Re: tiles: some questions

2002-12-04 Thread John Nicholas
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Re: tiles: some questions

2002-12-04 Thread John Nicholas
Paul Hodgetts wrote: John Nicholas wrote: Yes, you want to have all page access go through the controller even when it seems like it's not doing anything. There is a default Action for this. action path=/mypath type=com.aapromo.RestrictedForewardAction

Re: struts concerns

2002-11-14 Thread John Nicholas
Andrew Hill wrote: There are cases where using Struts would be overkill. Hello World? ;-) I started out thinking this too, and was first using Struts more to build a skill set than because I thought it was going to actually help me get a project done faster. Now my first step of any

Re: [OT] OJB/Struts and Jetspeed

2002-11-05 Thread John Nicholas
James Higginbotham wrote: Do you think that using the portal features of tiles could help in developing a portal application based on Struts? Well, if you need something now, like me, then you'll probably be doing what I do - comparing the potential of Jetspeed's codebase vs. writing

Struts and JRun advice

2002-11-01 Thread John Nicholas
of some of JRun's Flash integration. I know that java supposed to run everywhere but I see many posts about problems with struts under WebSphere and iPlanet. Anyone have advice or recommendations about JRun? Is anything gained besides the Flash integration? Thanks, John Nicholas -- To unsubscribe

Advantages of other frameworks

2002-10-29 Thread John Nicholas
This was at the end of another thread and didn't get any response so I'm moving it into a new thread. John Nicholas -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:jmitchtx;telocity.com] I'm not here to argue about Struts' performance. Anyone who chooses another framework over

Re: static pages

2002-10-28 Thread John Nicholas
Andrew Hill wrote: Barracuda? -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:jmitchtx;telocity.com] I'm not here to argue about Struts' performance. Anyone who chooses another framework over Struts either doesn't need Struts or they don't know what it has to offer. I have yet to meet

Re: Validator later rather than sooner?

2002-10-24 Thread John Nicholas
Vincent PROSPER wrote: Another thing I dont like in Struts Validator is that html:errors/ translation comes preformatted (error title is not i18N compliant, encapsulated in h3../h3 and with an ugly hr/): you loose the ability of putting a well displayed error beside each field of your form (this

Re: action mapping input

2002-10-18 Thread John Nicholas
) fails the action is never run so it couldn't use the forward. The controller is returning you to the input page. If a validation in the action fails (like a business logic failure)then you can use a failure forward. John Nicholas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe

Validator never fails on DynaValidatorForm

2002-09-27 Thread John Nicholas
I'm using the DynaForm / Validator stuff for the first time, I've always written out the Forms and Actions before. Everything seems in place but the Validator never catches an error and the submit always succeeds.This is a test where a form submits to testformSubmit which should fail if the

Re: struts 2.0 naming conventions?

2002-09-27 Thread John Nicholas
Well, i think that people casually refer to it as a form bean because it's currently named ActionForm. If the class had been named RequestParametersBean from the start, i doubt very much that today people would be calling it a form bean. I think it's the word form in there that's causing

Validator and DynaValidatorForm

2002-09-25 Thread John Nicholas
I'm using the DynaForm / Validator stuff for the first time, I've always written out the Forms and Actions before. Everything seems in place but the Validator never catches an error and the submit always succeeds. from struts-config.xml: form-bean name=testbean

Re: SAP DB

2002-09-06 Thread John Nicholas
Ferran Parra wrote: Hi is the SAP DB open source database a good DBMS?? why not is popular than mysql?? thanks --- Ferran Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mubimedia.com MUBIMEDIA S.L. C/ Mallorca, 275, 1r 2a 08008 BCN Tel: 93 215 21

Re: Are we getting off the topic

2002-08-28 Thread John Nicholas
Tero P Paananen wrote: This board is too valuable to me. Any thoughts? Agree... Disagree? Agree STRONGLY. There's a reason why I subscribe to Struts mailing list and not to General Java or Tomcat Debug mailing list. The posts about general Java and Tomcat issues are going to be

Re: Model 2 and Caching

2002-07-18 Thread John Nicholas
system written in java and has a nice caching approach so it doesn't do the transform every time. it's not based around struts or jsp but it seems very nice if you're in an xml heavy setting.It also has that friendly Apache license. John Nicholas Sr Interactive Programmer Temerlin McClain

Re: Model 2 and Caching

2002-07-18 Thread John Nicholas
Jacob Hookom wrote: Hey, For a prelude: I was chatting with my dad over a beer about how the company he works for is training all of their HR people on how to use Dreamweaver to generate content for their internet/intranets. Appalled, I asked him whose bright idea was it; to which he

Re: Use Jakarta's ObjectRelationalBridge (OJB) for your Struts app'spersistence layer

2002-06-20 Thread John Nicholas
in one simple download and tutorial.I know a lot of this is in Expresso but I'd like to have it all under one license and tutorial. I haven't tried Expresso but it looks like it replaces several Struts pieces rather than just addding functionality. John Nicholas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: Use Jakarta's ObjectRelationalBridge (OJB) for your Struts app'spersistencelayer

2002-06-20 Thread John Nicholas
it helps with the whole decision making process and jakarta projects have good mailing lists. Thanks, John Nicholas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Forms and editing FormFiles

2002-06-18 Thread John Nicholas
I have a file upload field in a form. I was adapting the form to handle editing existing entries and ran into a stumbling block. When bringing up a pre-populated form that has a file upload field how should I handle it? Do I need to load the formfile in the bean? Then what? Example: Let's say

Re: Forms and editing FormFiles

2002-06-18 Thread John Nicholas
Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atlanta, the Open Minded Developer Network http://struts-atlanta.open-tools.org -Original Message- From: John Nicholas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Forms and editing FormFiles I

Re: .JSP / .ASP Integration

2002-06-07 Thread John Nicholas
than link them to the asp apps you would have pages that loaded and decorated the output of those apps. I haven't used it but have just started looking at it for this exact situation (loading existing asp output into a java site) John Nicholas Jerry Jalenak wrote: Thanks to everyone (so far

Re: Flash and Struts

2002-06-06 Thread John Nicholas
Joe Rice wrote: I'm new to Flash but have still been charged with researching the possibility of using Flash as the front end of a struts web application that has already been built with JSP's. Has anyone used Flash with Struts, and if so, do you have any suggestions, tutorials etc... you

Re: Template Engine of Choice

2002-05-07 Thread John Nicholas
over the Tiles approach. Maybe you should whip up a Struts meets Sitemesh tutorial. What other rendering tools are people using with Struts? Struts seems good for all the form handling side but I don't think that the template tags are the best approach for the sites I am working on. John

Re: Template Engine of Choice

2002-05-07 Thread John Nicholas
Cedric Dumoulin wrote: - all the pagelets that comprise a full page can be generated as well-formed HTML documents. This makes it easier for them to be designed and built than other systems (e.g. Tiles) where a pagelet might be just a table (thinking real world/real people here: designers using

Re: James Mitchell is Rude and Ignorant

2002-05-02 Thread John Nicholas
Micael Padraig Og mac Grene wrote: Mark, You don't get it either. This is a STRUTS specific question. Thanks for trying to help, however. If no one understands your question maybe you aren't asking it clearly. I know Flash and to me it sounds like you're asking about Struts writing