Telling Users to Wait

2003-08-21 Thread Mark Silva
Hello Struts Gurus, I am facing an issue in my application where I need to run a database creation script, and a database import script through the web (running bat files on the server). I can run these files fine, but they take a few minutes to run... How can I tell the user when they have

Upgrading to Struts 1.1

2003-03-28 Thread Mark Silva
hello all, i am currently trying to move my Struts 1.0 application to Struts 1.1. What is the easiest path along that migration? Is there a utility to convert the 1.0 struts-config.xml to 1.1 syntax? any other issues i need to be concerned with, other than copying the appopriate jar and tld

RE: [REQUEST] Corrections for Struts Kick Start

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Silva
hmmm... should i wait a month or two for this 2nd printing? will there be anything worth waiting for (other than typos, etc...) when do you think it will be released approx. i was just about to order kickstart from amazon when i saw this message! thanks, mark -Original Message-

[OT] Run Java App as a Web Service

2002-11-01 Thread Mark Silva
ok, i have this new requirement that has just come down today for a release next week. these things arren't supposed to happen but they do! the java app i am providing needs to run as a WIN2000 Service. has anybody done thid before? can you point me in the right direfction? thanks, mark

RE: [OT] Run Java App as a Win Service

2002-11-01 Thread Mark Silva
has nothing to do with running a Windows application as a service. Assuming you really meant the latter, I suggest you read the documentation for your application server to determine how to run it as a Windows service. -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:msilva;authenex.com

RE: [JAVASCRIPT] parent reloader

2002-10-30 Thread Mark Silva
To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [JAVASCRIPT] parent reloader I use window.opener.document.location.href = yourParentWindow.do -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:msilva;authenex.com] Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 9:46 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject

RE: error checking in Action

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Silva
yes i agree. my error checking is going into a buisness level helper class (instead of the form) because it is so complex. it onvolves going into the database, and making sure there are a minimum number of an item left, before a user can make changes to it. it also needs to check various

error checking in Action

2002-10-28 Thread Mark Silva
I need to do some extensive error checking, and need to move this into an action class. my question is when i identify an action, how i forward back to the previous page (the same way a form class would). is there a method to take care of this? or do i need to setup all the passed values in

RE: [OT] Tomcat not extracting war

2002-10-23 Thread Mark Silva
://www.open-tools.org Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:msilva;authenex.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:09 PM To: Struts Users Mailing

[OT] Tomcat not extracting war

2002-10-22 Thread Mark Silva
took me a while to get back to testing this out The permissions look fine (running under WIN 2000) i just found this extract from my log files. i am not sure i understand it. the war file is called aguard.war, which should extract to /webapps/aguard. it says the dir does not exisit.

RE: [OT] Tomcat not extracting war

2002-10-22 Thread Mark Silva
took me a while to get back to testing this out The permissions look fine (running under WIN 2000) i just found this extract from my log files. i am not sure i understand it. the war file is called aguard.war, which should extract to /webapps/aguard. it says the dir does not exisit.

OT: Tomcat not extracting war

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Silva
hello all, i thought somebody here would have a quick answer for this one. i am deploying my struts application to a new machine. i am placing the war file underneath the webapps directory, and starting the server up, but the war file is not being extracted! any ideas? it works on another

RE: Tomcat not extracting war

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Silva
Rootlevel, Inc. Sr. Software Engineer 1001 Woodward, Suite 1500 313 961 4407 x357 Detroit, Michigan 48226 www.rootlevel.com -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:msilva;authenex.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:34 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List

RE: [OT] Tomcat not extracting war

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Silva
-Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:msilva;authenex.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:34 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: OT: Tomcat not extracting war hello all, i thought somebody here would have a quick answer for this one. i am deploying my struts

RE: [OT] Tomcat not extracting war

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Silva
a very similar problem at my office. Turns out that Tomcat _really_ does not like WAR files that are missing their manifests. You might take a look at that. . . --Kevin -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:msilva;authenex.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:34 PM To: Struts

RE: [OT] Tomcat not extracting war

2002-10-18 Thread Mark Silva
Software Engineer/Struts Evangelist http://www.open-tools.org -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:msilva;authenex.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:54 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Tomcat not extracting war that parameter was not set at all. i have

RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Silva
- From: Galbreath, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 4:29 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update a. upgrade to 1.1b2 b. don't bypass the ActionForm -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Silva
: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:52 PM How will upgrading to 1.1b2 help me here? does it provide some feature that does what i need? i cannot seem to find it. i understand i shouldn't bypass the form, but HOW can i avoid it since these are all dynamically

RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Silva
]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:27 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update Oh...have you looked into DynaActionForm? -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:22 PM To: Struts Users

RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Silva
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:29 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Mark Silva wrote: In this particular form, I have a list of objects, with multiple attributes. Each attribute name is preceded

RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Silva
PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:57 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Design Problem: Multiple Object Update On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Mark Silva wrote: so if you had a bunch of parameters like so category=XYZkey=123category=ABCkey=256category=AAA how does struts correspond

Design Problem: Multiple Object Update

2002-10-03 Thread Mark Silva
the user to be able to make edits on the whole screen, and then submit it. What is the best way to keep the data together in terms of naming of the fields. currently I precede each value with the userId and an underscore. User = Mark Silva userId = 101 name field -- 101_name isActiveField

message code not working

2002-10-02 Thread Mark Silva
can anyone tell me what is wrong with this code in my jsp? other than the fact that i am not using a tag ;-) userInfo = ((MessageResources)request.getAttribute(org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE)).getMessage(user.info.message); my jsp is not loading properly. the text gets cut off some

RE: message code not working

2002-10-02 Thread Mark Silva
of encapsulation and compile-time checking of your attribute name or userInfo = getResources(request).getMessage(user.info.message); if you happen to be within an Action class already? -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:28 AM

ActionErrors for General Messages

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Silva
I am thinking of using ActionErrors for general messaging on my pages. Since I have the hrml:errors tag, placed well for messages to the user, I would like to pass messages such as Operation Successful, or Item Added Is it ok to use the ActionErrors this way? Any reason to call it bad

RE: ActionErrors for General Messages

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Silva
: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ActionErrors for General Messages I think this is why struts added the ActionMessages class to 1.1. You might look into this and how it works with the tags. Dave From: Mark Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users

Struts Authentication Filter

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Silva
hello all, I am attempting to write an Authentication Filter (Servlet Filter) for my Stuts App. It is pretty simple so far. it just checks to see if a User has Authenticated yet (from the session), and if not calls sendRedirect on the response. code and xml below

RE: dynamic use of ApplicationResources.properties

2002-09-24 Thread Mark Silva
for bean:message key=/ are you? Sounds like it, but I could be *way* off ... Mark Silva wrote: hello again, is there any way to dyanmically use ApplicationResources.properties in an Action class? what i mean is that i want to Select a message from the Action class, and pass that message to the jsp

logging in struts

2002-09-23 Thread Mark Silva
hey there, i was wondering what people ar eusing for logging in struts. it seems that with jdk1.4, and the included logging, that would be the right framework. has anybody had readon to use something else, like the jakarta package, or log4j? also i had a question about the configuration

RE: logging in struts

2002-09-23 Thread Mark Silva
PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:05 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: logging in struts -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:08 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: logging in struts hey

dynamic use of ApplicationResources.properties

2002-09-23 Thread Mark Silva
hello again, is there any way to dyanmically use ApplicationResources.properties in an Action class? what i mean is that i want to Select a message from the Action class, and pass that message to the jsp. this will allow me to have a much more generic page... i wont be ties to putting the

RE: message checking

2002-09-20 Thread Mark Silva
List' Subject: RE: message checking Yes, but first, what is an auomatic avocado peeler? Sounds like some kind of Lisp debugger. Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:53 PM is is possible to check for the existence

RE: message checking

2002-09-20 Thread Mark Silva
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: message checking Instead of using bean:message use a scriptlet: logic:equal parameter=%= session.getAtribute(key) % value=true You guessed right! You win an auomatic avocado peeler! /logic:equal Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Silva

file upload problem

2002-09-20 Thread Mark Silva
hello again, so i am trying to implement a file upload feature in my application, and i think i have everything setup correctly, but i am getting this error on submission. javax.servlet.ServletException: BeanUtils.populate java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch i feel that

RE: file upload problem

2002-09-20 Thread Mark Silva
at the sources for the struts-upload sample application that comes with Struts. That will give you a working example to refer to. -- Martin Cooper -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:41 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List

message checking

2002-09-19 Thread Mark Silva
hello all, is is possible to check for the existence of a message in my page, and then output some html if it is there? or if it is equal to something. i am looking to do something like this, (although this code doesn't seem to work) logic:equal parameter=bean:message

RE: presence of a message

2002-09-11 Thread Mark Silva
how, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 7:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: presence of a message hello all, i want to test for the presence of a message in the message bean, so i don't get

deploying a struts application

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Silva
i have a question on deployment. i am thinking of packaging my application as a war file, and letting the users place this in the right location in their container. the only problem is that there is a config file that needs to be edited prior to the application working. the config file

RE: deploying a struts application

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Silva
application Remove the config file from the war file, and ask the user to place that properties file in the classpath. -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 10, 2002 12:20 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: deploying a struts application i

RE: Executing code before each action

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Silva
you could sublass the Action Object (BaseAction), and provide this functionality. your Action classes will then subclass this object. you may need to rename your perform method and call that my you BaseAction class' perform method. -mark -Original Message- From: Brett [mailto:[EMAIL

presence of a message

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Silva
hello all, i want to test for the presence of a message in the message bean, so i don't get an error if its not there. is there a special way to do this? thanks, mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Simple Question

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Silva
This is probably a simple question, but i cannot find the answer in any straighforward place. how do i get a property from my ApplicationResources.properties file within some java code. i know how to do this using a bean tag, but not otherwise. is there a helper class to do this? i am

RE: Simple Question

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Silva
an Action? James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atlanta, the Open Minded Developer Network http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta -Original Message- From: Mark Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:07 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List

logging frameworks/config file

2002-09-06 Thread Mark Silva
i am currently trying to decide what logging framework to use with my tomcat/struts application. a couple questions. 1) what logging framework is preferred. 2) of those that are configured with a properties file, where does this file go in the tomcat dir structure? 3) how do these fit it

logging frameworks/config files

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Silva
i am currently trying to decide what logging framework to use with my tomcat/struts application. a couple questions. 1) what logging framework is preferred. 2) of those that are configured with a properties file, where does this file go in the tomcat dir structure? 3) how do these fit it

text input and style sheets

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Silva
the form field if there is an error. is the only way to do this, to make it an initial value in the form object? thanks, mark silva -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

logic:iterate question (index available?)

2002-08-29 Thread Mark Silva
hello all, is there any way to get the current loop number (or index) of a an iterate tag? i have the following code: logic:iterate id=fields name=report property=fields a href=sort.do?sortIndex=I.Want.The.Current.Index.Of.Iteration.Herebean:write name=fields//a /logic:iterate do i need to

Dynamic Messages possible with bean:message tag?

2002-08-28 Thread Mark Silva
Hello, I am trying to use the ApplicationResources file to display titles, messages, etc. I would like to create these messages dynamically based on a request parameter. For example bean:message key=AuthenticationReport.title/ I would lie to dynamically change the AuthenticationReport based