Struts tag problem (bean:message and bean:write)

2004-03-25 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone of you have a solution For this dilemma. I have a collectin of product DTOs to show on my jsp. One of DTO's property is, let's say, the type, which is listed in number. (let's say, 10 or 20). ON the DTO I will have the value 10,20 ecc but on the jsp I

Basic question about ActionForms

2004-03-24 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, In my app I am using a DynaActionForm with scope = session. When I am calling the action for the first time, obviously the Form is 'emtpy', so I populate it with all the values.. When I am redirected to the action class again, the actionform Should be in the session (in theory).

RE: [OT] Design Question

2004-03-23 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, In my previous company I had exactly what you are talking about, Access and fields are restricted by country (and we had also different Names for fields depending on the country - not internationalization, just Different name). Solution adopted was to have only ONE database in which

RE: *****SPAM***** How to configure in tomcat5.0

2004-03-18 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, I got same frustration that you had I got solved By trying to reuse the webapp examples.. Steps: - define a Datasource in server.xml (following instructions given in tomcat), within the context jsp-examples (one of the webapp that comes along with tomcat - inside

RE: Reporting + Struts

2004-03-11 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I have the same problem... I was going to use jasper (I posted a similar message in jasper mailing list) but I am stucked at the point Of how do I render the report generated by jasper If I want to show it to the user, ideally I have to get the report in XML Format and then

RE: Reporting + Struts

2004-03-11 Thread Marco Mistroni
or something else which is set up to render webapps in html? Niall - Original Message - From: Marco Mistroni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:00 PM Subject: RE: Reporting + Struts Hi all, I have the same problem... I

RE: How to configure JNDI in tomcat5

2004-03-09 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, I m assuming u have been thru the steps of configuring Jndi in tomcat (update of server.xml and common\lib) Assuming you have called, in ur server.xml, your datasource test/myDb, You would have entered a resource-ref in your web.xml, that refers to Test/myDb Now when you look it up

calculating sum inside logic:iterate

2004-03-02 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I have a colletion of items that have a method called price. I was wandering if I could calculate the total of all prices via struts Tags rather than using java code... Anyone has any ideas? Thanx in advance and regards marco

RE: Avoiding app server restarts while doing struts development

2004-03-01 Thread Marco Mistroni
HI, I guess those changes,which have 'context scope', need Always a redeploy Only changes that don't need a redeploy can be jsp changes (provided that You deploy your application as a 'directory' rather than war file) Regards marco -Original Message- From: Abhishek

validation error in FormBean, where to redirect next?

2004-02-25 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, Assume that I have following struts-config.xml action path=/receiveLine type= ReceiveLineAction input=/receiveLine.jsp name=receiveLineForm scope=request forward name=failure path=/receiveLine.jsp

RE: Common Services across Different Actions.

2004-02-25 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, My 2 cents... I had to implement similar functionalities And I used a plugIn... I would go for writing a common GenericService interface, and And a GenericServiceFactory implemented as plugin (so that you Get your specific service from the factory). How do you create specific

RE: urgent please -- XML document reading/parsing through SAX for the given snippet.

2004-02-23 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, Check on the net for SAX handlers examples...you have To maintain the state yourself after each sax event. Example quick? Create a global case object in your handler, and At each start element check if it is a case or an assigned or something else.. If it is a case, instantiate a new

RE: Problem Dynamically creating form properties

2004-02-18 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, In my case I still declare properties in Struts-config, so the validator still validates (as I have seen From the errors received :-) I was curious 'bout Guillermo approach coz I was trying To explore ways so that a change in parameters from Backend layers will lead to as small

RE: Problem Dynamically creating form properties

2004-02-18 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi Hubert, I would be very interested in it...or at least If u can describe me how the whole process works.. By plugin you mean struts-plugin? Regards marco -Original Message- From: Hubert Rabago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2004 19:24 To: Struts

RE: Problem Dynamically creating form properties

2004-02-17 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi Guillermo, I have one question: will 'your trick' work also if I have properties of type, for example, Short, or Integer, or java.sql.Date? Thanx and regards marco -Original Message- From: Guillermo Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2004 12:43 To:

RE: Problem Dynamically creating form properties

2004-02-17 Thread Marco Mistroni
, Marco Mistroni wrote: Hi Guillermo, I have one question: will 'your trick' work also if I have properties of type, for example, Short, or Integer, or java.sql.Date? Thanx and regards marco -Original Message- From: Guillermo Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17

Reset button not working properly when page contains error

2004-02-16 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I have a form which contains a reset button (html:reset) and whenever I submit the form and got errors from Action class, it seems that the reset button does not work properly, since when I click on it it does not reset anything.. no matter if I specify my own custom javascript

problem with DynaActionForms in conversion of values

2004-02-11 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, In my app I am using a DynaActionForm to retrieve Input values. I have one problem: one field of the bean is of type BigDecimal.. in the Jsp I am setting the default initial value of zero, but this does not prevent the silly user from deleting the zero and leave the field blank. At

RE: Validation.xml

2004-02-11 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, Easiest thing is to handle this in the validate method of your action form, provided that You have a parameter in your Action form that can tells you if you are adding modifying or viewing.. Regards marco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: repost: validator retrieving data

2004-02-05 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, I haven't understood properly ur workflow, but I'll add my 2 cents since I have encountered similar problems... Is this scenario feasible? 1 - b4 going to screen, u call the setup action which loads the data 2 - setup will redirect to the input page that will submit the form to

accessing application.properties from JSP

2004-02-03 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, Does anyone know how to access application.resources from a JSP? With best regards Marco - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: accessing application.properties from JSP

2004-02-03 Thread Marco Mistroni
it is done in the struts-example. -- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Struts Evangelist http://www.struts-atlanta.org 678.910.8017 (cell) AIM: jmitchtx MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Marco Mistroni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

PlugIn problems in looking up initial context

2004-01-29 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I have written a plugIn in which I have to lookup something in the JNDI tree.. However,whenever I try to lookup something (In the plugIn), I got the exception. My servlet is loaded at startup...so my guess is that when the plugIn is initialized the context is not yet there Is

RE: Best Practice for long running tasks with status check

2004-01-29 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, My 2 cents.. For the first half of your query, you can use JMX timer. Best way to do that Is to write an MBean that register itself with the timer and eventually receive notifications. You can make so that the 'object htat needs to be updated all the time' is A listener to

question about tiles

2004-01-28 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I was wondering one thing.. Suppose that in page1 I define a tiles:setAttribute name=foo Is It possible to get it out from page2 WITHIN a custom JSP tag? Thanx in advance and regards marco - To

Logic:iterate and logic:equalquestion

2004-01-26 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I need to use the logic:equal inside a logic iterate..and I am Having problems.. My case is that I hae in an ActionForm an HashMap property which contains Pairs of String, MyObject. My object has a Boolean property called status What I want to do is to loop thru all the objects

problem with nested tags

2004-01-26 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I have problem in invoking a javascript for following code... nested:iterate id=element name=batchTaskForm property=tasks tr class=workscreen td align=right class=workscreen bean:write name=element property=value.type/

Dealing wiht exception in DispatchAction

2004-01-26 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I am using a DispatchAction in my application. I have declared the Type of the exception that will be raised in case one method raises an exception.. But I am stuck with the fact that i have, in 4 methods, the same type of Exception but with different message. When I declare the

RE: XML and JSP

2004-01-20 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, My 2 cents.. For doing something like this, looks like what u need would be An XML string on the web while having a Java objet in the backend.. Look at Castor (http://castor.exolab.org), it may suits your needs... Regards marco -Original Message- From: Navjot Singh

Struts plugin question

2004-01-16 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, In my application I have to connect to MBean server and registers some MBeans, that will be then available (thru an interface) to my application. For doing that, I was thinking of writing a plugin that contains my JMXAgent (plugin1) to abstract the connection to MBean server

RE: BeanUtils use in struts

2004-01-08 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi Craig, Thanx for your comments. It uses reflection on POJOs (plain old Java objects) but not on DynaBeans -- the implementation inside DynaActionForm is a HashMap with typesafe getters and setters. In my case I have a Custom DTO with setter/getters and a Form bean that extends

BeanUtils use in struts

2004-01-07 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I have a question about using BeanUtils in Struts. For saving me from writing lot of code, I am using DynaActionForms in my pages. In the backend, I have some DTOs, so I decided in order to make My app more 'extensible' without rewriting too much code, to use BeanUtils to populate

Error in JSP when using DynaActionForm

2003-12-23 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I am trying to get things working with DynaActionform. I have defined my dynaAction form in my struts-config file as follows.. form-bean name=productAliasForm type=org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm form-property name=aliasRef type=java.lang.String/

RE: Error in JSP when using DynaActionForm

2003-12-23 Thread Marco Mistroni
-- productMaintenance.jsp If its not this, then I think the list might need a fragment of your jsp code as well -Original Message- From: Marco Mistroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 December 2003 11:26 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: Error in JSP when using DynaActionForm Hi all

RE: Error in JSP when using DynaActionForm

2003-12-23 Thread Marco Mistroni
AliasMaintenance.jsp as the error message says or is it a typo? As coded the action you've described should forward to another jsp -- productMaintenance.jsp If its not this, then I think the list might need a fragment of your jsp code as well -Original Message- From: Marco Mistroni [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Error in JSP when using DynaActionForm / apologies, problem solved

2003-12-23 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, Sorry that I bothered the list with my spam. I found the problem..in the struts config I was still associating The old MyForm bean to the new action created 'AliasMaintenanceAction' So whenever, in my aliasMaintenance.jsp, I was using the tag html:form

RE: How find DataSource?

2003-12-22 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi, How about a plugIn? Regards marco -Original Message- From: e-denton Java Programmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 December 2003 14:11 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: How find DataSource? Merry Christmas, Wow, I finally connected to my data source!

Initializing DynaActionForm

2003-12-22 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, Can you tell me how can I initialize dynamic form in struts config? Do I have to do something like this form-property name=name type=java.lang.String value=init/ ?? how about when I have to initialize a java.sql.Timestamp? I was used to initialize it like this new

RE: validation and DynaActionForm / concrete question

2003-12-18 Thread Marco Mistroni
and declare it in the validator-rules.xml. That way you can control how it will behave and validate the parameters... -Yves a.k.a. the witness to your long debates with Chad regarding morality and politcs :o) -Original Message- From: Marco Mistroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

validation and DynaActionForm

2003-12-17 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I am experiencing problems with DynaActionForm.. I have a DynaActionForm that contains 13 properties and A DispatchAction used calling different methods depending On the value of one parameter (named methodToCall). Now, when I enter the page for the first time the only request

RE: validation and DynaActionForm

2003-12-17 Thread Marco Mistroni
Dec 2003, at 16:10, Marco Mistroni wrote: Hi all, I am experiencing problems with DynaActionForm.. I have a DynaActionForm that contains 13 properties and A DispatchAction used calling different methods depending On the value of one parameter (named methodToCall). Now, when I enter

RE: validation and DynaActionForm / concrete question

2003-12-17 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, After struggling with my application, I have One question to ask. I have a DispatchAction class that handles my logic, and A DynaActionForm associated with it. The problem is that the jsp from which the request comes can Contain either 1, 2 parameters (out of 13 of DynaActionForm)

RE: validation and DynaActionForm / concrete question

2003-12-17 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi Wendy, Only a little problem.. I haven't written any class for my DynaActionForm. Instead, I declare all the properties in the struts-config.xml Struts does all the rest But, anyway, can u give more details on ur solution to my problem? Regards marco -Original

html:select tag or logic:iterate

2003-12-15 Thread Marco Mistroni
Hi all, I am quite new to struts tag library and I need an advice. In the HttpSession I have an object of type Collection, which stores a list of MyObject. MyOBject has two properties, description and id. Out of this Collection of MyObject I must generate a selectable list Which displays