c:url or html:link from http to https?

2003-02-20 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Is there a simple way (e.g. standard tag with some oddball parameter), which will let me do a standard c:url or html:link, except, rewrite the leading http://; as https://;? I don't want to insert a hack scriptlet every time I want to do this.. Would rather use a tag. But I can't seem to find

RE: Zero-copy persistence with Struts?

2002-10-25 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 00:55, Hookom, Jacob John wrote: I guess I'm lost as to why CachedRowSet is a zero copy? The source code for the basicPortal's still copies all the data into another, internal collection. Regards, Jacob Here's how my thinking has evolved since I opened

RE: Zero-copy persistence with Struts?

2002-10-25 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:33, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Conceptually, one can imagine a RowSet implementation that did not copy anything unless you tried to *modify* existing data, at which point it would keep dirty copies of the data that was changed. As long as the underlying ResultSet

Zero-copy persistence with Struts?

2002-10-22 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I'm banging my brain against the sides of my skull trying to think of a way to do zero-copy JDBC persistence with Struts. What I mean by zero-copy is, basically, pass as much raw data as possible between the Model layer and the View layer. In pragmatic terms, this probably means taking a JDBC

Re: [OT] RE: Persistence Framework Comparison?

2002-10-04 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:28, David Graham wrote: This is a layer above all persistence frameworks (JDBC, JDO, EJB, OJB, etc.) that your application programs to. If you decide to change persistence frameworks, most of your code remains unchanged because it doesn't know which one you're using.

content management ideas?

2002-09-12 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I was wondering how people handle frequent content updates with Struts/JSP? At my company, I'm building a site for which much of the static content (including things like the CSS stylesheet) will probably undergo frequent revision. I'd like to open it up for easier access, such as via FrontPage,

Struts -- JSF roadmap

2002-09-06 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I was wondering if there are others out there who have read the (preliminary) JSF (Java Server Faces) drafts, tutorials, etc., with opinions on how they relate to Struts? With Craig the spec lead on JSF, and Craig also being a primary mover (as well as original inventor) of Struts, I am hoping

Re: Struts -- JSF roadmap

2002-09-06 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
true (which is good news for Struts folks). Craig On 6 Sep 2002, Bryan Field-Elliot wrote: Date: 06 Sep 2002 12:33:37 -0600 From: Bryan Field-Elliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts-User [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Object Relational Bridge is great ? A Basic Problem

2002-07-06 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 15:50, Adolfo Miguelez wrote: The only way that I have seen to do something similar, is the mini-project SIMPER (Struts resources page), which is able to work out dynabeans (actually they are hashmaps in their guts), following a database schema, for it

Re: Soap and Struts

2002-04-02 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I have successfully deploy Apache Axis (the new beta version) in the same webapp as a Struts application. This takes a little cut-and-pasting from Axis's web.xml file into yours, but it works fine. Bryan On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 02:10, Struts Newsgroup wrote: Subject: Soap and Struts

RE: JavaServerFaces (JSF) replacement for Struts?

2002-04-02 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I imagine that it would be a relatively simple task, to write an adaptor of some sort to map the JSF event model onto Struts actions. Bryan On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:41, Robert wrote: I went to the JSF session at JavaOne and the most asked question for the JSR group was What about

RE: JavaServerFaces (JSF) replacement for Struts?

2002-04-02 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Field-Elliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I imagine that it would be a relatively simple task, to write an adaptor of some sort to map the JSF event model onto Struts actions. Bryan On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:41, Robert wrote: I went

Re: Perhaps TABOO Question, how to convert struts apps to non-struts

2002-03-13 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Your assumptions are most likely wrong. Whether or not your Servlet container supports hot-redeploy is a general question, and not at all specific to Struts. Therefore, the question of whether to strip out Struts from your application shouldn't even be on the table with repsect to your concerns.

Re: Perhaps TABOO Question, how to convert struts apps to non-struts

2002-03-13 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
. thanks, Theron Bryan Field-Elliot To: Struts

Re: Perhaps TABOO Question, how to convert struts apps to non-struts

2002-03-13 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 12:02, John M. Corro wrote: I've found that every service provider that I've worked w/ or seen that provides a shared JVM won't allow you to deploy classes. In those situations I've had to write everything in JSP - SUCKS! Of course that's silly, because JSP pages are

Server-side Charting libs?

2002-03-10 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I was wondering if anyone has any positive experience with open-source charting libraries, with Struts? I need to generate a chart on the server (from a Struts action) and send it back to the client as a Jpeg, PNG, etc. I have messed with (a tiny bit) JFreeChart and Chart2d. Both appear (at

RE: Server-side Charting libs?

2002-03-10 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
the instructions at http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/2D/forDevelopers/java2dfaq.html#xvfb with no luck and went back to Xvfb. Let me know if you get it working. Matt. -Original Message- From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 March 2002

Re: StackOveflowException - poolman

2002-03-08 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
You are running the 2.1-beta of Poolman. While I did not see the specific bug you refer to (StackOverflowException), I did see other bugs, including a random and occasional NullPointerException. Since 2.1-beta has been in beta since October, and since there have been no development since then,

Re: [Off Topic] Poolman Setup

2002-03-07 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I'm no expert (having just picked up poolman a week ago) but, it appears to me that you don't have poolman.xml in the right place. It needs to be in either of the following places: 1. In the WEB-INF/classes directory (this is what I do) 2. Jar'd up, and then put the Jar in the WEB-INF/lib

Re: Struts and encryption

2002-03-07 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Many database have their own extensions for encryption, or one-way hashing, used for things like password storage. That's probably the best choice you could make. Bryan On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 19:36, Andrew H. Peterson wrote: Is there a struts preferred method of handling

RE: simper-NeXt

2002-03-06 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Simper's representation of a database row is in the class SimperBean. SimperBean is a relatively shallow extension of the DynaBean (actually DynaBean is an interface -- BasicDynaBean is a concrete class which SimperBean extends) -- see the commons project BeanUtils for the source to DynaBean.

Re: simper and linking tables (many to many relationships)

2002-03-06 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
m-m is not yet supported in an elegent way by Simper. In the docs I mention 1-1 and 1-m but I don't mention m-m for this reason. As a tempoary workaround to get going, create another field in your portfolio_stock table, called id, and use it as a (pseudo) primary-key (assigning it unique values,

Poolman is gone, I hardly knew ya

2002-03-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
According to the website: http://wwwcodestudiocom/ Poolman is no more What a bummer for me as I just learned it and deployed it on a new project less than a week ago! Previously, I was using the pooling mechanism built into Struts, but due to many folks refering to it as not industrial

Re: Simper with MySQL

2002-03-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Yes, There are two functions with Simper where we do mapping of java.sql.Types to Java classes, and vice versa. The error you're getting is that the functions mentioned above don't yet understand java.sql.Type of -1. Do you know offhand what type that is? It can be added easily to Simper, I can

Re: simper - versionColumn?

2002-03-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
It's an unimplemented placeholder for a future version, in which I hope to implement a basic optimistic concurrency pattern. If your tables have an integer column dedicated to versioning, Simper will automatically increment it on every update, after first testing to be sure that the value hasn't

Re: Simper with MySQL

2002-03-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
which allows nulls, which is totally different). Bryan On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 20:47, Ted Husted wrote: It's probably null. I've noticed that different pools handle this differently. I believe Resin returns zero instead. Bryan Field-Elliot wrote: Yes

Re: Are there any patters for pager design with EntityBeansproviding access to the database?

2002-03-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
The best approach is to use a database-specific extension (since paging is not part of SQL standard syntax). I use PostgreSQL which has very nice and easy paging support (using LIMIT and OFFSET keywords). I've tried to do it once before using Oracle but had some trouble (as I recall the rownum

Re: validate() and session expiry

2002-03-04 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
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: Nesting Extension and persistance strategy

2002-03-04 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
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: Urgent help - Connection reset by peer error with Struts ..

2002-03-03 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
How would you compare Poolman to the various pooling systems within Jakarta (such as DBCP, or the one built into Tomcat 4 if I'm not mistaken?) I can't keep track of them all Thanks, Bryan On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 07:23, Ted Husted wrote: For a production application, use Poolman

[Announce] Simper 0.2

2002-03-01 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Simper is a simple JDBC persistence mechanism for Java web apps It features many of the interesting features of EJB, such as automatic transaction demarcation (by way of Servlet Filters), and automatic change detection of database rows (by way of DynaBeans) Lastly, the notation by which you

RE: changing from *.do to /do/* screws up everything?

2002-02-28 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
forward=/WEB-INF/docroot/signup.jsp / Jeff Krueger -Original Message- From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:54 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List; Ted Husted Subject: Re: changing from *.do to /do

Re: changing from *.do to /do/* screws up everything?

2002-02-27 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Put this inside the head block of all your JSP pages: html:base/ Here is a URL to the docs for this tag: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/doc-1.0.2/struts-html.html#base It solves exactly this problem. Bryan On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:39, Rob Breeds wrote: Hi I hope this is me being dumb

Re: changing from *.do to /do/* screws up everything?

2002-02-27 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
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Re: changing from *.do to /do/* screws up everything?

2002-02-27 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 11:56, Ted Husted wrote: It originally came up in response to inquiries about how to enforce MVC. If all the JSPs are under WEB-INF, then the only possible way to get to them is through an action. Users can't just bookmark a JSP and pop into the middle of something.

Re: best practices for logging in

2002-02-24 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
You want to set a session-level boolean value (actually Boolean, not boolean, since you can only store proper objects in the session scope), indicating whether the user has logged in. Here are three ways to build a framework with Struts to check for logged-inness. I've used all three in

Re: best practices for logging in

2002-02-24 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
. On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 14:07, Robert Claeson wrote: Bryan Field-Elliot wrote: 3. Don't use Struts at all for your login check. Instead, use Servlet Filters (requires a Servlet 2.3 container such as Tomcat 4.0). You could, of course, also use J2EE's declarative AI features

Re: Dynamic Properties and Database

2002-02-18 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Take a look at my Simper package, which does basically this: http://www.netmeme.org/simper Still rough around the edges, but within a week or so, I hope to make a polished project out of it (hosted at SourceForge). I've been saying within a week or so for about a month now :( but will really

Re: logic:iterate with Struts template

2002-01-28 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Consider double-checking that productArrayList is in fact a session-scope object (or request-scope), and not a page-scope object. If it's page-scope, then it won't be visible to included pages. On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 13:43, Brian M. Zhang wrote: Hi, I have a jsp page which

Re: Template mechanism tutorial anyone?

2002-01-15 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I love the simplicity of Templates as well. The bummer with them is, they aren't nestable, as far as I can tell (can anyone tell me differently?). On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 02:09, flare wrote: On 14 Jan 2002 at 23:12, Michael Mehrle wrote: Hi guys/gals: I'm new to the

Re: Programming Style, Custom Tags - Opinions?

2001-12-23 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Thanks for the long opinion Ted. I agree with most of what you discussed, which is that the Actions should be delegating to a real business layer of back-end classes and methods, which can be re-applied to a non-Struts front-end. It's your first paragraph which I'd like to continue to discuss

Re: Programming Style, Custom Tags - Opinions?

2001-12-23 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Thanks again Ted, I didn't mean to imply that my View developers were also developing their own Tags. They aren't. Instead, I develop the Model, which includes back-tier business logic to perform actions, and return a bean (or a collection of beans) as a result. High-level business method names

Programming Style, Custom Tags - Opinions?

2001-12-19 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Hi all, I wanted to collect a few opinions on programming style with respect to Struts and JSP. The following have been my guiding principles for the last several Struts projects I've done: 1. When a JSP page needs to ALTER the model (e.g. data will be written), a Struts Action should be used.

Re: 404 error when placing JSPs beneath WEB-INF

2001-12-18 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I've tried this with Struts but found it to be unwieldly in the struts-config.xml file. Do you make an action, and a forward, for every single real JSP page? Kind of a pain in the buttocks if you ask me, but I see where you're going with the idea of centralizing access control, exception

OT: Good secure-ID solution? (Key FOB)

2001-10-20 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Hi, I apologize for this being off topic, but while this has nothing to do with Struts, still I think this is a list where I might find knowledgable people with good info. I'm looking for a good, cheap secure ID card or ID KeyFob solution, which I can integrate with my Struts

Re: Performance, Reflection, and Object Creation vs. Cacheing

2001-08-28 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Thanks for the insights Ted, Please help me if I'm misinterpreting. But looking at your code, it seems like your populate still takes a plain Bean as it's destination, although it can use a property set (in this case, a ResultSet) as the source. This reduces the proliferation of Value (or

Performance, Reflection, and Object Creation vs. Cacheing (was: Barracuda talk)

2001-08-27 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Ted, I read your rebuttal tonight re: Barracuda, and I have questions about one of your points. Actually this has nothing to do with Barracuda: - Reflection Every recent report I've seen says reflection is no longer a point of concern. Ditto for object creation and garbage collection.

Thoughts on Workflow and multiple devices...

2001-07-26 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Some end-user thoughts on the design of the Workflow system -- For the foreseeable future, I'll be building sites which need to be accessed from multiple devices, with different presentation requirements. This includes the standard desktop browser, but also includes WAP, and likely also

Struts 1.0b1 exception during logic:redirect and HTTPS

2001-05-31 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
We've successfully deployed an application using Struts 1.0b1 and it's working fine. Yesterday however, we introduced an SSL certificate onto the web server, and now, when my application is accessed via HTTPS instead of HTTP, certain exceptions occur on a regular basis. One of them is in

Re: Potential Security Flaw in Struts MVC

2001-05-07 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
There is a security risk here as you describe, if (and only if) you are using a generic introspection-based function (like Struts' PropertyUtils.copyBean) to copy the values from the UserForm object to the User object. There are several ways to avoid this -- 1. Don't put an admin flag "setter"

Re: Potential Security Flaw in Struts MVC

2001-05-07 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Christian, You kick ass! Apologies to the sensitive but that was a great explanation of a very obscure but important problem. Bryan Christian Cryder wrote: I usually just lurk on this list, but I think I'll pipe in here.

Re: Potential Security Flaw in Struts MVC

2001-05-07 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
m: Bryan Field-Elliot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Potential Security Flaw inStruts MVC There is a security risk here as you describe, if (and only if)you are using a generic introspection-based function (lik

Re: Potential Security Flaw in Struts MVC

2001-05-07 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
a little more than what I have. - jeff - Original Message - From: Bryan Field-Elliot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 4:38 PM Subject: Re: Potential Security Flaw inStruts MVC Either you are misunderstanding Struts,

Re: (struts + EJB) example

2001-04-27 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
. array) 5. action (another one) copies EJB to list 6. jsp displays results using iterate tag for the list Thanks again, I appreciate! P.S. I'm very very new for such development environment (struts + EJB), please be patience 8) Chris -Original Message- From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto

Re: (struts + EJB) example

2001-04-26 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Chris, I don't have an example for you, but I have written a brief post-mortem analysis of a major project just finished which used EJB and Struts. It can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg06088.html It was posted to this group, but no one had

A quick Struts project post-mortem

2001-04-11 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I'm just wrapping up a fairly major project which was built on top of Struts (thereby giving me a chance to learn it). I'm a little mixed about the experience, not being entirely sure the value add was there. I definitely feel "helped" by Struts' form validation infrastructure, and I would

Re: Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a problem.

2001-04-06 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
ur aversion tostateless and why they won't work for you in this situation, so that I canlearn more.Thanks, your questions and contributions here are very useful to me.Bill HinesSun Certified Java ProgrammerHershey Foods Corp-Original Message-From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a problem.

2001-04-06 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Bill -- I think the important design point to make, is that you want your business logic (including rules of behavior, state machine, etc) to be encapsulated within the EJB tier. This makes for tidier code and a more elegant design, and also makes your code more client-neutral. One of the

Edit form -- comments

2001-04-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Hmm I didn't catch that nuance... thanks for pointing that out, it does indeed change the picture. In any case, I finally got my own application to work as intended -- using one JSP page, one ActionForm, and one Action -- 1. The JSP page's initial invocation notices that there is no

Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a problem.

2001-04-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I'm having a design problem with my system, which is not really Struts specific, but since there are a lot of EJB users here, I thought I'd throw it on this list for comments -- My business logic is all implemented in a Stateful EJB Session bean. All Struts users get one instance of the

Re: Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a problem.

2001-04-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
s are per-user, rather than global. Comments before I dive in the deep end? Thanks, Bryan Abraham Kang wrote: Hi Bryan, Can you put the stateful session bean within a JavaBean with synchronized methods so that all access to the stateful session bean is through the JavaBean? --Abr

Re: Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a problem.

2001-04-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Now that I think about it, perhaps a solution to this would be a great general-purpose configuration feature for Struts. On a per-web-application level (e.g. in struts-config.xml), there might be an option such as: syncronize_requests = x where x might be: none - the default -- the

Re: Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a probl em.

2001-04-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
er will catch if you change signatures in one place and not theother. And your Remote interface is empty, since it just "joins" theEJBObject and Ixxx interfaces.Food for thought, there are many other ways to do this.--jason-----Original Message-From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a problem.

2001-04-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Message-----From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:15 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a probl em.So in your scenario (as a proposed solution to my problem), I would add syncronizat

Re: Frames, concurrency, and EJB Stateful Session beans - a problem.

2001-04-05 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
And your Remote interface is empty, since it just "joins" theEJBObject and Ixxx interfaces.Food for thought, there are many other ways to do this.--jason-Original Message-From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:33 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTEC

Presenting an edit form - example is WAY way bad...

2001-04-04 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Good grief, I've spent half the evening trying to understand the "proper way" in Struts to present the user with a pre-populated editable form (using ActionForm, a JSP page, and an Action). And, I am not even certain I have it figured out quite yet. My first point, is that the struts-example

Re: Communicating with EJB's from Action

2001-04-02 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I am doing EJB development with Struts also. Good design dictates that basic validity checking should occur nearest the client; probably the ActionForm.validate() method is the best place. In a perfect world, you'd do this way way out on the client via Javascript, but that would open itself up to

ActionForm reset(), constructor, and default values

2001-03-17 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I've posted this general comment three times now, with no response -- I am wondering if anyone is receiving my postings? The issue is, in implementing an ActionForm bean, are we expected to supply default values whenever the constructor is called, or whenever the reset() method is called, or

How can a Struts Action developer best document the system for a JSP developer?

2001-03-17 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I am struggling right now with how to properly and efficently document my Struts application for my JSP developer (who is by no means a Java expert). Specifically, I want to document each Action as well as each ActionForm that I code, including things like: 1. the pages I expect the user to

Still wishing someone would comment on this design issue (ActionForm defaults)

2001-03-15 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Reposted from earlier as I think this is an important design issue and I never got any comments on it -- I am working wth ActionForms, one of which contains some list boxes and some checkboxes. In building my ActionForm class, I am noticing in the docs (under "Form Construction Tags") warnings

struts-config.xml suggestion

2001-03-14 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Using 1.0 beta -- I have many "global forwards" in my config. All of my "input forms" are represented as global forwards. e.g.: global-forwards forward name="logon" path="/jsp/logon.jsp"/ /global-forwards In my action mappings, those which require ActionForms have an "input" tag: action

PropertyUtils.copyProperties and EJB beans

2001-03-12 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I am trying to use copyProperties() to copy everything FROM a standard bean, TO an enterprise javabean (entity bean). When I do so, I get the following exception: Name: java.lang.IllegalArgumentExceptionMessage: object is not an instance of declaring class Stack:

More on my copyProperties/EJB woes

2001-03-12 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I've been tearing apart my problems using copyProperties in an EJB environment; The scenario is that I am using PropertyUtils.copyProperties to copy everything FROM a simple bean, TO an EJB entity bean. Earlier tonight I thought that the hangup was over the destination bean, perhaps because it

Observations on ActionForms, reset(), html tags

2001-03-11 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
(I am reposting this message from a few days ago, because I realized that my original post was a reply to another message, and that even though I had changed the subject line, perhaps tree-viewing mail clients would show it is part of another conversation, which I didn't really intend. I just

ActionForm question (repost)

2001-03-08 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Question reposted (never got any responses) -- please respond, someone :) Question about creating ActionForm beans -- What kinds of data types are supported? I could not find a reference to this in the docs. For example, I want to have an input box on my forms, where the user can enter a

Question about PropUtils.copyProperties()

2001-03-08 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Question -- in evaluating names of properties (get/setter methods), does it do a case-INsensitive match, or case-sensitive? Due to the tool I'm using, some classes have method names like: getcc_number() putcc_number() while others will have it as: getCc_number() putCc_number() Will these be

ActionForm questions

2001-03-02 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
New to Struts here -- Question about creating ActionForm beans -- What kinds of data types are supported? I could not find a reference to this in the docs. For example, I want to have an input box on my forms, where the user can enter a number. Or, they can leave it blank. I want "blank" to

Modeling Struts apps with TogetherJ?

2001-02-27 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
I'm exercising my new copy of TogetherJ, and at the same time learning Struts for the first time. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience trying to model a Struts application using Together? (e.g. which diagram types did you use, etc.)? Regards, Bryan