RE: [Friday] - finding the Mavens in the Java world

2006-02-03 Thread David Thielen
mavens "bless" a product is a much more powerful first step, even if it is less direct than going straight to the connectors. Anyways, thank you very much for the pointer - will send an offer of a free copy to all of them. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 30

RE: [Friday] - finding the Mavens in the Java world

2006-02-03 Thread David Thielen
much time. On the flip side, I've had people in Malaysia and Vietnam tell me that the extra time required for Jasper was ok in their case as salaries are so low there. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

[Friday] - finding the Mavens in the Java world

2006-02-03 Thread David Thielen
7;ll probably post or write about it. So we're not asking them to do anything - but we figure our odds are pretty good they will. (Yes, we believe that much in our reporting engine.) So. Any ideas on how to find these people and make the offer to them? Thanks - dave David Thielen

logfile weirdness

2006-01-30 Thread David Thielen
I am having a problem where requested pages are not being listed in my IIS log - and I need those entries for my web tracking. I know this isn't struts (it's JSF) but I figure someone here might know the answer to this. My environment is as follows. The site is IIS 6.0 with Tomcat 5.5. All requ

RE: hard question - Single Sign On

2006-01-24 Thread David Thielen
all of it, not just the security). Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: Lixin Chu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:18 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: hard question - Single Sign On may you would

RE: I think "Learning Jakarta Struts 1.2" has a bunch of wrong info

2006-01-24 Thread David Thielen
I thought under struts 1.2 + jstl 1.1 + JSP 2.0 you get the expression language even without struts-el as the ${var} gets evaluated everywhere. Or did I not understand something? Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: Max Cooper

I think "Learning Jakarta Struts 1.2" has a bunch of wrong info

2006-01-24 Thread David Thielen
truts tags like bean)? 2. It says to use struts-el with jstl. I thought jstl eliminated the need for struts-el? Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

RE: A couple of simple questions

2006-01-23 Thread David Thielen
2) That's what I thought too. What is weird is if my main page in a html file and I click refresh, it does not change the pages in each frameset (which is what I want). But if that main page was a jsp page, then it set the frameset pages to what the main page set them too, as opposed to what they h

RE: A couple of simple questions

2006-01-23 Thread David Thielen
The servlet that I have created and am accessing via struts. (So it might be more correct to say when my struts app is first called via the struts servlet.) Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: A couple of simple questions

2006-01-23 Thread David Thielen
Asking again - thanks - dave -Original Message- Hi; 1) I want my default page to be index.do so I set the following in web.xml: index.do But instead I get a directory of files in my root when I go to the servlet. I can do this which works: index.txt It

RE: bi-di messages and dir="RTL"?

2006-01-22 Thread David Thielen
he message hi there but then I can't escape any text and have to make sure I have escaped things in my messages. And I have a feeling this could get weird where some of the text on my page I am pulling from a database and have no idea what it's direction is. Is there a better way?

submit button value vs displayed text

2006-01-20 Thread David Thielen
pears that the value= if set, is always placed in the button. ??? - thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

hard question - Single Sign On

2006-01-20 Thread David Thielen
hout having to store the user's username & password. b. If we do have to store it, what is the best way to do so? This is the one part of our portal where we are willing to write dependent code as having this be true SSO with us storing nothing is such a good thing. Suggestion

A couple of simple questions

2006-01-20 Thread David Thielen
k, but does not reduce it. Thanks - dave David Thielen <http://www.windwardreports.com> www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

RE: struts javadocs?

2006-01-19 Thread David Thielen
Where is the war file found? I downloaded the lib & src .zip files and they don't have it. ??? - thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:01 PM To: Str

RE: struts javadocs?

2006-01-19 Thread David Thielen
Hi; I'm using 1.2.8 (latest release) and I can't find anywhere to download the javadocs. There are on the web at http://struts.apache.org/struts-doc-1.2.x/api/index.html so I'm covered but I prefer local cause it's a bit faster. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardrepo

struts javadocs?

2006-01-19 Thread David Thielen
Hi; Are there javadocs for struts anywhere? All I can find is in the source .zip it has a bunch of xml files - but no html. I'm using my old struts javadocs from 18 months ago. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

b-di messages and dir="RTL"?

2006-01-19 Thread David Thielen
ings in my messages. And I have a feeling this could get weird where some of the text on my page I am pulling from a database and have no idea what it's direction is. Is there a better way? Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

RE: struts/jsp security/access question

2006-01-19 Thread David Thielen
Because none of the books and articles I have seen mention it??? Thank you - that is a very clean solution. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:36 PM To

struts/jsp security/access question

2006-01-19 Thread David Thielen
e global attribute is set to, not going back further. Any other approaches? Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

RE: Call method before index.jsp is built?

2006-01-19 Thread David Thielen
check when it was going to be rendered and if the user was not authorized, forwarded them to the home page.) Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:42 PM To: Struts

Call method before index.jsp is built?

2006-01-19 Thread David Thielen
me in index.jsp. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

file upload via struts

2006-01-18 Thread David Thielen
Hi; Is the best way to do this still FormFile and anyone have a url to a good/correct example? (I've written tons of enterprise level java code, but never a file upload or browse button.) Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

RE: Struts JSTL & EL

2006-01-18 Thread David Thielen
evolved quite a bit in the last 12 - 18 months when I last used it - nice to see stuff advance so fast. David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:31 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List

RE: Starting with struts again

2006-01-18 Thread David Thielen
This is great!! Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Original Message- From: Rick R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:05 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Starting with struts again David Thielen wrote

Struts JSTL & EL

2006-01-18 Thread David Thielen
n of Struts, JSTL, and/or JSP? All my books are for the previous versions. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

RE: Starting with struts again

2006-01-17 Thread David Thielen
I looked at the list. Any comments on which do list the best way to use struts? (I have read books that list the worst way to do something so I don't trust something just because it's printed.) ??? - thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -Origin

Starting with struts again

2006-01-17 Thread David Thielen
ve Ps - free RTS game as a thank you to the development community - http://www.windwardreports.com/enemy_nations.htm David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

Where to download shale test mock objects

2005-10-01 Thread David Thielen
Hi; I went to http://struts.apache.org/shale/index.html#download And it said Icould download them at http://cvs.apache.org/builds/struts/nightly/struts-shale/test-framework/ But nothing there. ??? - thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544

RE: A nice easy question

2005-09-12 Thread David Thielen
I always use an int and carry everything in cents. 100% accurate and efficient. - dave -Original Message- From: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 5:31 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: A nice easy question Murugesan, Kathiresan (Cognizan

RE: Who decides?

2005-09-10 Thread David Thielen
t will be replaced by something else. It's evolution at hyperspeed. - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:11 PM To: Struts Users Mailing Li

Cookie problem is killing me

2005-09-08 Thread David Thielen
omain unset (ie null), then it creates a cookie using the name of the servlet. If I set the domain - I have tried "localhost", ".localhost", "belle", and ".belle" (my computer's name is belle), then no cookie is saved. Any idea why?

What JSF is missing

2005-09-07 Thread David Thielen
For shale and/or the next version of JSF. http://thielen.typepad.com/programming/2005/08/what_jsf_is_mis.html thanks - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com <http://www.windwardreports.com/>

Asking again: Need advice - 3rd party cookie

2005-09-06 Thread David Thielen
Hi; I need some advice on how to implement something. I have two websites, windwardreports.com and windward.net. When someone comes to windwardreports.com, I need to save a cookie in windward.net. This cookie is then used on windward.net to identify them as the same person on windwardreports.com.

Need advice - 3rd party cookie

2005-09-03 Thread David Thielen
hat implements this? It strikes me as being easy but there is no point in reinventing the wheel. Thanks - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com <http://www.windwardreports.com/>

How do I use a form bean?

2005-08-25 Thread David Thielen
Just kidding :) -Original Message- From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:47 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Shale/JSF/Java posts ... If you don't like the Shale "noise", imagine how I feel after five years of the same questions

sort-of off topic: How to do a 3rd party cookie

2005-08-21 Thread David Thielen
Hi; I have 2 domains. I need to get a cookie from domain A to domain B. Is the best way to do this to have a http://www.domainb.com/servlet&cookie=value&cook ie=value - And if so: 1. Anyone have some sample servlet code for this so I don't have to re-invent the wheel? 2. Is ther

sort-of offtopic: gif keeps running when refresh/forward

2005-08-21 Thread David Thielen
Hi; When I go to process a credit card I first forward to a page that has an animated gif on it. The page then does a refresh to the page that processes the card & displays the results. I want the enimated gif to keep running while the request is pending for the new page - but as soon as the ref

[shale] - suggestion for shale

2005-08-14 Thread David Thielen
oing to be rendered, it first calls this method which can then redirect. This is very useful for both security checks (essential actually) and to make sure someone does not save a url that is 4 pages through a page by page step and then goes back to that url. Thanks - dave David Th

RE: FO orJasper Reports

2005-08-08 Thread David Thielen
www.windwardreports.com is your best bet. Thanks - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- From: d d [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:58 AM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: XSL:FO orJasper Reports   I am generating

Deleting all beans

2005-08-05 Thread David Thielen
Hi; When a user logs out I would like to delete all beans that JSF created and attached to the session. And I would like to end the session too if possible. Is there a way to do this. Preferably without having to know the names of the beans as that requires we not miss one. Thanks - dave

What is the recomended framework

2005-08-05 Thread David Thielen
Hi; This whole struts/shale/jsf/spring/kitchen sink discussion has brought up a fundamental question. What should we use, assuming new code to keep it simple. So, what should we be using on the presentation and persistence side? JSF and Hibernate seem to be a yes from everyone. But what ab

RE: [OT] What to choose: Struts, JSF, Shale or Spring

2005-08-05 Thread David Thielen
table. And same question on Spring? Thanks - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 10:03 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] What to choose: Struts, JSF, Sha

RE: [OT] What to choose: Struts, JSF, Shale or Spring

2005-08-05 Thread David Thielen
Hi; I'm still a newbie to JSF so take this with a grain of salt. JSF is a lot like the Mac - you have to do things it's way but if you can fit within it's paradigm, it works very very well. - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- F

RE: Showing a PDF inside a JSP

2005-08-03 Thread David Thielen
This may help. http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/general/webapp/ thanks - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 9:49 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject

RE: [OT] Re: City Info

2005-08-03 Thread David Thielen
I'd worry about someone who doesn't know where Hungary is even without looking it up... David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- From: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:24 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Su

RE: [shale] shale test framework

2005-08-02 Thread David Thielen
Hi; Since everyone is being so nice about this, even though it's not a shale problem, I figured I'd ask here. In my hibernate setup, I have a HibernateUtil class with some static initialization code. That code sets a static final variable with my SessionFactory. This is a great way to d

RE: [shale] shale test framework

2005-08-02 Thread David Thielen
I figure a mock world always has limitations - but better a workable return than an exception. Thanks - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 4:40 PM To: Struts Users

RE: [shale] shale test framework

2005-08-02 Thread David Thielen
ath).getAbsolutePath(); } } David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- From: David Thielen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 3:21 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: [shale] shale test framework Hi; For those that hit th

[shale] shale test framework

2005-08-02 Thread David Thielen
Hi; For those that hit the same problem - you need to call super.setUp() and super.tearDown() in your setUp/tearDown. Also, servletContext.getRealPath() is not implemented in the mock objects. Is there a reason why it doesn't return the default directory? Finally, I need to determine at

RE: Shale question - is this the list?

2005-08-02 Thread David Thielen
Hi; Thank you - both for the answer and the ton of great code you've given to the world. - dave David Thielen 303-499-2544 www.windwardreports.com -Original Message- From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:44 AM To: Struts Users Ma

Shale question - is this the list?

2005-08-02 Thread David Thielen
Hi; Is this the right list for shale questions? If so I have three questions - both having to do with using the test framework for my JSF code: 1. I create a class TestDemo extends AbstractJsfTestCase. In my setUp method I want to use servletContext but all of the mock objects are set

RE: How do I get Chinese & Arabic to/from struts

2004-10-12 Thread David Thielen
aracterEncodingFilter encoding UTF-8 ignore true SetCharacterEncodingFilter /* == David Thielen wrote: > Hi; > > > > I have spent seve

How do I get Chinese & Arabic to/from struts

2004-10-11 Thread David Thielen
Hi; I have spent several hours googling on this and all the articles point to http://www.anassina.com/struts/i18n/i18n.html which apparently no longer exists. All of my jsp pages are set to be utf-8 using "". All of my input and text I do using html-el. When I get the text from an input