RE: Shale <--> Struts 1.n

Shameless self-promotion coming up... > So building a Struts Application for the Enterprise is fine, but...what > if you need to expose some Action such that another system can act on > it and interoperate with it. It doesn?t have to be a fully functionally > Axis/SOAP interface or have a UDDI d

Re: general Thread disscussion

On Tue, February 1, 2005 2:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Thank you for your detailed reply. Its really helpfull but i had two > questions: I try :) >>... and it may even be forbidden by J2EE, but... doing it is OK if you >> are careful a > > I had a look in the J2EE-Specification but i can't

Re: read local file in ActionStruts

Hmm... Could be a cache issue, although that seems kind of unlikely. Try removing the two cache lines in showPDF.jsp and see what happens. Is there any chance the file isn't being close after being written, or something along those lines? I would also use something like HTTPWatch and see what

Re: general Thread disscussion

These seems to come up a lot, I've personally been involved in this discussion a number of times over the past two months. Someone should probably write a Wiki entry somewhere (assuming one doesn't exist already). The discussion generally it seems comes to this conclusion: We've all heard that

Re: read local file in ActionStruts

n Tue, February 1, 2005 11:56 am, Derek Broughton said: > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:46, you wrote: >> I do something like this in one app... > > Frank, fzlists and Frank Zametti are stuttering again... > -- > derek > ---

Re: Capturing input as html under the scenes

Alternatively, if you can live with an IE-only solution, you might consider the contenteditable attribute of a tag. This does as it's name implies: allows a user to edit the contents of the div, but more importantly, getting the value of it results in HTML. You can actually create a whole ric

Re: Capturing input as html under the scenes

Re: Capturing input as html under the scenes Alternatively, if you can live with an IE-only solution, you might consider the contenteditable attribute of a tag. This does as it's name implies: allows a user to edit the contents of the div, but more importantly, getting the value of it results

Re: read local file in ActionStruts

I do something like this in one app... I'm creating PDFs on-the-fly and then displaying them on the browser. I have a directory named temp under my webapp that the PDFs get written to. The files are named according the the user ID. You have the Action writing out the file already... if we as

Re: Capturing input as html under the scenes

Re: Capturing input as html under the scenes Alternatively, if you can live with an IE-only solution, you might consider the contenteditable attribute of a tag. This does as it's name implies: allows a user to edit the contents of the div, but more importantly, getting the value of it results

Re: read local file in ActionStruts

Re: read local file in ActionStruts I do something like this in one app... I'm creating PDFs on-the-fly and then displaying them on the browser. I have a directory named temp under my webapp that the PDFs get written to. The files are named according the the user ID. You have the Action wri

Re: Why is JCL thread-safe in an Action?

Makes sense, thanks. Somewhere along the line I got it in my head that all static vars are bad. It makes sense that they wouldn't be, I guess I just got it in my head that they are always bad and never really questioned why. If nothing else, that quote you references says it all quite clearly.

Why is JCL thread-safe in an Action?

Today I find myself converting an existing webapp from using Log4J directly to using JCL instead. As per the JCL User's Guide, I'm creating a private static Log variable in all my classes, Struts Actions included. My question is, why is this OK? Static variables in Actions are a Bad Thing, th

Re: PlugIn and the base URL

While I absolutely acknowledge the cleverness of this solution, it's not one I would personally employ. Making a server application dependent on another server for startup configuration strikes me as quite a hack (albeit a clever one!) > It in fact does make sense to assume that a web service

Re: [OT] a java question

The only thing with that is if you might need to change those constants while the application is running, you won't be able to this way. Of course, you could argue they aren't constants then, and i'd tend to agree! :) For instance, in one application I wrote, I read in an application configura

Re: How to Forward out of struts to a URL from an Action

Configure an Action Mapping like so: http://www.omnytex.com"; redirect="true" /> That's all. If you need it to be a little more dynamic, like I notice you said it was on the same server, if it might be moved from server to server, than get a reference to the forward above in your Action,

Re: Popup window submitting to action

reload()... cool, didn't see that in my reference book. Everyone learns something new every day! :) (sure seemed like something that would be there, glad to know I just missed it) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Thu, Jan

Re: Popup window submitting to action

Well, you could either (a) create a form with an action of billpay.do and submit it, or (b) you could do parent.location="billpay.do". That should essentially do a refresh. I'm not aware of any refresh method, unless you are OK with IE-only code... IE has a number of "commands", as they are ca

Re: Popup window submitting to action

Assume you have a form in the parent window that does your refresh, whether it's visible to the user or not (i.e., has nothing but hidden fields). Simply do: parent.theForm.submit(); For that line you weren't sure about. Should do the trick. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Ar

Re: Popup window submitting to action

There's probably a couple of ways to do this, here's one... I think you can handle the submitting on the popup and closing the window no problem, but before you do the close, call a Javascript function in the parent of the popup that will submit a form to do the refresh of the main page. That'

RE: Action naming conventions and URL accuracy

One possible solution to this "page X processes page X and then sets up page Y" situation is to (a) have an Action that logically branches based on the URL and (b) treat one Action as a delegate of another. For instance, let's say I have Action Mappings PageXSetup, PageXPRocess, PageYSetup, Pag

Re: [OT] a java question

Are you saying that some other initialization class will call your setter to initialize it? And you only want that class to be able to call it? If so, there's no standard way to do it, but... you could pass in an instance of Class to the setter, and check that it's only your initializer class.

RE: PlugIn and the base URL

Well, I guess I made an assumption here... I assumed you would have enough information to construct a URL using localhost as the server name. I guess that's not a safe assumption in this case. So let me understand this scenario further... you are sending a WAR out to a client, right? When the

Re: [OT] a java question

You want a private variable and a public static accessor/mutator pair: public class test { private static int var; public static void setVar(int i) { var = i; } public static int getVar() { return var; } } -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Te

RE: PlugIn and the base URL

I would personally couple this with the thread idea I mentioned earlier... Spawn a thread to send through a request after a few seconds to check baseURL or set it as appropriate. That would remove the user interaction aspect, and probably would get everything set up quicker, at least in a known

Re: PlugIn and the base URL

Alternatively, you could create a batch file (or shell script for *nix systems) that updates the WAR with a config file that contains nothing but the URL (maybe just a .properties file in WEB-INF, nothing more). The plugin could use that. Then you ship the batch/script file, WAR and config fil

RE: PlugIn and the base URL

Just thinking out loud here, but... What if from your plug-in you spawn a thread that will: (1) Wait a few second, to allow the app to otherwise initialize completely (2) Make a request to a special Action that will do the rest of the initialization that requires the URL (should be able to do h

Re: How to get the input action path?

I thought of something similar too Jim, but my thought was that now they are coding classes that don't truly adere to the general form of an Action. I would rather have the basic structure remain the same and just make them have to remember to call the setup code. Think of it this way... the m

Re: How to get the input action path?

On Mon, January 24, 2005 12:37 pm, Gianpiero Caretti said: > FYI, that's exactly what I am doing rigth now! Great minds think alike :) > The only think I don't like with this solution is that the JSP writer has > to > know the existence of the "command" attribute into request. Moreover if > the

Re: How to get the input action path?

Good news! :) FYI, all of my Actions call a common setup function at the start of execute(), and one of the things it does is set an attribute "command" in the request with the value of getPath() called on the ActionMapping. I use that in JSPs sometimes as you are doing, but I didn't want to w

Re: How to get the input action path?

There will be a request attribute under the name "org.apache.struts.action.mapping.instance". Call getPath() on that (after casting to an ActionMapping). I'd take a look around to see if there's a static method somewhere that gets this for you rather than coding the name of the attribute becau

Re: Simple way to 'configure' an action?

Another possible approach is to create a DefaultValues class, something along these lines: public class DefaultValues { private HashMap defaultValues; { setDefaultValues(); } public static HashMap getDefaultValues() { return defaultValues; } private static void setDefaultValue

Re: R: Session Strategy (here's a filter)

If your looking for something to run WHEN a session expires, the better choice is probably a SessionListener. I'm not clear on if that's what you really want though. Assuming it is, here's an example from one of my apps... this basically updates a list of active users in a static member of a c

Re: R: Session Strategy (here's a filter)

Jack, I think any of the example filters posted should be good templates for what you want... The question is, how would you detect an expired session now? You'd do the same in the filter. Ymight do something like this: (1) When the user logs on, that is, when you have validated them through

Re: open new window form struts action

Geez, I wish I'd have known that before! So are you saying that if the browser doesn't recognize the target as one of the predefined types, it will assume it should open a new window named according to the target value? That's cool, and I didn't know it. It would have saved me some trouble a

Re: open new window form struts action

For my own edification, can you expand on the ability to "...define whatever target you like"? I've never heard that before, I'd be interested to know more. I'm wondering specifically since the browser wouldn't know what anything other than the defined targets you referenced meant, how would y

Re: NullPointerException, how to determine cause?

The two lines I think you want to validate first are: String sqlQuery = ((ExecuteQueryForm) form).getSQLQuery(); and session.setAttribute("query",form); Since they are not within your catch, they could cause problems. If your form is null, as someone else said, you'd be in trouble. Also, i

Re: open new window form struts action

This should probably be an answer on the Wiki since I see this asked quite a bit... No, you cannot open a new window from an Action. Not directly anyway. Opening a window is strictly a client-side activity. Therefore, you have two choices: (1) Submit a form to _blank, as you said (actually,

Re: ActionForm and Custom Tag

On Tue, January 18, 2005 1:56 pm, Peter Wu said: >> With Struts, there is no separation of page prep and control events. In >> other words, if you want to submit to the server to update your >> calendar, >> you will be responsible for rendering the rest of the page, including >> any input the use

Re: ActionForm and Custom Tag

Sure, I understand completely now. You aren't doing anything unusual at all :) I think because you came from an ASP.Net background, you have some expectations that don't apply with Struts (I too came from an MS background, although before .Net appeared, so I've fought the "why doesn't it work T

Re: Java IDE's

You'll have to pry UltraEdit and batch files from my cold, dead hands before I use any IDE :) Ok, I'm not really quite THAT extreme. :) But it has been my experience that no IDE adds anything big enough to deal with the little annoyances that they all seem to have (most of them seem to have the

RE: JSP bean

On Fri, January 7, 2005 4:11 pm, Jim Barrows said: > I've never found it onerous. Java works with directory structures. > Eclipse uses the same directory strucutre that Java would require, and > makes it extraordinarily easy to refactor your code if you want to. > I'm not sure what you mean by p

RE: JSP bean

You know, my experience with "Eclipse" has been WSAD, which I've been far less than impressed with. Maybe I should try plain Eclipse, especially hearing how all you guys are always singing it's praises. I'm not sure it would be any better for me personally, but it could be. Worth some time th

RE: JSP bean

Eh, you guys and your fancy IDE's :) I'm a "by-hand" guy, gimme UltraEdit and a command line and I'm happy (and more productive than most of the guys here using WSAD frankly), but I have to admit, plug-ins like that make it tougher to stay that course! -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief So

Re: JSP bean

I always include the following method in all my ActionForms... I'm sure you can do the same in whatever bean you have, or adapt it to be able to pass the bean to it if you can't modify the bean itself... This will actually show you all fields AND their values, but you can of course hack it as yo

Re: Does not STRUTS handle escape characters

To the best of my knowledge, struts does NOT handle this. I have faced this issue, as I'm sure many have. Here's the code I use to solve it... This is simply a static method of a Helpers class I reuse throughout most of my projects... I don't for a second claim it is the best answer, but it do

Re: Does not STRUTS handle escape characters

Wasn't sure this posted the first time, apologies if this winds up a double-post... To the best of my knowledge, struts does NOT handle this. I have faced this issue, as I'm sure many have. Here's the code I use to solve it... This is simply a static method of a Helpers class I reuse througho

Re: [STRUTS] Another n00b Q - Selecting from dropdown & show view

Depends... Do you want this all to happen on the client only, or do you want a round-trip to the server? If client-only, just wrap the optional elements in a tag, then use the onChange event of the element to show the appropriate group (you'll need to hide eerything else of course... I usuall

Re: How to pass a request variable to a frame set

There's no way to do it that is Struts-specific, uhh, unless I'm wrong :) You have to think about what is happening on the browser when PlanAction.java completes and fowards... The response is returned to the browser, Offerings.jsp. This page loads content, Plan.jsp. So, as far as the browser

RE: Accessing my form from an included page

On Thu, December 23, 2004 9:49 am, Paul McCulloch said: > Frank, > > Although your solution would work I'd be apprehensive about any solution > which involves doing anything manually at the start of each action. I'd > suggest that anything that needs to happen for each & every action is > better >

Re: Accessing my form from an included page

> Lord, Frank --- no worries. One of the worst things is people who > take things too seriously and read jots and tiddles on these lists. > Relax with me. Sounds like therapy? LOL ;-) Therapy... I could use that :) > I did not mean that it was in the response object but accessed within > the

RE: Accessing my form from an included page

On Thu, December 23, 2004 9:36 am, Paul McCulloch said: > I didn't notice this in the thread - but I didn't read it in depth as it > was > pretty long. A long thread?? With Jack and I involved?!? Surely you jest... :) We're probably the two most verbose guys around these parts! > I see more r

RE: Accessing my form from an included page

On Thu, December 23, 2004 9:13 am, Donie Kelly said: > [Donie Kelly] Hi Guys > > OK, I ran through most of what your are telling me and must first thank > you > all for the detailed responses. You spawned an interesting thread! The seemingly simple questions are usually the ones that do that th

RE: Accessing my form from an included page

That's what one of my solutions was too, although I wasn't 100% sure the mapping instance was actually in request (I thought I remembered seeing it, but wasn't sure). The argument against doing that though is that the attribute name could conceivably be changed down the road, breaking your code

RE: non-HTML attributes

Another consideration is that, I believe, .htc's are IE-only. At least, I think that was the case when I built an app using them a year or two ago. Has that changed? If not, is being tied to IE an issue for you? I'd be interested to know if this is across-browser solution, just for my own kn

Re: bean:write filter question

Interesting... The latest O'Reilly Dynamic HTML book, which is usually exceptional in it's completeness and quality, doesn't seem to mention that. Maybe it's just not layed out how I would have expected and it's in another part of the book. In any case, thanks for the info, and for the gentle

Re: bean:write filter question

You DID put me on to one answer though... I can pass this.innerText, that works. I'd still like to know what the nodeValue was though, I've never seen that... -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Wed, December 22, 2004 3:25 p

Re: bean:write filter question

Hmm, gotta admit you lost me Jeff... is nodeValue a property of an anchor tag? I don't see it in my references... -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Wed, December 22, 2004 3:16 pm, Jeff Beal said: > How about: > > property

Re: bean:write filter question

That's indeed what I suspected, but I was hoping... -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Wed, December 22, 2004 3:14 pm, Jeff Beal said: > The filtering in probably only escapes characters that > have significance in HTML, not

bean:write filter question

Hello all... I have a situation where I have to insert a path into a Javascript call, like so: ");"> Problem is, on Windows anyway, the path includes a backslash, so when rendered you get for example: A:\

Re: non-HTML attributes

Solution: Don't use the Struts tags. :) Seriously, people tend to forget (or don't know to begin with) that they are NOT required to use Struts. Alternatively, limit the input via Javascript as an onKeyDown event handler. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Techno

Re: Accessing my form from an included page

On Wed, December 22, 2004 1:56 pm, Dakota Jack said: > Plasma TV? Not a new copy of Java Today? LOL ;-) No self-respecting geek would choose the magazine! :) (self-respecting geek... talk about an oxymoron!) > The form has a name from the mapping. Whatever servlet, html, etc. > you have is g

Re: Accessing my form from an included page

Yes, if the enjoyment I cause my wo-workers was worth money, I'd be a rich man indeed. My wife would have her new car and I'd have my 60-inch plasma TV. Oh well, back to reality :( The way I read the original post is that he wanted to have some common code in header.jsp access the form associ

Re: Accessing my form from an included page

Since the form you'd need to retrieve is named depending on the main page content, you won't know that information in the header (not easily anyway). I mean, think of it this way... when your page is converted to a servlet, the header code is included in with the main page, and then the footer,

Re: I'm completely lost, please help...

I too only develop on XP, but one point I wanted to mention... I generally just put j2ee.jar in my classpath for build purposes. That gives you the equivalent of servlet-api.jar and jsp-api.jar, plus just about anything else you might need. There could concievably be version mismatch issues, b

Re: Actionform 's property

There is no direct conversion between Java and Javascript objects (I hear tell of some libraries to do this though...) What you'll need to do otherwise is iterate over the List and construct Javascript from it, something like this: test myArray = new Array(); <% int i = 0; for (Iterator it

Re: external properties

Is the path to the config file something you can hard-code? If so, how about simply a class with a static initializer block to read the config file, then expose the values through a static getConfig() method returning a static HashMap? That's about as simple, light-weight and environment-agnos

Re: Preview of an Image and text

You might consider doing it all on the client... test function preview() { lyrPreview.innerHTML = ""; lyrPreview.innerHTML += "Some message text...
"; lyrPreview.innerHTML += ""; } Select file, then click button to preview: Preview:

Re: Page navigation links

Presumably you would want such a construct to work regardless of what path a user took to get to a specific page (assuming there ARE multiple paths in your app, maybe there aren't). So, if it was me, I'd be thinking a linked list stored in session. Each page that is presented would append itse

Re: [OT - Friday]Corporate Stupidity

Well, certainly a dishonest company in any case is a bad thing. If there is a law on the book, as there is in my sector, that requires certain things of them, then there's not much you can complain about as far as the company goes, but complain all you want to your government representatives of

Re: Form submission and javascript

If I'm understanding your question properly, the easiest way is just to add the attribute target="_new" in your tag. I don't know how that translates to the Struts tag as I tend to not use Struts tags, but for a plain-jane tag, it should get the job done. I have heard that the target attrib

Re: Best practice question: Properties (ShoppingCart) per user

PLEASE do not take offense from what I am about to say. I do not mean to be anything but constructive and helpful... I am concerned that you are trying to build an example for those you will be teaching because I can see some fundamental misunderstandings, or gaps in your knowledge. I'd be wi

Re: Tiles or Frames or Both

On Tue, December 7, 2004 10:31 am, Derek Broughton said: > If you're going to do something that makes it worthwhile putting the JS in > the > frame, you probably should be using a script file - in which case it is > cached anyway and you get the same savings. What is caching it? The browser? In

Re: Where to store and how to retrieve Images for web app

I have faced this situation on a number of ocassions. Speaking as someone who has done it just about every which way, I offer this "best practice"... I suggest storing them on the file system OUTSIDE the webapp directory. I then suggest creating an action specifically for returning images. Al

RE: WAR based project layout vs Sun J2SE blueprint layout

I'm a big believer in simplicity. To that end, the way we work here at my behest, at least during development, is that applications are simply zipped up when they need to be moved somewhere and deployed in exploded form. All developers have Tomcat on their desktop, set up identically, so they

RE: Reset button does not clear JSP fields

I'm not sure how tricky it is in JavaScript... function doit(obj) { obj = obj.form; i = 0; while (obj.elements[i] != null) { if (obj.elements[i].type.toLowerCase() != "button") { obj.elements[i].value = ""; } i++; } } Attach this to the onClick event of a button in the f

Re; Zammetti download app

Argh, just realized my messages haven't been getting through to the list. Should be working now though Anyway... First, I don't think this got to anyone... Ken I think is right (I say I *think* he's right because I don't really remember writing that comment!). Reading it back now I suspect I

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Re: [OT] access Microsoft Access database from remote machine

Access is a file-based database, and really it's just a data file in the end, the driver is what services queries and such. So, as Lee said, you'll need something to service the requests in between your client (i.e., your application) and the .MDB file. A remote server process could do this a

RE: Session invalidation problem

That's a good point, I forgot that. I've added code to handle that situation. I know that wasn't it though based on the stack trace (the exception is thrown about 20 lines after the check we're talking about), but I can imagine this might have come up too, so it made sense to add. Thanks Bria

Session invalidation problem

Hello all. I'm cross-posting this to the Tomcat and Struts lists because I'm not sure where is more appropriate to post it. I have an application that is throwing the following sporadic, but thankfully infrequent, exceptions: stack trace: java.lang.illegalstateexception: setattribute: session

Re: patterns for preloading forms and page scope data

On Mon, November 1, 2004 3:26 pm, Gary S. Cuozzo said: >> The forward attribute of your action mappings can point to another >> action mapping. Would that do the trick for you? > I suppose it would. How would struts know which mapping I wanted to go > to in the case of validation errors? Would I

Re: patterns for preloading forms and page scope data

On Mon, November 1, 2004 2:14 pm, Gary S. Cuozzo said: > Is there a way to make struts forward back to an action (instead of just > the jsp page) when validation issues are detected? The forward attribute of your action mappings can point to another action mapping. Would that do the trick for yo

Re: In MVC is actionform considered a part of the view or the controller?

I think there's some disagreement because they kind of straddle the line. ActionForms can be simplistically thought of as Data Transfer Objects (DTO's) between the view and the controller. I say that's simplistic because of things like validation, which arguably makes them more than just DTO's,

Re: sending javascript objects to a servlet

That's a very interesting thought, one I can't say has ocurred to me before... I'm not aware of any existing code to do that, and if nothing exists I think it's ripe for being created. I wouldn't mind working on it myself! The idea of essentially being able to serialize a Javascript object and

Re: WebApp Startup

You'll probably want to write a Struts plug-in. There's not much to it... Add an entry to your struts-config.xml file, something like so: And then write a class along these lines: package com.company.app.plugins; public class AppInit implements PlugIn { public void init(ActionServlet servle

Re: [OT] Re: Request parameters not making it to Actions?

Thanks for the heads-up Ben! Most of my time is spent in IE though... I use HTTPWatch to do the same thing. The problem though is that I've never once been able to replicate this problem, so it wouldn't help me any. I suppose I could have all my users install HTTPWatch, but that wouldn't go o

Re: Request parameters not making it to Actions?

That's an interesting thought Craig... I actually was very much aware of that behavior, having been burnt in the past... A lot of my GUI design does in fact disable elements because it's hard to get disabled elements to look exactly like Windows elements do when disabled by just manipulating rea

Re: Request parameters not making it to Actions?

I should point out, before anyone calls me on it, that this is strictly an internal app that is IE-specific (as per the overlords of the company's orders). Therefore, there's no chance that user disabled scripting or anything, and indeed they wouldn't have been able to even log in if they had.

Request parameters not making it to Actions?

Hello all... I've got a strange situation that's been bugging me for a while. First, some quick background: I wrote an application about two years ago that was based on a proprietary framework that has now been converted to Struts. One of the things this proprietary framework was missing was

Re: Opinion needed on a Design issue

Here's a concrete example of why it's not a good idea... I had a Struts-based application that I was recently asked to expose (some functions of) as Web Services. Well, this started me down my whole Struts Web Service Enablment Project route, but the point is that because it had to be quick, qu

Re: For sorting columns on user side with records

Nothing exists in the taglibs or Struts itself to do this as far as I know, so you'll have to roll your own. I have done this in a number of applications, so I'll save you some time... I do not know how cross-browser this is, most of my work is IE-only (not using much IE-only functionality, but

Re: Migrate xsl into jsp/struts

I'm not sure I still have the code in my archives, I will look, but I actually had cause to tackle a problem just like this. We had an application written by a consultant that is now long gone. He did it in MS technologies, using XSLT to transform XML to HTML to generate the output to the brow

Re: AspectJ question

Bill, how is it that you write an entire message in surfer-speak, but then at the very end use a hood term like "word"?!? POSER! :) On Tue, October 19, 2004 12:54 pm, Bill Siggelkow said: > Duude, > > Like, man ... no question is stupid ... some of th

Re: Navigation and forms submit

Can you smiply have all the forms named the same thing (say, "theForm"), and then on your links, do: onClick="theForm.submit();" -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Thu, October 14, 2004 10:59 am, Karsten Krieg said: > Hi! >

RE: The get() Method in the ActionForm

The problem is that you are calling a method of the class itself, which can only be static, instead of calling a method of an INSTANCE of the class. For instance, do this: SelectRecipientsForm myForm = (SelectRecipientsForm)form; where form is the form object passed into your Action's execute

Re: [OT] Running one web application in another.

Well, if you do decide to go the frames rate, feel free to contact me directly (probably no need to keep this on the mailing list) with any questions you may have. I've done three large and rather complex apps, all frames-based, so I've probably dealt with whatever issues you may run in to. [

Re: [OT] Running one web application in another.

Frames probably would in fact be your "path of least resistance". Frames have, for some reason, gotten a very bad rap, probably because it's so easy to abuse them (or architect them poorly and have all sorts of trouble because of it). However, when used properly, I fail to see why anyone has a

Re: OT: Scheduling Actions

There might be some debate about this, but a daemon thread would be my suggestion. I know the rule about no spawning threads in a servlet container, but I've always thought that rule was a bit nebulous... Does it literally mean don't spwan any threads, or does it mean don't spawn any threads to

Re: How to handle multiploe unknown form fields

In fact it did help because it answered some question for me. I spent the last hour searching for the RIGHT answer... This looked like it, but for whatever reason it would never work for me when I tried to do the exact same thing in my own project. So, I went ahead and hacked together my own s

Re: How to handle multiploe unknown form fields

That will take care of the presentation side, true enough. But the problem I'm still trying to solve is how to deal with all the parameters when the form submission happens. For instance, let's say I dynamically construct names for each drop-down along the lines of "dropdown" where is

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