Re: Localization and Dates

2009-10-01 Thread Robin Mannering
time portion to zero (Hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds). For the the endDate you would add one day to the calendar. You range expression then gives you the 24 hour period that is considered "Dec 20, 2009" for a user in that timezone. Hope that helps. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:18 AM

Localization and Dates

2009-09-30 Thread Robin Mannering
Hello, Can anyone give me some 'best practice' advice for dealing with dates in an international app (Struts2). We are based in the UK and have an application running locally that stores dates within action classes as java.util.Date. These dates are sometimes passed to the application via query

Field-Validator and BigDecimal

2009-09-17 Thread Robin Mannering
Hello all, I have a rather strange validation problem. I have a field agencyCommRate declared as a BigDecimal. I need to validate that a value between 0.0 and 100.0 is entered and assumed the following validation rules would work. Values outside the range are picked up correctly. However, w

Re: URL Mappings

2009-08-16 Thread Robin Mannering
Thanks for all the feedback on this post! Having seen the post from Martin regarding I've now also seen the equivalent declaration in struts.properties : struts.action.extension=action But most probably know that I guess. Thanks also for the heads up on the deprecated org.apache.struts2.di

URL Mappings

2009-08-15 Thread Robin Mannering
Please excuse if this question has been answered before. I can't find any direct reference to it. How would I configure Struts2 to treat .htm requests in the same way as .action requests. I freely admit I do not understand how org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher identifies betwee

Internationalization and SEO

2009-08-11 Thread Robin Mannering
Hello, I have a question relating to serving international content that I hope someone can help with. It is kind of leaning towards an SEO question, but it does relate to Struts in terms of how I can use Struts 2 to control page direction because of language selection. In terms of SEO, I a

Re: EJB Injection in Interceptor

2009-07-31 Thread Robin Mannering
Wow! Thanks for all this great feedback and ideas regards this problem. I'm sorry I cannot add any useful prompts to help you develop a plugin Wes as Spring and it's methods for injection are something I know nothing about. I have to admit, injection is not something I fully understand and a

Re: EJB Injection in Interceptor

2009-07-29 Thread Robin Mannering
thoughts on this subject. Robin Mannering wrote: Just wondering if the below thread has gone any further. After creating another thread on the same subject at an earlier date, we discussed using the EJB plugin here: http://cwiki.apache.org/S2PLUGINS/ejb3-plugin.html However, having started to use

Re: EJB Injection in Interceptor

2009-07-27 Thread Robin Mannering
Just wondering if the below thread has gone any further. After creating another thread on the same subject at an earlier date, we discussed using the EJB plugin here: http://cwiki.apache.org/S2PLUGINS/ejb3-plugin.html However, having started to use this plugin so that I can reference statele

Re: Login with Struts2

2009-07-16 Thread Robin Mannering
Hi, I recently implemented a login mechanism but did it slightly differently after recommendations from this mailing list to use an interceptor. Each action/page that requires a validated login is directed via a Interceptor. The sole purpose of the interceptor is to verify the existence of

Freemarker and Select Tag

2009-07-16 Thread Robin Mannering
Hello, Platform : Struts 2, EJB 3.0, Glassfish 2.1 I'm having trouble using the Freemarker equivalent of the JSP Struts 2 Select Tag. I need to convert: into the Freemarker equivalent. userTypes is an application defined attribute. I have checked the existence of the attribute within th

Re: Struts2 Action Class and EJB Injection

2009-07-15 Thread Robin Mannering
Thanks for the example. I shall download the source and give it a go. Thanks again. Nathan Schulte wrote: Robin Mannering mtndesigns.co.uk> writes: Can you please tell me how you obtained the EJB plugin and a short example of using it. I would prefer to use this if possi

Re: Struts2 Action Class and EJB Injection

2009-07-15 Thread Robin Mannering
Can you please tell me how you obtained the EJB plugin and a short example of using it. I would prefer to use this if possible. Nathan Schulte wrote: Robin Mannering wrote: Is there anybody that is using Struts2 as the 'frontend' to an EJB 3 'backend' and what solut

Re: Struts2 Action Class and EJB Injection

2009-07-15 Thread Robin Mannering
ally create a plugin that removes the need to do that in your execute method. The EJB spec added those annotations, so I'd like to figure out a way to honor them (cleanly). -Wes On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Robin Mannering wrote: Hi Wes, I found a resource on the web that

Re: Struts2 Action Class and EJB Injection

2009-07-15 Thread Robin Mannering
in the plugin. If you have troubles, bring them to the list, we'll help. 2. Create an object factory implementation that creates actions using your container's semantics. Again, if you have troubles, bring 'em back here, we'll help you. -Wes On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:48 AM, R

Re: Struts2 Action Class and EJB Injection

2009-07-15 Thread Robin Mannering
we see much traffic on here from ejb users. Would anyone else be interested in an ObjectFactory based plugin? If so, would any of you also want it to work with Spring? The interceptor-based solution works good because it doesn't interfere with object-creation-based plugins like spring/guice/etc.

Struts2 Action Class and EJB Injection

2009-07-15 Thread Robin Mannering
Hello, Platform : Struts 2, EJB 3.0, Glassfish 2.1 I wish to obtain a reference to an EJB using injection. This works fine within a servlet, but from within a Struts2 action class, all references to injected EJB variables hold a 'null' reference. I've included a portion of my action class be

Interceptor Use

2009-06-27 Thread Robin Mannering
Hello, Struts 2.1.6 I wish to ensure a user is logged into an application before allowing him/her to execute certain tasks. Would using an Interceptor be a good way to go? My idea is to retrieve session data in the intercept() method of the interceptor and verify a certain attribute is held

Re: Struts 2 and Velocity

2009-06-27 Thread Robin Mannering
ag support, but it may be similar to Freemarker in that some tags are in-line tags, some are block tags, and decisions were made at some point to try and cover the most common use-case. If that's the case then you'll probably have to loop over the field names of interest. Dave Robin

Re: Struts 2 and Velocity

2009-06-27 Thread Robin Mannering
I'm having trouble translating into Velocity. Any other ideas? Dave Newton wrote: Robin Mannering wrote: From the documentation at http://struts.apache.org/2.1.6/docs/velocity-tags.html, I see the format is: #s**tag **(...) ... #end However, I'm having difficult using the tags.

Struts 2 and Velocity

2009-06-27 Thread Robin Mannering
Hi all I've recently switched from Struts 1.x to Struts 2.1.6 and would like to continue using velocity to render the view. I also wish to take advantage of the Struts 2 tag library by using velocity directly. From the documentation at http://struts.apache.org/2.1.6/docs/velocity-tags.html

Re: ActionServlet failing to load

2005-07-17 Thread Robin Mannering
6, unless I'm missing something, it's just using the default constructor, so I very much doubt its a construction problem. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Sun, July 17, 2005 12:02 pm, Robin Mannering said: > Sure

Re: ActionServlet failing to load

2005-07-17 Thread Robin Mannering
he 'root cause' can we see the contents of your web.xml index.jsp struts-config.xml M- - Original Message - From: "Robin Mannering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:55 AM Subject: ActionServlet failing to load Hi all, I'm having a bizarr

ActionServlet failing to load

2005-07-17 Thread Robin Mannering
Hi all, I'm having a bizarre problem upon application startup where the ActionServlet is failing to load. This only happens on our deployment server, and the ActionServlet loads normally whilst on our dev machine. Does anyone have on ideas on the below error? I'd be very grateful for any

RE: Bean Constants and JSP EL

2004-10-20 Thread Robin Mannering
heaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=109636066026332&w=2 > -Original Message----- > From: Robin Mannering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 3:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bean Constants and JSP EL > > > Hi, > > Wonder

Bean Constants and JSP EL

2004-10-20 Thread Robin Mannering
Hi, Wondering if anyone has encountered this before and perhaps a solution :) I have constants defined in a regular Java bean class. ie. public static final String STATUS_DRAFT = "draft"; The bean has request scope in the page, no problem there, but I can't reference this constant value u

RE: Tracing action dispatching

2004-10-06 Thread Robin Mannering
Sorry, Missed a bit on my cut and paste, Last line og log4j.properties should have read: log4j.appender.file2.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd-MMM HH:mm:ss} %-5p %t%x [%C{1}.%M] %m%n -Original Message- From: Robin Mannering Sent: 06 October 2004 15:44 To: 'Struts Users Mailing

RE: Tracing action dispatching

2004-10-06 Thread Robin Mannering
Hi Laurent, I use log4j and the following log4j.properties file to achieve this. It gets the framework logging to one file (ie. struts) and my application logging to another file Can change the levels for each as desired as Struts put out a hefty chunk at debug level... but very useful...

RE: input form

2004-10-05 Thread Robin Mannering
"); } -----Original Message- From: Robin Mannering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 October 2004 17:55 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: input form Hi All, Just chewing over this problem myself since it was brought up. The solution is here I believe, yet to implem

RE: input form

2004-10-05 Thread Robin Mannering
Hi All, Just chewing over this problem myself since it was brought up. The solution is here I believe, yet to implement it but I'm sure it'll work. http://struts.apache.org/faqs/newbie.html#prepopulate Hope this helps, not sure if it repeats what has been said already. Robin -Original M

RE: good book about struts

2004-10-05 Thread Robin Mannering
Hi, Can't say which is best as I have only read Struts in Action: Ted Husted. I find it invaluable as a reference and very easy to read ! I recommend it. Nice extra chapters too, especially the chapter on replacing JSPs with Velocity templates Robin -Original Message- From: Ye, Y

RE: ActionError and JSP display

2004-10-05 Thread Robin Mannering
t: RE: ActionError and JSP display At 1:45 PM +0100 10/5/04, Robin Mannering wrote: >Hi, > > >I was intending to use , >specifying the property for display, but it still doesn't allow me >to test for it's existence. > > >What I'd like to do is test if an er

RE: ActionError and JSP display

2004-10-05 Thread Robin Mannering
t to create the HTML table row and cell at all. Is there a way to do this ? Thanks Robin -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Beal Sent: 05 October 2004 13:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ActionError and JSP display Robin Mannering wrote: > H

ActionError and JSP display

2004-10-05 Thread Robin Mannering
Hi, Platorm is : Tomcat 5, Struts 1.1 Context: HTML Form submissions and validation. I'm trying to conditionally test for the existince of error messages by their keys. And I'd then like to show the error with HTML formatting around it. Basically, using tags, I'd like to do the same as the fol

causing internal html and anchoring to fail.

2004-09-02 Thread Robin Mannering
recognises the internal HTML links in association with the HTML page name - myPage.jsp (due to the use of the element). Is there a way round this, other than removing the from the doc as this is not an option? Robin Mannering Java Web Developer - Legal & Finance Tel:01491 418957