Re: [OFF TOPIC] JavaScript + select tag question

2003-08-10 Thread Adam Hardy
Might be OT, but I still think the selectbox element doesn't have a value property - only an options collection, so - x = document.forms[0].elements[anySelectbox].selectedIndex; item = document.forms[0].elements[anySelectbox].options[x].value BTW do you know if using the name directly as in

RE: Still struggeling: howto get ActionForward to calling page

2003-08-10 Thread Yansheng Lin
Will this work with browser's back button as well? You need to use session scope for this to work, right? No cache allowed of course... -Original Message- From: Kamholz, Keith (corp-staff) USX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 6, 2003 8:13 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'

RE: Validator

2003-08-10 Thread Yansheng Lin
??? I don't see it in my validation-rules.xml. Which version are you using? -Original Message- From: Erez Efrati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 6, 2003 3:33 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: Validator I am trying to figure out the code in

Re: how to pass a jsp variable to a javascript function

2003-08-10 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Julie, what do you get as a result of that iterate? It looks correct. Do you have javascript errors? Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Can anyone suggest how to pass a jsp variable to a javascript function correctly? It is in a nested:iterate block that has an indexId=tmpIndex. what I

html:file question

2003-08-10 Thread Daniel Massie
Is it possible to apply a style to the button of the html:file tag? Daniel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [FRIDAY] Impossible requirements customer expectation management [WAS: methodto get new Id to next action when old Id is in request?]

2003-08-10 Thread Nicholas L Mohler
My experience...you have to explain the consequences in layman's terms (no geek talk, and yes, I am a computer geek). If you can, instead of explaining why the software won't work given the requirement, and a real-life example that the customer can relate to and understand...for example,

RE: JSTL ot struts taglibs?

2003-08-10 Thread David Graham
If they aren't faster in performance then something is wrong. All the JSP rendering practically has to do is put the code as is into the Servlet which is a Java class. No interpretation. I haven't looked at the source but I am sure the optimization for rendering code for Scriptlets vs

Re: Tiles status and feature suggestion WAS accessing Attribute of a parent-tile-definition

2003-08-10 Thread Reinhard
o Firstly, Tiles assumes that a page is composed of multiple content areas where you have one piece of content to an area. This is true for a simplistic site Not at all. If you use Tiles-controllers, you can dynamically create your component-content and insert it in your layout using the

Re: [OT] - [TOPIC] - [VOTE]

2003-08-10 Thread rajendra . x . yadav
Yes, it's a big company in India and other places also. One of the leading services company in India.. right Puneet ? thanks -raj

RE: New Bie: How to apply styles to submit buttons created with s truts tags

2003-08-10 Thread sriram
You define a style class in your style sheet. Include the .css file in your .jsp (using link tag). Use the required style class in html:submit styleClass=your style class name . / I have done it this way and it worked. -Original Message- From: Seshadhri Srinivasan [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Percieved Performance Issues using MVC

2003-08-10 Thread David Graham
To maintain a separation of your data layer and presentation you could wrap an Iterator implementation around your ResultSet. That allows you to change the persistence mechanism without any other code changing. David --- Ortega, Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that requires

RE: JSTL ot struts taglibs?

2003-08-10 Thread Bailey, Shane C.
Going by this statement that you replied to and didn't correct anything about it: there's a good chance that (in the future) containers will have their own optimized versions of the JSTL-tags, there are already some implemented in TC5.x It doesn't sound like the optimization is totally

RE: [OT] - [TOPIC] - [VOTE]

2003-08-10 Thread Andrew Hill
Yep. Its interesting to note that one of the major struts development tools (Camino) was developed here in Singapore (by Scioworks Technologies). Id imagine that once the recession is over and companies start to spend on IT projects again we will see even more adoption adoption of struts in the

single checkbox - still use html:multibox?

2003-08-10 Thread David Thielen
Hi; If I have a single checkbox on my page, should I still use multibox? And if not, what do I use? thanks - dave

Re: How to configure commons-logging on JDK1.4

2003-08-10 Thread Reinhard
The answer to your problem is: at the homepage of commons-logging (where you'll find the online doc) and you don't need to join the mailing-list of commons ;-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: force precompilation of JSPs

2003-08-10 Thread Kamholz, Keith (corp-staff) USX
Yes. :-) -Original Message- From: Ionel Gardais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:48 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: force precompilation of JSPs Hi, I am experiencing a slow down when I access a JSP page for the first time after I deploy e web

[OT] TLD question

2003-08-10 Thread Andy Kriger
I downloaded the JSTL from Sun. In the tld directory there are 2 TLDs for each taglib. Example: c.tld and c-rt.tld Do I need to copy both of these to my WEB-INF dir? Do I need to reference both of these in the JSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] directive? thx andy

RE: Cancel Button Not Working in 1.1

2003-08-10 Thread Mark Galbreath
html:cancel/ Doesn't work for me, either. -Original Message- From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:40 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Cancel Button Not Working in 1.1 Please post the tag you're using to render the cancel

Re: Application Design Document -- Struts Studio - Independent opinion

2003-08-10 Thread Alen Ribic
To subscribe to the list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:47 AM Subject: Application Design Document -- Struts Studio - Independent opinion Hi

Re: How to configure commons-logging on JDK1.4

2003-08-10 Thread Kris Schneider
If you're happy with Jdk14Logger instead of SimpleLog, that's fine. But I just verified that you *can* get SimpleLog to work with JDK1.4. As I said, make sure commons-logging.properties is in WEB-INF/classes, *not* a subdirectory. Quoting Koni Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Kris I read an

RE: Model and Business in Struts

2003-08-10 Thread Andrew Hill
Heres one to look at: http://www.jcorporate.com/econtent/Content.do?state=templatetemplate=2reso urce=636db=default (Expresso from jcorporate. (Its opensource)) Havent tried it myself. If you use it, be sure to share your experiences with the list :-) -Original Message- From: Mehdi

Extending Tiles Role Attribute

2003-08-10 Thread Terry Brick
Hi, I really need to ability to specify multiple roles in my tiles tags (using the role attribute) like we can with Actions. I did a quick text search on the struts source and it looks like maybe it's using Strut's RequestProcessor. In case anyone has done this, I'm just hoping someone can point

Re: struts help required urgent

2003-08-10 Thread Nagendra Kumar O V S
hi, u will need a request parameter for executing a method on a dispatch action class(not request attribute). so u can forward ur control something like this return new

Re: Returning values from a BasicDynaBean in jsp

2003-08-10 Thread Kris Schneider
Didn't like the JSTL Result suggestion, I guess ;-). As a JavaBean, BasicDynaBean only exposes two properties: dynaClass and class (both are read-only). So, that's all JSTL can get out of a BasicDynaBean instance. The Struts tags, on the other hand, leverage BeanUtils/PropertyUtils so they're

RE: JSTL ot struts taglibs?

2003-08-10 Thread Bailey, Shane C.
Another debate. Your debate was to make me feel like I was doing something wrong by posting my opinion. There was no debate. The tags do speak for themselves and if you think that $var which Java allows but is NEVER used is acceptable syntax for a tag then that speaks volumes as well. Never

RE: method to get new Id to next action when old Id is in request?

2003-08-10 Thread Andrew Hill
hah. Thats nothing! Wait till you try coding it without hidden variables AND standing upside down in a hammock while playing bagpipes at the same time. Using .net On a 486 with no monitor ...ah Friday is that BEER I can smell? hmmm I know how about tacking it on as a query parameter to the

RE: simple JSTL question

2003-08-10 Thread Erez Efrati
Thanks Yan, Erez -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yann Cbron Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: simple JSTL question 1) How do I subscribe to the JSTL mailing list? (I rather ask simple dumb questions than stay

RE: Update button on a form

2003-08-10 Thread Wendy Smoak
David Thielen wrote: I have a form with a submit, reset, and update button. How do I handle control of the update button (go to a different action)? How is submit different from update? And reset depends on how you do it... A typical reset button on a form is client-side, it just puts the

RE: Internationalizing 100's of pages of text

2003-08-10 Thread Gary Kephart
Is there a reason you don't want to put the content into a database? The content writers are remote, so I would have to create web access to a database. Too much work. Plus, I don't think that the content lends itself to databases. Gary Gary Kephart| New Century Mortgage

RE: [FRIDAY] Impossible requirements customer expectation management [WAS: method to get new Id to next action when old Id is in request?]

2003-08-10 Thread Paananen, Tero
My experience...you have to explain the consequences in layman's terms (no geek talk, and yes, I am a computer geek). If you can, instead of explaining why the software won't work given the requirement, and a real-life example that the customer can relate to and understand...for example,

RE: Apache Tomcat web servers

2003-08-10 Thread Hue Holleran
Hi yan, I would be inclined to keep-away from ISPs who do not have good and *extensively* proven experience with JSP and only go with those who are specifically recommended to you for JSP. I fell-out with a UK-based ISP (servers hosted in the US/Canada) in the last 6 months after

RE: JSTL ot struts taglibs?

2003-08-10 Thread David Graham
--- Bailey, Shane C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't get me wrong, I think scriptlets are ugly and shouldn't be used but like I said JSTL is not da bomb and if already know Struts tags I wouldn't go rewriting my code to JSTL until I have seen what JSF and any new technology near by has in

RE: Actions Best Practice

2003-08-10 Thread Erez Efrati
You're right it is a good option. Thanks, Erez -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Actions Best Practice That's not necessary. In the action mapping, you can specify the action

Re: problem with bean:write and capitalization of attribute name

2003-08-10 Thread David Graham
This is standard JavaBean behavior. Regardless, I encourage you to use lastName instead because lName is rather ugly and confusing. David --- Wes Rood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an object as follows public class Contact { ... private String lName; // the contact's last name

A Relevant Observation

2003-08-10 Thread Mark Galbreath
Check out the June issue of Java Developer's Journal (vol. 8, issue 6), page 8. I agree 100 percent with Joseph Ottinger. Things have gotten entirely out of hand. http://sys-con.com/java/ - content:editorial - vol. 8, issue 6 Mark

Re: Apache Tomcat web servers

2003-08-10 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Hue, thanks for the comprehensive run-down on hosting. Perhaps you should get the company put on http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/resources/hosts.html for the record. Actually it's a shame that there are no comments about the current hosting companies on that list. By the way Hue, you

RE: RE: Chain of Command

2003-08-10 Thread Rohit Aeron
Hi ~~ Why you have to send one mail so many times I received 3 copy of your mail Do you have problem with your mail system .. Regards Rohit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: method to get new Id to next action when old Id is in request?

2003-08-10 Thread Bailey, Shane C.
I forgot to add the line of code in the edit method that inserts into form bean. Also, I should have assumed that you are going to re-use the sectionEdit... sectionEdit_execute() { int id = form.getId(); if(id==0) { try{ Integer

Custom Validator

2003-08-10 Thread Kamholz, Keith (corp-staff) USX
Hey everyone, I've got some nice custom validations working using the validation framework. However, I'm having a hard time with one seemingly imple issue. In the validation method in my custom validation class, how do I get the value of the field I'm validating? I found one example that did

Re: [OFF TOPIC] JavaScript + select tag question

2003-08-10 Thread Mark Lowe
script language=javascript type=text/javascript !-- function doSubmit() { var url = 'html:rewrite page=/search.do /?foo=bar'; } ...or if your function isn't in the html page function doSubmit(url) { } onSomeEvent=doSubmit('html:rewrite page=/serach.do /')

RE: Apache Tomcat web servers

2003-08-10 Thread Hue Holleran
Hi Adam, thanks for the comprehensive run-down on hosting. Perhaps you should get the company put on http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/resources/hosts.html Yes, maybe - although they're not dedicated tomcat hosting. By the way Hue, you neglected to state one very important fact - how much

Apache Tomcat web servers

2003-08-10 Thread yan
Hi, I am trying to find a Web host for my JSP applications, but I am finding it very difficult locating a suitable host. Anyone know of any good Web hosting vendors who support MySQl, Apache server and the Apache Tomcat servlet container? I prefer a UK based host as this is where I reside.

Re: JSTL and Struts-el

2003-08-10 Thread Marco Tedone
Sorry Mark, could you please rewrite this email trying to be understandable for an EOFL? Thank you very much :) Marco - Original Message - From: Mark Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: Re: JSTL and

RE: JSTL ot struts taglibs?

2003-08-10 Thread Bailey, Shane C.
Scriptlets are more powerful (you can do ANYTHING Java can do), faster, is a standard (it is the Java language you know) and if you are going to spend time learning a new language (${var} == pooPoo) then you would be better off learning Java (assuming you don't already know it) cause then you

Validator real time expression vars

2003-08-10 Thread Erez Efrati
Is there a way to use vars in validation.xml field ... that are not constants in a way that the javascript will use these values? Thanks, Erez - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Apache Tomcat web servers

2003-08-10 Thread yan
Thanks for the advice Hue, you have given me a lot to go on there - much appreciated. Do memset.com actually support Apache/Tomcat? I couldn't quite see a reference to it under their products on there site. I have been considering http://www.nameonthe.net or http://www.joshuainternet.com

Re: single checkbox - still use html:multibox?

2003-08-10 Thread David Thielen
thank you very very much - dave - Original Message - From: Yansheng Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:43 PM Subject: RE: single checkbox - still use html:multibox? Oh I meant taglib api ref, not the javadoc ref.

RE: Tiles related question

2003-08-10 Thread JavaXML Developer
I know that. But i am looking for a simple example or tutorial particularly for tiles. If anyone knows, let me know. Bailey, Shane C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are practically there; you know Java and XML and that's all you need to know with Tiles.

Re: JSTL and Struts-el

2003-08-10 Thread Marco Tedone
Are you telling me that ${customer.name} it's enough for Struts-el to look for a customer bean stored in any scope and process a getName() method? If so, that's great. Would it be a good approach to have taglibs, jstl and struts from their respective bundles? I downloaded taglibs (complete

Re: [APPLICATION SCOPE] -How and Where to store in app scope

2003-08-10 Thread Thomas Cornet
IMHO, the best thing to do is to create a Plugin, where you'll store all what you need to. The plugin init method is executed once while the servlet container loads the webapp. http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/org/apache/struts/action/PlugIn.html Thomas At 16:40 05/08/2003, you wrote:

Re: JSTL and Struts-el

2003-08-10 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Marco Tedone wrote: Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:33:14 +0100 From: Marco Tedone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: JSTL and Struts-el Are you telling me that ${customer.name}

Re: Returning values from a BasicDynaBean in jsp

2003-08-10 Thread Kris Schneider
I guess my previous example wasn't clearly formatted, but it certainly wasn't supposed to illustrate executing a query from a JSP. Here's a modified example: Java (e.g. an action): -- import javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.sql.Result; import javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.sql.ResultSupport;

RE: Actions Best Practice

2003-08-10 Thread Erez Efrati
The only thing you cannot do is having a mixture of this solution (having the action-mapping parameter set to the 'init' or else) and the one of DispatchAction class that keeps all the operation under the same roof (class). Erez -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL

Validator

2003-08-10 Thread Erez Efrati
I am trying to figure out the code in struts.validator.FieldsCheck.java in order to write one of my own. Can someone explain what the purpose of the following lines of code in all of the validateXXX() in Struts: validateIntRange (...) { if (isString(bean)) {

RE: Location of JSPs for TILES

2003-08-10 Thread Cameron Hickey
Thanks for the response Marty, I am using Tomcat 4.1.24, and have no problem generally putting these files into the /jsp folder, its only when I put them into the /jsp/prop folder that there are problems. Where can I find out what the rules are for folders to hold JSPs for either struts, or

RE: Is this a bug with struts config file?

2003-08-10 Thread Rohit Aeron
I don't think you need to put .do. Actually in the web.xml file you have following code servlet-mapping servlet-nameaction/servlet-name url-pattern*.do/url-pattern /servlet-mapping here you can configure as you want you can configure *.yup also it works. Regards Rohit

Re: method to get new Id to next action when old Id is in request?

2003-08-10 Thread Ted Husted
When you forward from one action to another, Struts treats it just like a new request from the client. If a parameter was used to populate an ActionForm from one action, that same parameter will be used to populate every other action in the chain that uses the same ActionForm in the same

RE: Avoiding jsessionid appending in a redirect

2003-08-10 Thread Hue Holleran
Hi Chris, I posted a response to this recently: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-userm=106018678002719w=2 -Original Message- From: Chris Boulter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 August 2003 19:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Avoiding jsessionid appending in a redirect

RE: Is this a bug with struts config file?

2003-08-10 Thread Richard J. Duncan
My experience is the same as yours. That while the .do can be omitted in the action definition, it may not be omitted in the forward. FWIW, I think this is proper behavior. Certainly if you html:link to the forward your html pages will be do-less. Also, you can change to another scheme (e.g.,

Re: initializing ActionForm from a session bean

2003-08-10 Thread David Thielen
I'm a moron - I found the overloaded method with HttpServletRequest. So, is the way to tie to a session bean to do a HttpServletRequest.getSession().get/setAttribute()? thanks - dave - Original Message - From: David Thielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts-Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

redirecting problem

2003-08-10 Thread harm
Hi all, In my struts application I need to check if some information is still valid. If not then I need to redirect the user to some other page. The page I need to send the user to is not static. So I need to calculate to which page the user needs to be redirected. In my Action class I would

RE: [FRIDAY] [JOKE] Here is an old one

2003-08-10 Thread PREETAM Balijepalli
so u both are completing last answer -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:09 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [FRIDAY] [JOKE] Here is an old one The way I remember that joke, the word wasn't Mating ;) --

Re: LookupDispatchAction error

2003-08-10 Thread OFlaherty, Colm
My thanks go to both Wendy and Shane on this one. I found a third way to get around it, which is closest to my original intent: I pointed the global forward to the jsp page called test.jsp (instead of directly at the action!). The jsp page then links correctly to the action using html:link,

Dynamic multimedia content with Struts...

2003-08-10 Thread Todor Sergueev Petkov
Hello everybody : is it possible with struts tag libraries to retrive dynamically for example pictures from a database and place them on the jsp page on the fly And also another question : I would like a user to be able to select from a page certain file names ( dynamicaly generated ) and

RE: JSTL ot struts taglibs?

2003-08-10 Thread Bailey, Shane C.
If I knew then I would be selling you some awesome piece of software that solved all your problems, now wouldn't I? I'm trying state my opinion and learn (from replies). About the only thing in that statement that I know is verifiably screwed up is that Ant has no $var and I apologized and