RE: Struts - Not instantiating Action class.

2005-03-29 Thread Fogleson, Allen
Sashi, What I would do to get around all this is just create your regular actions and such. Then in the JSP that you are calling just forward to the action needed. Something like this in the jsp will do the trick. <%@ page language="java" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tag

RE: Struts - Not instantiating Action class.

2005-03-29 Thread Shashikant Hire
Hi (1) The speech application is developed using vxml, Nuance has provided its own version of send command to invoke the jsp, which accept URI of jsp. Though nuance uses strut but it does not allows us to modify their struts-config.xml. (2) The log file (log4j) contain debugging info. In our form

RE: Struts - Not instantiating Action class.

2005-03-29 Thread Fogleson, Allen
Hmm 1) Why can't it use the XX.do of struts? Its just a resource as far as an external system is concerned. 2) How do you know the action is not instantiated? Are you getting an error message in tomcat? Can you send that along if so. Without an error message I would be want to think that the act

Struts - Not instantiating Action class.

2005-03-29 Thread Shashikant Hire
Hi, My application consists of two major component one is speech application and other is web application. The speech application send some data to web application, web app store that data in database. The speech application is developed using Nuance VBuilder and it is deployed in Nuance v-server

RE: REPOST: Relative URLs

2005-03-29 Thread tarek.nabil
Thanks everyone. I really like the idea of using a ServletContext attribute, but I'm not using the EL, is there a way I can do that without using the EL? -Original Message- From: Benedict, Paul C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:26 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing

RE: Load message resources from DB???

2005-03-29 Thread Fogleson, Allen
Dang, sorry I forgot to change the to field, and couldn't catch it before it went out. But at least it was only about 2K, so shorter than some reply's in here :) Al - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional com

RE: Load message resources from DB???

2005-03-29 Thread Fogleson, Allen
Mick, I figured you would want a copy so I'm sending without you asking :) Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:52 PM To: user@struts.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Load message resources from DB??? Even if

RE: Load message resources from DB???

2005-03-29 Thread Fogleson, Allen
Actually you have to extend MessageResources, and MessageResourcesFactory. I have a quick hack I did up tonight that works for a minimal case. (it does not do the substitution and such. But if you just have a key=value and value does not contain {x} in it then it will work. (Actually it will work

Re: Load message resources from DB???

2005-03-29 Thread Corey Probst
> Even if I could just get some general directions on what method to pull the > data in, and what method to put the data into what type of container. > Just something would be good. I think I remember reading a post about this before. Start by looking at the PropertyMessageResources source code,

Re: Multiple Sessions from the same workstation

2005-03-29 Thread kurt . e . williams
I followed Craig's advice about disableing cookies in the context element of Tomcat's server.xml file (or the [context].xml file in Tomcat 5.0) and we now have all our URLs rewritten with the sessionID without having to disable cookies at that browser. This allows us to run multiple sessions fro

RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Brian McGovern
Great tips. Exactly what I was lookin for. Thanks David. -Original Message- From: David G. Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:37 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP Brian, If you use a Tomcat resource reference to

RE: Load message resources from DB???

2005-03-29 Thread Mick.Knutson
Even if I could just get some general directions on what method to pull the data in, and what method to put the data into what type of container. Just something would be good. -- Thanks... Mick Knutson Systems Developer Business Direct Services, Wells Fargo Bank 333 Market Street, SF, CA

Re: [ANN] Bridgetown 0.9.2 Beta Release

2005-03-29 Thread Matt Raible
Care to tell us why you're re-inventing the wheel when there's Spring and Hivemind? Why is Bridgetown better than these frameworks? Matt On Mar 29, 2005, at 5:42 AM, Peter A. Pilgrim wrote: Yet another IoC container / AOP framework hybrid written and programmed by experience J2EE developer / ar

RE: Load message resources from DB???

2005-03-29 Thread Jason Long
I am still waiting for an example of this as well. I would very much like to add this feature, but is not critical and I have other things to work on. If you find an example please let me know. Thank you for your time, Jason Long CEO and Chief Software Engineer BS Physics, MS Chemical Engineeri

RE: Load message resources from DB???

2005-03-29 Thread Jason Long
I am still waiting for an example of this as well. I would very much like to add this feature, but is not critical and I have other things to work on. If you find an example please let me know. Thank you for your time, Jason Long CEO and Chief Software Engineer BS Physics, MS Chemical Engineeri

[ANN] Bridgetown 0.9.2 Beta Release

2005-03-29 Thread Peter A. Pilgrim
Yet another IoC container / AOP framework hybrid written and programmed by experience J2EE developer / architect. Latest new features : * AOP Service Assembler default implementation * Lumber Jacque virtual transaction service management architecture * Support for JTA virtual transact

RE: Load message resources from DB???

2005-03-29 Thread Mick.Knutson
Does anyone ahve any examples of extending the PropertyMessageResources and PropertyMessageResources Factory? -Original Message- From: Daniel Lipofsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:35 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Load me

RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread David G. Friedman
Brian, If you use a Tomcat resource reference to initialize your DB pool, be careful where you put it: the location you place that init reference makes the difference between YOUR webapp using the hibernate pool and ANY webapp being able to use your hibernate pool. Now, since someone posted about

RE: REPOST: Relative URLs

2005-03-29 Thread David G. Friedman
Dear Tarek, Action example URL: http://server/my-application/my-module/doSomething.do Resulting JSP's image example UR: http://server/my-application/images/some-image.gif What happens when you use html:img with (depending on your version of Struts): a) contextRelative="false"[for 1.1 or earl

Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread N G
Sure. Here is the code I have for a testApp I have to run tests in (for Hibernate). Not sure it's such a great practice to stick the SessionFactory onto ServletContext as far as best practices for Hibernate are concerned (new to Hibernate), but it works for my small Hibernate tests. So, Step 1: D

RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Brian McGovern
Ok.. Im not to sure how that works. Can you explain a little more? -Original Message- From: N G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:34 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP Oh... I didn't know that DBCP doesn't initialize the p

RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Brian McGovern
ARRG>... but someone beat me to it! hahhahaha -Original Message- From: Brian McGovern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:38 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP This is the first time i actually get to help someone in this user

RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Brian McGovern
This is the first time i actually get to help someone in this user list rather than asking a million questions like a little kid.. I ran into a bunch of problems with the microsoft driver. UGH>. horrible. It would double my pool size if the app was idle overnight. It wouldnt re-connect if the

Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Erik Weber
Kris Schneider wrote: Erik Weber wrote: If you are using SQL Server, I would say, watch out for the drivers as much as the DataSource implementation. I have read and heard many horror stories about the Microsoft drivers and have experienced problems myself (though pinpointing them is another ma

Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread N G
Oh... I didn't know that DBCP doesn't initialize the pool on server startup and thus misunderstood your question. Truth is, if you want to go the easiest route, without having to make your own Controller, you can just configure your Hibernate SessionFactory in a listener (ServletContextListener.co

Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Kris Schneider
Erik Weber wrote: If you are using SQL Server, I would say, watch out for the drivers as much as the DataSource implementation. I have read and heard many horror stories about the Microsoft drivers and have experienced problems myself (though pinpointing them is another matter). There are third

Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Erik Weber
If you are using SQL Server, I would say, watch out for the drivers as much as the DataSource implementation. I have read and heard many horror stories about the Microsoft drivers and have experienced problems myself (though pinpointing them is another matter). There are third party drivers out

RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Brian McGovern
Well all the folks in the Hibernate boards seem to favor either Proxool or C3P0. I've heard about the complaints on DBCP and am using SQL Server for this implementation so i'll watch out for connection leaks. It's really not that hard to switch the pooler, I'll probably give c3p0 a shot with a

Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Erik Weber
Interesting. Yeah, I was going to suggest writing some "trigger" code for startup, and it looks like that's what you have done. Also, you're not stuck with DBCP. There are many DataSource implementations out there, including others that are open source. I was hoping to get around to reviewing t

RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Brian McGovern
Eric Thanks for response. I wrote a follow up that explained my work around. But to your points, in using commons-dbcp and specifying the initial pool size of 5, you'd think that it would fire up the pool on application start but it doesnt. In code, you have to request a connection from the J

Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Erik Weber
In my opinion, the question is on topic. I'm not sure whether by "instantiated" you mean the pool class or the connection class. If it's the former, I'm not sure of the answer, but I would assume that the pool class typically is instantiated at server startup. If not, wouldn't the JNDI lookup fa

RE: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP [solution] - but would like opinions on my approach

2005-03-29 Thread Brian McGovern
I read that. And that doesn't explain how to create your pool on application server startup. It only explains how to create a pool on first data call. I worked around my problem "in struts" by creating a new base Controller as my action servlet which extends "ActionServlet". action com.i

Re: Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread N G
This has nothing to do with Struts: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html Good luck, NG. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:40:56 -0500, Brian McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im using struts, hibernate and dbcp connection pooling. Everything works > fine

Re: Filters

2005-03-29 Thread Craig McClanahan
If your filter really wants to do a RequestDispatcher.foward() call (to go someplace other than the servlet that the original request URI is mapped to), you can do that too ... you're not stuck with redirects. That way you don't lose your request parameters and attributes. Craig On Tue, 29 Mar

Re: Filters

2005-03-29 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Yeah, my bad... I cracked open the authorization filter I wrote because I didn't want to give a wrong answer off the top of my head... problem is, that filter just redirects to a "Go away, your not allowed in here!" kind of page, so there was no concern with losing request parameters in that use ca

Re: Filters

2005-03-29 Thread Joe Germuska
Frank's suggestion might work, although note that it would result in the discarding of all request parameters, which may not be what you want. If you have complex session initialization logic in an Action and you want to use it in the Filter, I'd suggest factoring it out into a utility class.

Struts , hibernate, and DBCP

2005-03-29 Thread Brian McGovern
Im using struts, hibernate and dbcp connection pooling. Everything works fine but regarding my connection pool. It gets intantiated on the first time I request a connection from the DBCP pool. I want it to create the pool when tomcat starts. I think i can do this with struts, but im not sure

Re: Filters

2005-03-29 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
response.sendRedirect(url); That's what I do. You do get a reference to request, so I would assume you could get a dispatcher off it and do what you always do. I've never had a need to try it though. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omny

Filters

2005-03-29 Thread Denis Avdic
Hello all, Although I've been using Struts for small projects for a while now, I haven't really used filters. Now I am incorporating some functionality from another project into mine, and the other project used plain old servlets and filters. My question is this: In filter's doFilter method, i

Re: Best practice for "dynamic reloading" of a part of the JSP ?

2005-03-29 Thread Don Brown
I'd also recommend looking at Javascript Templates - http://www.trimpath.com/project/wiki/JavaScriptTemplates - which is a template language like Velocity or JSP but using Javascript written in Javascript. You'd use this on the client side to process data and create HTML, then replace the HTML of

Re: I look for an example of LOGIC:ITERATE that iterates over an ARRAY

2005-03-29 Thread Jan-Jaap Endenburg - Vera
Thank you Günther, for your help: Now it works fine! Jan-Jaap Günther Wieser wrote: i think the example in the docs shows you almost everything: Next element is all you need to do is drop the "property" attribute as an array doesn't have properties. then it should work fine. so this is an "arr

RE: REPOST: Relative URLs

2005-03-29 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Erik, The problem may be that you are using JSP Tags, which are commonly written to only output links to resources within your context. You may want to simply think of writing plain old and tags and do it yourself. -Original Message- From: Erik Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue

Re: Best practice for "dynamic reloading" of a part of the JSP ?

2005-03-29 Thread Emmanouil Batsis
You may want to check out sarissa [1], a JS library i've written for doing this and other related tasks like XSLT and XPath using a crossbrowser API . It's well documented and open source. There's also a related turorial at oreilly's xml.com at [2]. I intent to wrap up some JSP taglibs to ease

Re: REPOST: Relative URLs

2005-03-29 Thread Erik Weber
Can't you embed a ServletContext attribute (variable) in your links using the EL? The attribute value could come from an init param and get set at app startup. Erik tarek.nabil wrote: Hi everyone, I still can not find an answer to my question, so I thought I'd repost this and try to make it clea

Re: Best practice for "dynamic reloading" of a part of the JSP ?

2005-03-29 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I reposted it at the same address. Of perhaps more interest though... I am working on an article covering this in more details with a few more examples. I'm hoping to finish it today, tomorrow at the latest. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://w

REPOST: Relative URLs

2005-03-29 Thread tarek.nabil
Hi everyone, I still can not find an answer to my question, so I thought I'd repost this and try to make it clearer. I really apreciate any help. How can I refer to resources that are outside my module in a way that will not mandate rewriting all the URLs in case I change the location of my modu

RE: user Digest 24 Mar 2005 14:53:20 -0000 Issue 5708

2005-03-29 Thread David G. Friedman
Ken, Over the year or so I've been subscribed to this list, I've seen discussions (and read referenced articles) suggesting web servers such as Tomcat do well for moderate traffic as long as the Session Scope contains less than 1k of data. Putting 2 integers into Session scope doesn't sound like

RE: DispatchAction defaults

2005-03-29 Thread David G. Friedman
I tried those methods once in version 1.1 and when the param was "" (null string), I received a Stack trace but it worked fine if I didn't specify the "param=". Of course, this was so long ago I may have that reversed it in my memory. Regards, David -Original Message- From: Dakota Jack [

Re: DispatchAction defaults

2005-03-29 Thread Dakota Jack
For what it is worth, I agree wholeheartedly with Rick, that this use of "unspecified(...)" is not wise. If you want a default method, call it "default(...)" and leave unspecified(...) as it is. Jack -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ ---

RE: I look for an example of LOGIC:ITERATE that iterates over an ARRAY

2005-03-29 Thread Günther Wieser
i think the example in the docs shows you almost everything: Next element is all you need to do is drop the "property" attribute as an array doesn't have properties. then it should work fine. so this is an "array" version: Next element in array is kr, guenther -- Günther Wieser creat

I look for an example of LOGIC:ITERATE that iterates over an ARRAY

2005-03-29 Thread Jan-Jaap Endenburg - Vera
Hi everyone, I look for an example of that iterates over an array (of strings): I am not sure how to display these array-values in my jsp-page: should this be done with ? If so: what should I fill for name & property? Thanks for your help! Jan-Jaap --

Re: Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms?

2005-03-29 Thread David Kennedy
Rick Reumann wrote: David Kennedy wrote the following on 3/18/2005 9:01 PM: > [snip me talking about Layout] But the above has never been the role of struts - to create view components. Yes, I agree and understand the relationships between the projects better now. I must apologise, much of the pr

Re: Source code for Struts 1.1

2005-03-29 Thread Keng Onn
Thanks for all the replies! I've found and downloaded the source code. Btw, just to confirm, coz there are 6 folders within, namely 1. conf 2. contrib 3. doc 4. legacy 5. src 6. web The source code should be inside src/share issit? Coz there're another 7 folders within src, namely i) example, ii

RE: user Digest 24 Mar 2005 14:53:20 -0000 Issue 5708

2005-03-29 Thread Keng Onn
Thanks for the advice, David :)! But isn't it more troublesome (coz I gotta manually remove it afterwards :P) / memory intensive to store variables in session scope instead of request scope? Coz I thought (from reading somewhere on the Internet) that we should generally restrict the scope as muc

Best strategy

2005-03-29 Thread nitin dubey
Hello, I am using DispatchAction unspecified() method to populate the ActionForm. Form object in unspecified() method is coming properly but when I try to access the properties in my JSP using JSTL it does not show up. I am putting some values in the form that have no associated controls in the

Re: Multiple Sessions from the same workstation

2005-03-29 Thread Craig McClanahan
> >2. If URL rewriting is the only alternative, is there a way to configure > >Tomcat to use URL rewriting regardless of whether >the browser allows > >cookies or not? Or, to answer the question that was actually asked, set cookies="false" on the element (in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml) that