struts - servlet/xml

2001-02-27 Thread Sebastian . Guzy
hi there, I've got working software on the server side and I would like (I have) to create servlet-XML interface for it. The questions are: How 'struts' is able to help me to do it faster ? Is it able to support me at all ? Will I have something more from it ? Thanks in advance Sebastian

AW: Template tags?

2001-02-27 Thread D. Veniseleas
-Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von:John Nikolai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am:Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2001 01:31 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff:Template tags? Hi all! I'm defiantly new to the struts and taglibs so please bear with my questions: We are

Re: Stupd question about Struts and EJB.

2001-02-27 Thread Jim Richards
EJBs come in two flavours (as opposed to flavors), session beans and entity beans. Session beans represent business logic and rules, entity beans represent a row in the database. The model that you'd use is to have Actions do the basic processing of form elements into data beans (just regular

Re: Stupd question about Struts and EJB.

2001-02-27 Thread Robert Leland
As far as struts 1.0, the Form bean is used only to redisplay information to the jsp page. Typically the EJB might be loaded/unloaded in the action class. If you search www.mail-archives.co,m Craig talked more about this in detail. In future version of struts this may be enhanced. -Rob

Re: faq

2001-02-27 Thread Ted Husted
Unfortunately, there's not an official FAQ for Struts right now. (Jakarta's Jyve installation seems to be hopelessly broken.) I've started a draft of a "kickstart" FAQ at http://husted.com/about/struts/kickstart.html in case that helps. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. --

Re: AW: Template tags?

2001-02-27 Thread Robert Leland
"D. Veniseleas" wrote: these taglibs. The template taglibs are in CVS and easily accessed but I'm wondering if these are going to be distributed in the next release of struts. To quote David Geary, 'templates are here to stay'. All functionality that is in the Beta or nightly builds will

Re: hide a link or JSP's URL

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Thank you both, Craig M. and Craig T. very much! Maya "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: Maya Muchnik wrote: Hi, How make a link or JSP URL "invisible" to a browser? I have read some chapter in a book, I know that this is possible. Is it possible with Struts? Is it some property

Re: What a jar file is needed?

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Wayne, Thank you for your suggestion. I put copies of jaxp.jar and parser.jar from jaxp1.0.1 package (Sun Microsystems) to /usr/java/jre/lib/ext and the file was compiled. Does anyone know why and what case we need to have crimson.jar, xlan.jar? The second Q. (maybe it was corrected for the

stupid Q: setters are not called if properties are empty

2001-02-27 Thread Kan Leung, MK
Sorry if you find if this is a bit off topic. ;) Hi all, Hope this is not a FAQ. (I spent 2 hours to do net search but didn't get a good answer) 8 jsp:useBean name="abc" scope="session" / jsp:setProperty name="abc" property="*"/ 8 Introspection magic makes the property setters called if

Problems trying to deploy the struts example (1.0b) on solaris

2001-02-27 Thread Pablo Estades Fernández
Hi all, The struts example works fine on my W2K but when I try to deploy it on solaris fails. This is my setup: Solaris 2.6 Sun JDK1.2 If it helps you, you can take a look on the weblogic.properties, the start script (startEx.sh) and the log (weblogic_pgn.log) If you need something more,

Re: Base tag question

2001-02-27 Thread James Howe
At 05:35 PM 2/26/2001 -0800, you wrote: James Howe wrote: Is there some reason why the base tag defined in the HTML tag library doesn't let you specify the optional target attribute? I'm working with a frames based web application and I need to use both the href and target attributes.

Building a Form dynamically

2001-02-27 Thread Dorai, Harish (c)
Hello all, I am developing an application, where I need to have a form which is a simple table. This table is built dynamically based on a database query. When I click on each row, I should navigate to a page corresponding to that row, and use the values in that row to display the page. How can

Re: Problems trying to deploy the struts example (1.0b) on solaris

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
I think it is WebLogic related, because I do not have a problem to run struts-example on Sun 2.7 with Sun JDK 1.3. Pablo Estades Fernndez wrote: Hi all, The struts example works fine on my W2K but when I try to deploy it on solaris fails. This is my setup: Solaris 2.6 Sun JDK1.2 If it

Sample Servlet Controller

2001-02-27 Thread Nageshwar Charka
Hi there, Can somebody help me in getting some sample code snippet for Struts Servlet Controller(Struts Application startup Servlet). Currently I am using SaServletEngine.class as the controller from Bluestone Software(HP). It just works fine, but I want to make a vender neutral app. Thanks in

in struts frame: onclick does not work

2001-02-27 Thread Nageshwar Charka
Hi folks, My onclick (for a button ) does not work with javascript validation. If I call the same javascipt function with onsubmit event in a form it works fine. I tried both Netscape4.7 and IE5.0. Since there are no javascipt errors in both the cases I am not able to debug. I guess event is

RE: Sample Servlet Controller

2001-02-27 Thread Torben Norling
Hi! Check the example application that is included with the distribution. Another nice intro to struts can be found on: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-struts/index.html?openl=jls t004,t=gr,p=Struts // Torben -Original Message- From: Nageshwar Charka [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Problems trying to deploy the struts example (1.0b) on solaris

2001-02-27 Thread Pablo Estades Fernández
More information; Here is my problematic index.jsp. Do you think the error can be related to NOT to use JDK1.3? %@ 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"

Re: Problems trying to deploy the struts example (1.0b) on solaris

2001-02-27 Thread Pablo Estades Fernández
Yes Maya, it seems to be WebLogic. Are you using Tomcat under solaris or another server? --- Maya Muchnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi: I think it is WebLogic related, because I do not have a problem to run struts-example on Sun 2.7 with Sun JDK 1.3. Pablo Estades Fernndez wrote: Hi all,

Re: Problems trying to deploy the struts example (1.0b) on solaris

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Is this the same index.jsp from struts-example? If so, I do not have a problem to run example on Sun 2.7 and JDK 1.3. Maya Pablo Estades Fernndez wrote: More information; Here is my problematic index.jsp. Do you think the error can be related to NOT to use JDK1.3? %@ page

RE: Sample Servlet Controller

2001-02-27 Thread McCay, Larry
nagesh, I am not sure what you are asking for. You are able to write a vendor neutral app using the bluestone servlet engine. If you elaborate a bit I can offer some advice. You can get to a Trail Map on the gallery website for further information

struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Hi, Do you have any ideas how registration.jsp file (struts-example) can be changed to handle a situation when a user call it directly. I do not "like" a SevletException to be displayed: Error: 500 Location: /struts-example/registration.jsp Internal Servlet Error:

Re: struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Jean-Noël Ribette
- Original Message - From: Maya Muchnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:07 PM Subject: struts-example - handle of ServletException Hi, Do you have any ideas how registration.jsp file (struts-example) can be changed to handle a situation

Re: Base tag question

2001-02-27 Thread Incze Lajos
I thought target was part of the spec. In looking at the spec on www.w3c.org, the following page specifically mentions the target attribute: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-BASE However, the DTD does not mention the target attribute so I'm a bit confused. I have my

Re: struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Thank you. I thought, that some struts "magic" I can use. If I will use a standard "errorPage" as you suggest, I will lose all pluses of the good struts interface. Maya Jean-Nol Ribette wrote: - Original Message - From: Maya Muchnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

form initialization using session

2001-02-27 Thread Simon Sadedin
Hi all, I am working on an application where form fields need to default to values that depend on the user's profile, which is stored in the session. Unfortunately, it seems like struts forms are created automatically without any hooks that allow access to the session to initialize these

Where are form tags?

2001-02-27 Thread Sundar @eSaravana
Hello, In the beta release, which I downloaded and built, struts.jar did not have html tags. So, I just downloaded yesterday's binary and it does not have form tags. Am I missing something here? Any information is appreciated. Sundar

Re: struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Peter Alfors
We wrap errors in our own exception class, and store them in our request/session. Then redirect the user to a standard error page that knows how to retrieve the error from the request/session, and display it in a 'friendly' way to the user. Our exception class contains a user message, as well as

Re: struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Thank you, David. David Winterfeldt wrote: You can always add some logic tags at the top of the registration.jsp to check if he is logged in, certain objects are in scope that the form needs, etc. If the criteria aren't met, forward him to any page you want and display a message. You

Re: struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Thank you, Peter. So many good implementations around! Peter Alfors wrote: We wrap errors in our own exception class, and store them in our request/session. Then redirect the user to a standard error page that knows how to retrieve the error from the request/session, and display it in a

Question about iterate tag

2001-02-27 Thread Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004
Hi, Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong below: user is a bean in session scope in my JSP and its getSuppliers() method returns a hashtable where keys are Suppliers Ids and elements are Supplier beans. logic:iterate collection="%= user.getSuppliers() %" id="supplier"

Re: form initialization using session

2001-02-27 Thread Michael McCallister
The way this is typically handled is to use an Action to populate the bean. So instead of linking your user directly to the JSP page, you link them to an Action. This Action typically loads the bean and then returns the success mapping, which, in struts-config.xml, you've mapped to the JSP

Re: Has any one used struts and log4j successfully?

2001-02-27 Thread Mark Balster
I currently use Log4j with NDC enabled combined with struts. Here is how I use it: - Run PropertyConfigurator from a startup servlet - import org.apache.log4j.Category in your code - set reference to log4j in your code public class loginAction extends Action { static Category cat =

Re: struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Incze Lajos
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:07:15PM -0500, Maya Muchnik wrote: Hi, Do you have any ideas how registration.jsp file (struts-example) can be changed to handle a situation when a user call it directly. I do not "like" a SevletException to be displayed: Error: 500 Location:

Re: struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Thank you Incze. This is the 3rd or 4th good suggestions!!! We have so many gurus. The Life is good. Maya Incze Lajos wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:07:15PM -0500, Maya Muchnik wrote: Hi, Do you have any ideas how registration.jsp file (struts-example) can be changed to handle a

RE: struts-example - handle of ServletException

2001-02-27 Thread Deadman, Hal
This is the 3rd or 4th thank you email!!! We have so many emails. The Life is bad. But seriously, I think everyone is thankful for responses they get to their submissions. If everyone thanked people for every response the list would be too cluttered. Why not say thanks in advance? Hal

How do I iterate thru a hashtable using iterate tag?

2001-02-27 Thread Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004
Hi, Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong below: user is a bean in session scope in my JSP and its getSuppliers() method returns a hashtable where keys are Suppliers Ids and elements are Supplier beans. logic:iterate collection="%= user.getSuppliers() %" id="supplier"

Re: Has any one used struts and log4j successfully?

2001-02-27 Thread Puneet Vardhan
Hi, Is there anyway that I could prevent the call to getInstance of Category in every action class. So I can have instance of Category in base action class and every other class would extend from it. public class baseAction extends Action { static Category cat =

RE: Struggling with select/options

2001-02-27 Thread Martin J. La Jeunesse
Jean-Noel, merci beaucoup. Although using the collection mode of options, rather than name made, I'm accomplishing what I wanted to do. thanks again -Original Message- From: Jean-Nol Ribette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

(Newbie question) Abstracting/wrapping the HTML link tag

2001-02-27 Thread Bern McCarty
We specify CSS files in our JSP output with the HTML link tag. The precise CSS files referenced should sometimes be different depending on locale and a concept of brand within our application. I could easily write my own JSP tag to do this but I was wondering if struts already offered something

Re: stupid Q: setters are not called if properties are empty

2001-02-27 Thread martin . cooper
It's not a stupid question. I'm not sure if it's off-topic or not. :-) The JSP fragment you posted suggests that your JSP is being invoked directly. That is, the URL coming from the browser references the JSP, and not a Struts Action (e.g. doSomthing.do). If this is the case, then I don't

Re: How do I iterate thru a hashtable using iterate tag?

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Nimmi, Check the properties names. In the working variant they are: code, name, countryName. In the 2nd (not working variant) they are: seq_nbr, name, country_name. The second, maybe underscore sign is not allowed. Maya Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004 wrote: Hi, Could someone please tell me what I

German version of presentation online!

2001-02-27 Thread Craig Tataryn
Uwe Pleyer of Germany was gracious enough to translate the Struts Prensentation at http://www.us-eh.com/craiger/articles/struts/ to German! Check it out if that is your native tounge. Now I don't know German personally, so let me know if it's a real translation, or just some German drinking

RE: Has any one used struts and log4j successfully?

2001-02-27 Thread Martin J. La Jeunesse
I had a little trouble using PropertyConfigurator.configure() to log to a file: I wasn't exactly sure where to put the .lcf file so that servlets could find it. I ended-up coding an absolute location. I kind-of thought it should go in the application directory under WEBAPPS or in the application

Re: Has any one used struts and log4j successfully?

2001-02-27 Thread Mark Balster
PropertyConfigurator.configure() does like an absolute path and you still can give it one using a relative web path in your webapp directory. You can even specify the relative path your struts resource file ( if you chose to do so ). If you use a startup servlet, something like this should

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

RE: How do I iterate thru a hashtable using iterate tag?

2001-02-27 Thread Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004
No, the typo was on my email not in the code. -Nimmi -Original Message- From: Maya Muchnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I iterate thru a hashtable using iterate tag? Nimmi, Check the properties names. In

Is the struts example itself is multi-thread safe?

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
Hi, In "A Walking Tour of the Struts App", the author has mentioned that "There is only one object for each action (URI), so your action objects must be multi-thread safe". Is the example itself is multi-thread safe? I am asking this, because are several actions here, but not one of them use

RE: Is the struts example itself is multi-thread safe?

2001-02-27 Thread Deadman, Hal
The example is thread safe. Methods don't need to be synchronized if they aren't manipulating a shared object such as an instance variable. If your action class doesn't have any instance variables and it only deals with local variables and parameters then there is a good bet that it is thread

Re: Stupd question about Struts and EJB.

2001-02-27 Thread Nick Pellow
Hello, Robert Leland wrote: As far as struts 1.0, the Form bean is used only to redisplay information to the jsp page. Typically the EJB might be loaded/unloaded in the action class. If you search www.mail-archives.co,m Craig talked more about this in detail. My understanding is that

RE: Stupd question about Struts and EJB.

2001-02-27 Thread Deadman, Hal
I use EJBs without using copyProperties although it's a matter of preference. I have a set of JavaBeans that you could call "Data Beans" because they are often similar to my Entity Beans and they don't contain any business logic. They are struts free and I pass these data beans to some EJB

Re: Stupd question about Struts and EJB.

2001-02-27 Thread Maya Muchnik
I have the similar case with Beans not implemented "Serializable". I will use PropertyUtils.copyProperties(destBean, srcBean) to propogate the properties. Nick Pellow wrote: Hello, Robert Leland wrote: As far as struts 1.0, the Form bean is used only to redisplay information to the jsp

Re: Where are form tags?

2001-02-27 Thread martin . cooper
I'm not sure exactly what problem you're seeing, but here are a couple of points that might be relevant: 1) The taglib that used to be referred to with the 'form' prefix (e.g. form:html) is now deprecated. Those tags are now in the 'html' taglib (e.g. html:html). The old struts-form.tld is

Re: Stupd question about Struts and EJB.

2001-02-27 Thread Nick Pellow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the approach that I am using, but to simplify the design I have interconnected the view and model. I would like to eliminate this coupling- so if anyone has some suggestions or could recommend a pattern I could apply please let me know :) What I am doing

How does nested syntax in property attribute work

2001-02-27 Thread Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004
Hi, In some of the e-mails I have seen nested syntax being used for property attribute, e.g., html:text property="mailingAddress.street"/ what does that mean? Is it that the getMailingAddress() method of the bean will be called, and then what is ".street" for? -Nimmi

Has the image tag property attribute problem been fixed?

2001-02-27 Thread Sundar @eSaravana
Hello, Where is 26th nightly build binary/src version? Or any other build that has image tag fixed for property attribute. Cheers! Sundar

Newbie to Struts

2001-02-27 Thread JeanX
Hi all, Pls excuse for my poor english. I want to put request URIs that mapped to some actions in jsp:include tag like this: jsp:include page="/action.do?queryString=xxx" flush="true"/ And the container can execute the requested action ,but the client can not get the correct response.

Simple question about Struts

2001-02-27 Thread javaCool
Has anyone used Allaire's JRun and Struts yet? If so, are any of you fine people willing to share tips or tricks of what to do or not do? Thanks in advance. Mike V.

RE: form initialization using session

2001-02-27 Thread Simon Sadedin
The way this is typically handled is to use an Action to populate the bean. So instead of linking your user directly to the JSP page, you link them to an Action. Thanks for your response - i guess I arrived at the conclusion you propose. However I'm still unhappy with the notion that lots

Re: Stupd question about Struts and EJB.

2001-02-27 Thread martin . cooper
At 11:17 AM 2/28/01 +1100, Nick Pellow wrote: I am very new to struts as is, but as I far as I can tell from reading the implementation of the above method, the ActionForm can only have String properties. Is this correct? If so, it would be nice if the ActionForm could support types other than

struts and XSL

2001-02-27 Thread Michael_J_Quinn
There are many competing technologies to embrace the Model 2 pattern. I get the feeling that XML/XSL and Struts are mutually exclusive. Is this a valid concern ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The

Re: Volunteer for Validation Framework

2001-02-27 Thread Spencer Smith
I have a lot of experience using validation. I am of the opinion that if possible validation should be done client-side using javascript. Is there a way to implement this by extending Struts? If so, I would be very interested in helping. Currently, I am working on expanding Struts Custom Tag

Re: Stupd question about Struts and EJB.

2001-02-27 Thread Nick Pellow
Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:17 AM 2/28/01 +1100, Nick Pellow wrote: I am very new to struts as is, but as I far as I can tell from reading the implementation of the above method, the ActionForm can only have String properties. Is this correct? If so, it would be nice if the

Validating bean properties (WAS: Re: Stupd question aboutStruts and EJB.)

2001-02-27 Thread martin . cooper
Actually, the plan is to build exactly this type of validation into Struts 1.1. In particular, I am hoping to incorporate it into the automated bean creation tool, one way or another. The idea is to define your bean(s) in an XML file, and have the tool generate the actual bean code for you.

Re: Iteration with html:link - BUG?

2001-02-27 Thread Martin Cooper
Jessica, You have not closed the link tag. After the %= display %, you need /html:link. Also, you might want to look into using the Struts logic:iterate tag instead of using a while loop in a scriptlet. Hope this helps. -- Martin Cooper Tumbleweed Communications - Original Message -

Re: Validating bean properties (WAS: Re: Stupd question aboutStruts and EJB.)

2001-02-27 Thread Nick Pellow
Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the plan is to build exactly this type of validation into Struts 1.1. In particular, I am hoping to incorporate it into the automated bean creation tool, one way or another. Yup, I minutes after my lost post, I received the post for Volunteer

PROPOSAL: Template Screens

2001-02-27 Thread David Geary
Joel Regen wrote: David, Wouldn't it make sense to introduce a few attributes to the template tags that allow specification of values using references to beans? This idea is used extensively in the other struts tags. Look at the html:link tag, for example. It allows you to specify a bean