes you want on a form which will get set in an indexed property FormFile[]), then the struts

separating status messages and error messages-Getting the design right.

Hi all, I have just shifted from servlets to jsp + struts. I am still new to both. I have to create some jsp pages corresponding to some user actions. For example, the application administrator can click on add user link ( from left band menu which is in a separete frame ) and will be presented