Re: [ot] eclipse vs. IDEA

2004-05-19 Thread Rick Reumann
Andy Engle wrote: I am wondering (for you Mac users out there) if IDEA is less of a resource hog than eclipse? I can't say concerning the Mac, but on both Windows and Linux IDEA has always seemed to perform better than Eclipse. (Surprising because I don't even think IDEA uses SWT.) I've used bo

Re: LookUpDispatchAction :does not contain handler parameter named ...

2004-05-26 Thread Rick Reumann
shankarr wrote: Hi! I am getting an exception which reads like this : *:does not contain handler parameter named empfieldsaction * I have the following jsp. Leads Custom Fields   I hate the LookupDispatchAction compared to the regular DispatchAction. I started out using it thinking it wou

Re: Dynamically sized form using dynavalidator

2004-05-26 Thread Rick Reumann
I haven't tested this and it's late.. but your form property is "cart" not item.. so if you are going to use JSTL (and not the nested tag which is actually easier) it would be something like... Using the nested tag it would be: Jim Kennedy wrote: Just to clarify som

Re: Dynamically sized form using dynavalidator

2004-05-26 Thread Rick Reumann
d the problem (but not necessarily the best thing in the world to do). Rick Reumann wrote: I haven't tested this and it's late.. but your form property is "cart" not item.. so if you are going to use JSTL (and not the nested tag which is actually easier) it would be something li

Re: Dynamically sized form using dynavalidator

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Jim Kennedy wrote: I figured this one out. Man, what a landmine. BTW, good suggestions from all of you. Here's what I did: In my struts config I named the form property "cart". See below type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm"> type="com.je.common.ShoppingCartItem[]"/>

Re: Newbie question: Are there any issues in having popup browser windows

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Adam Lipscombe wrote: Are there any issues to bear in mind when displaying sub-windows in a browser? One of our web developers wants to have several sub-windows launched from links on the main page. Is this OK in Struts? Ok for Struts fine. Ok from a usability perspective.. that depends:) -- Rick -

What was the name of this application? [was] Re: Are there any IDE's that understand Struts tags?

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Adam Lipscombe wrote: I am developing a J2EE server using Struts. The JSPs will be constructed by a web developer who is used to DreamWeaver. Actually there was a struts application/IDE that was for demo that was quite impressive but now I forgot the name. It wasn't one of the ones mentioned so

Re: Tag

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Brian Boyle wrote: I am trying to populate a drop down list with values that I have in a Collection but it is not working. This is what I have so far in my JSP: I have a Collection called constituencies stored in my session and it has javaBeans as elements in it. THese javabeans have a getCons

Re: standard tags vs. struts specific tags

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Barnett, Brian W. wrote: Does this mean I should use jstl from Sun or are the standard tags (c, fmt, sql, etc) that come with struts 1.1 just fine? Sun's site makes it very annoying. I don't know why they don't provide a link to the JSTL tags directly. You can get the JSTL tags here: http://jaka

Re: standard tags vs. struts specific tags

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Slattery, Tim - BLS wrote: But that wasn't OP's question. He wanted to know if there was an advantage to using the JSTL libraries on Sun's site over the JSTL libraries that come in the Struts download. AFAIK, there is not. Guess I've been out of it.. I didn't realize Struts is now including the JS

Re: standard tags vs. struts specific tags

2004-05-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Nathan Maves wrote: Why don't you use the Yea, I could and probably should. For the html:messages though was what I should have refered to. That's a bit easier to use than a c:forEach loop. -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA

Re: What was the name of this application? [was] Re: Are there any IDE's that understand Struts tags?

2004-05-28 Thread Rick Reumann
bOOyah wrote: Actually there was a struts application/IDE that was for demo that was quite impressive but now I forgot the name. Was it NitroX from M7? http://www.m7.com/ Yes! That was the one thanks. That's the only one that I've found that will actually complete the difficult/annoying part

Re: Problems with Opera and Struts?

2004-05-28 Thread Rick Reumann
Michael McGrady wrote: I have no difficulty running my site with Netscape or IE but Opera fails. Can you provide any more information? I highly doubt this is an Opera problem. I use Opera every day for my development and haven't run into a single "J2EE" problem ( javascript/DHTML/css challenge

Re: Problems with Opera, Struts and Session Management?

2004-05-28 Thread Rick Reumann
Michael McGrady wrote: I probably should have added that in my ForwardAction I convert a path from the ActionMapping so that users can be allocated a particular look and feel that they have chosen on the website. The line that is related to the Opera failure is: return new ActionForward(la

Re: Problems with Opera, Struts and Session Management?

2004-05-28 Thread Rick Reumann
Michael McGrady wrote: No, this is not correct, Rick. The null pointer is for the reference to the Layout object in the session, which in fact is there. When I have the index page check to see if the object is there, Opera does not have a problem on OTHER pages. Odd? It is as if the placemen

Re: Problems with Opera and Struts?

2004-05-28 Thread Rick Reumann
Michael McGrady wrote: java.lang.NullPointerException com.crackwillow.struts.action.ForwardAction.execute(ForwardAction.java:30) Are you doing something funky in this custom Action? Why did you need to create your own ForwardAction? -- Rick

Re: is OJB a good choice for Modeling ?

2004-05-28 Thread Rick Reumann
Navjot Singh wrote: IMO, ibatis +1 +1 from me also. -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple submit buttons in the same form

2004-05-29 Thread Rick Reumann
Riyad Kalla wrote: 1) Yes you can do it 2) Given each button a different value, like "List Products" and "List All Products" 3) Add a "buttonValue" (or some other adequetly names) property to your form for the respective action, it will capture the button clicked. 4) In your action: if(form.getB

Re: Page pre-processing - reply

2004-05-29 Thread Rick Reumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anybody had already thought about an additional parameter linked to a struts-forward allowing page pre-processing. This parameter could point to a new kind of model action that will complete the model with information needed by the view any time the forwa

[OT] Why do you keep torturing me shaikh.sohrab!

2004-05-30 Thread Rick Reumann
"Why do you keep torturing me shaikh.sohrab of rave-tech dot com!" -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Use SiteMesh instead of Tiles

2004-05-30 Thread Rick Reumann
I've used Tiles for a long time and just recently switched to using SiteMesh. For those of you thinking, "Oh man, one more new thing to worry about it- Tiles works for me, forget it," trust me, SiteMesh is simple. MUCCH easier to set up and use than Tiles. The biggest advantage I've fou

Re: What was the name of this application? [was] Re: Are there any IDE's that understand Struts tags?

2004-05-31 Thread Rick Reumann
Axel Stahlhut wrote: Was it NitroX from M7? http://www.m7.com/ Thanks, I might check it out. IntelliJ Idea supports this, too. And for about one year now already. Those guys are really smart... What does IntelliJ support? I used IDEA, and it has no knowledge of being able to complete property

Re: Problem with Dynamic text boxes

2004-06-01 Thread Rick Reumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have to display a screen in which the no of rows are dynamic. in each row there are 2 text boxes where user can enter values. after entering the values in the text boxes user press 'SAVE' button . in the Action form i have to validate the values in the validate()

Re: Struts Tag Library

2004-06-01 Thread Rick Reumann
Srinivasa Jagannadh Gade wrote: I've a question with Tag Library. Can we use only the Struts Tag Library without using Struts Framework as a whole(Controller ,Action,Form etc). It does you no good to use the Struts tags without using tags. The ones you need from Struts are used in conjunction wit

Re: Struts Tag Library

2004-06-01 Thread Rick Reumann
Rick Reumann wrote: It does you no good to use the Struts tags without using tags. he he meant '..without using the "Struts framework" of course:) -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additio

Re: sitemesh include problem

2004-06-09 Thread Rick Reumann
Marco Rossi wrote: I try to use sitemesh instead of tiles; in my “decorator” template page I need to include a struts action. I try to do this: , but I catch the following java.lang.IllegalStateException: Response has already been committed Any suggestion? I think they just created a work around

Re: [OT] thick client functionality in the browser

2004-06-09 Thread Rick Reumann
Frank Zammetti wrote: You know what I discovered about a month ago? Instead of using iFrames, you can get the same functionality with a with style="overflow:scroll;". The problem with this, though, is when you when you want your table to be able to change in width. If you have a fixed width i

Re: logic:iterate beans and el

2004-06-09 Thread Rick Reumann
pls wrote: found out that in tomcat 4.1, el can ONLY be used inside of the jstl tags. downloading tomcat 5 right now.. Not sure what you mean by the above, but there are struts-el tags as well, which work with Tomcat4.x. -- Rick

Re: how to check if html:errors will display anything

2004-06-09 Thread Rick Reumann
James Neville wrote: Well, I was using this tag earlier in the week. (We've been trying to stay away from any Struts specific tags until recently too - we're locked in now anyway, so we might as well). Would this work for you with JSTL? You probably want to throw in a test for not empty also.

Re: HTML pages convert to Struts/JSP pages

2004-06-09 Thread Rick Reumann
Heligon Sandra wrote: I would like to shared basic HTML pages with an other web application which does not used Struts. Is it possible to convert HTM pages to Struts views automatically ? Is it an existing toolkit to do this ? Not sure what you mean by these question

Re: HTML pages convert to Struts/JSP pages

2004-06-09 Thread Rick Reumann
Heligon Sandra wrote: In my Struts application I use JSP pages with DynaValidatorForm effectively I used Struts tags html:form, html:radio, bean:message, logic:equal etc.. I would like to use basic html pages (created for an other web application) and convert them to Struts pages in order to have a

[OT] A first look at Spring vs Struts

2004-06-14 Thread Rick Reumann
Trust me this isn't an attempt to open up a whole flame war. I'm just curious how many of you have messed with Spring and what your thoughts concerning it are. I've been looking at it some and I do see some strengths it has, but some of those strengths I also see as potential weaknesses (maybe)

Re: Simple struts question.

2004-06-14 Thread Rick Reumann
Bullard, James wrote: A couple tiles questions. 1.) Is there any way to have a global-forward forward to a tile, It always tells me that such a path does not exist, meaning that rather than recognize the page as tile def it thinks it is a page. Hmm not sure what is wrong. You could try adding co

Re: [OT] A first look at Spring vs Struts

2004-06-14 Thread Rick Reumann
Martin Gainty wrote: funky things in Action execute methods ? please describe.. Well you can do almost anything in there since you're in a servlet, so you can totally break Struts concepts. You can do redirects (when you shouldn't) you could not use a Form bean to capture properties, you can do

Any volunteers to get 'Struttin With Struts' more up to date?

2004-06-18 Thread Rick Reumann
I don't have the time now to really get "Struttin' With Struts" http://www.reumann.net/do/struts/main more up to date. If anyone wants to help getting it up to date with more mondern ways of doing things, I'd appreciate it. You can contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Off-hand here are some things t

Re: Struts 1.0.2 Dynamic Forward

2004-06-18 Thread Rick Reumann
bmcgovern2004 wrote: I've successfully written a simple struts application. I have a jsp that presents a listbox for user selection. I have multiple action "flows" that may need to utilize the standard screen somewhere in the flow. Can you be a little more specific about what you want to accom

Re: where to call the DAO

2004-06-21 Thread Rick Reumann
javen fang wrote: In your Action where JSP comes from. In Action get the list from DAO, I usually throw in one more layer between the Action and the DAO. (Throw whatever groovy Design Pattern name you want at it.. delegate, facade, whatever.. I get them all confused :). Bottom line is I like

Re: Setting html:hidden property using JSTL

2004-06-23 Thread Rick Reumann
klute wrote: Hi All, I just started experimenting with jstl and i'd like to set a hidden field on MyActionForm using a value (contentId) available as an attribute on the request. Basically, i'd like to do something like this: "/> Which does not work. Should i be using EL syntax instead? And wh

Re: Setting html:hidden property using JSTL

2004-06-23 Thread Rick Reumann
klute wrote: This are the tagligs i am importing on this page: <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html-el.tld" prefix="html-el" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"; pref

Re: Setting html:hidden property using JSTL

2004-06-23 Thread Rick Reumann
klute wrote: Yes, the struts-el.jar is in WEB-INF/lib --- Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: klute wrote: This are the tagligs i am importing on this page: <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-h

Re: Setting html:hidden property using JSTL

2004-06-24 Thread Rick Reumann
Tom McCobb wrote: I am having the same nagging problem in JBoss3.2.3/Tomcat4.1. ---this works just fine The last line always renders as '' both in the Form property and the request parameter. I checked versions, etc. as detailed earlier in this thread. I'm stumped. I'm using J

Re: Getting index value of iteration

2004-06-25 Thread Rick Reumann
Wendy Smoak wrote: From: Tom McCobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In another section of the page I display an iterated list of items in a collection. I am stuck on how to get the value of "i", the index of the row wherein the button was clicked. Are you willing to use JSTL? The tag has 'varStatus'

Re: Getting index value of iteration

2004-06-25 Thread Rick Reumann
Mark Lowe wrote: Thanks Rick. You've shown me exactly how to do what i need do and I didn't even ask the question :o) Glad I could help. Someone actually showed me how to do that using JSTL. He's now moved on to using Spring now that loser:) -- Rick -

Re: Newbie question re. CSS and Struts

2004-06-26 Thread Rick Reumann
Jan Behrens wrote: > I mean, do many people use CSS in combination with Struts or do you normally attache something like to each property in your message property file, or... I usually use SiteMesh now for controlling the overall layout of my pages, but even if using Struts Tiles, it's a good

Re: [OT] Storing Birth Date

2004-06-26 Thread Rick Reumann
Eddie Yan wrote: Anyone know what is the best practices to store a person date of birth ? How should we design our detail object, JSP and database in such way we don't have a messy approached to populate the day, month and year in Action class to be able to display in JSP during UPDATE process. Cur

Re: Newbie question re. forms in combination with tiles

2004-06-26 Thread Rick Reumann
Jan Behrens wrote: please ignore, solved this one myself ;) he he did you solve it half way into typing up the message:) You never really asked a question:) -Original Message- From: Jan Behrens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:58 PM To: Struts Users Mailing Li

Re: Nested dispatch action

2004-06-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Mark Lowe wrote: I've been looking through the struts source with a view to trying to find a way of handling nested dispatch actions. I don't think it matters what kind of action it is, but maybe I'm missing what you are trying to do. I've looked at what you have below, but I confused from a 're

Re: RE : Struts, XDoclet, and Maven...

2004-06-27 Thread Rick Reumann
Andy Akins wrote: but I'm fairly new to Maven but have coded two simple struts apps with it - and XDoclet is brand new to me. I'm looking to combine all of the above (and eventually Hibernate - but that's for a later day). I don't see what advantage using XDoclet with Struts is? If someone can sho

Re: RE : Struts, XDoclet, and Maven...

2004-06-28 Thread Rick Reumann
Marco Mistroni wrote: I m doing it coz I m lazy and I prefer that someone else Generates configuration files for me.. But what aspect of configuration is it saving you time with? You still have to code all the parameters for your action mapping in the Action class, so what's the difference time-w

Re: [OT] Anatomy of a long URL

2004-06-28 Thread Rick Reumann
Hookom, Jacob wrote: Another example is JSF. JSF allows you to store your state client side or server side. If it's client side, your buttons, etc become POSTs instead of GETs in order to get around the URL length limit. Also, hidden fields are written out with your objects serialized into a str

Re: Using struts-nested tags

2004-07-05 Thread Rick Reumann
Paride Perazzolo wrote: Hi folks, I'm new to the list, so forgive me if I'm not respecting Netiquette or asking off-topics. Welcome to the list. Not off topic. Comments inline. I'm trying to render pieces of html using the following syntax: from struts-config.xml the definition of the form follows:

Re: Request bean is lost

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Reumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an action Page.do that gets 3 lists from a database. It then places the lists inside a bean which is set in the request. The Page.jsp iterates thru the bean to display the data. The form is posted to the PageSubmit.do. But before the PageForm.validate() is executed.

Re: more: Re: almost OT - html4.0 buttons don't work in IE 6 SP 1 ??

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Reumann
Axel Groß wrote: aaargh. Just found another problem. Seems that the IE is so clever that if there are multiple buttons of the same name he just submits the first button of the name, regardless of which of them had been clicked. Ok, I think I'll just forget about LookupDispatchAction and HTML 4.0 So

Re: some best practices questions

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Reumann
Christina Siena wrote: I recently developed an application with a complex UI. One of the pages required querying the database based on user selection and re-displaying the page with the retrieved data and any previous existing user selections. Four different fields can trigger a db query resulting

Re: some best practices questions

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Reumann
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:58:16 -0700, Michael McGrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wouldn't mind an ongoing discussion group on this alone somehow, if there were a way to do that. I might create a forum for that. I created a model-struts group on yahoo groups for discussing more of the model

Re: some best practices questions

2004-07-07 Thread Rick Reumann
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:57:23 +0200, Bryan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For instance if I want to page through it ( using displaytags.org (10 out of 10)) or simply if I don't want to fetch from the database time and time again. By default the data expires on an hourly basis. And if a differe

Re: using Constants from JSTL .....

2004-07-07 Thread Rick Reumann
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:12:02 +0200, Bryan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And it works fine, but really what I am trying to get here is the value of using Constants in both my Actions and my ( JSTL based ) jsp's. You need to have all your Constants in a Map that is in application scope. Kris

Re: using Constants from JSTL .....

2004-07-08 Thread Rick Reumann
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:49:11 +0200, Bryan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually I haven't seen the 'scope' property like that, but have you tried (assuming ApplicationScope)... The above should work assuming you have a Constants class that is in Application scope and Constants is eith

Re: using Constants from JSTL .....

2004-07-08 Thread Rick Reumann
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:43:11 -0400, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Duh, my bad, as David mentioned the above should be ${applicationScope.. }. Sorry about that. -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Setting the action attribute for nested:form

2004-07-08 Thread Rick Reumann
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:02:30 -0400, Vinuta Nagaraddi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to set the action attribute for the nested:form tag dynamically. I want to achieve this by using a property called 'url' from the form (or maybe someone can suggest a better way). I was unsuccessful usi

Re: Theoretical debate

2004-07-09 Thread Rick Reumann
Mike Duffy wrote: One aspect of JSF which I find troubling is, "With JSF, the component model takes care of all the responsibilities that Struts uses an ActionForm form, so you don't need one any more." Most of the JSF examples I've studied use method (2) from Craig's list below: "You can bind

Re: newbie question on indexed properties

2004-07-09 Thread Rick Reumann
Bill Siggelkow wrote: Okay -- now I am confused -- if I use your approach I get ... javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot find bean esami in any scope I have to specify the name of the form as the value for the 'name' atrribute of logic:iterate Are you sure you have the iterate taking place insid

Re: [EVIL] Modifying a request parameter

2004-07-09 Thread Rick Reumann
Jim Barrows wrote: No offense but... better you then me :) *LOL* I have someone at work who loves configuration files, because the increase flexibility.. which is cool, BUT silly putty is flexible too, but you wouldn't want to build a house with it. Actually this is one of my concerns as ever

Re: [EVIL] Modifying a request parameter

2004-07-09 Thread Rick Reumann
Jim Barrows wrote: Then of course there's the attribute oriented programming stuff that I like a lot put the configuration in the java classes and have them generated... that puts everything back into one place again, while keeping the ease of configuration the technology promises. I can't wai

Re: [ANN] Struts 1.2.1 (Beta) Released

2004-07-11 Thread Rick Reumann
Woo Hoo.. Let's start the party:) Any rumors on when 1.3 is coming out? Ted Husted wrote: The Struts team announces the release of Struts 1.2.1, currently ranked at Beta quality. This release removes many features deprecated in prior releases (Struts 1.1 and Struts 1.0.2) and also provides severa

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:31:29 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) Use two different JSPs to house these forms, even though there will be a lot of redundancy, because the fields may have some variation, and because I'm not fond of having conditionals in the form (if (add) { } els

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:22:11 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using BeanUtils.copyProperties(), it's a piece of cake to update your Form bean from the ValueObject properties. Do you have an example of this, or is there one on your site? I indeed have some properties that are th

Re: R: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:02:21 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recall that when I set the "value" property on any of my inputs, I ran into a problem with user input changes being "remembered" in the case of a page reload due to form validation failure. This depends Erik. If you

Re: Prepopulating forms

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:09:15 +0100, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // Find the FormBeanConfig FormBeanConfig config = mapping.getModuleConfig().findFormBeanConfig("myForm"); I've only rarely ever had to create Forms in my Actions (like you're doing in the above). I'd be curi

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:09:41 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am now using the same form successfully for adds and updates. I am using the Validator plugin for validation, which I find to be pretty awesome. The problem I face though is, the fields I need to validate are sligh

Re: Prepopulating forms & validation

2004-07-12 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:09:41 -0400, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because of one or two fields being different between add and update forms, I fear I'll have to do a nearly-redundant (and very long) element for my update condition in validation.xml. Does anyone have a better solut

Re: Which validator approach to use

2004-07-13 Thread Rick Reumann
Bill Siggelkow wrote: I would concur with Ted -- I have worked with Struts apps that take approach (B) -- that is, using the business object as the Form -- not only does this bind your business object to the Struts API -- more importantly, you have to make sure that all the field types are strin

Re: Which validator approach to use

2004-07-13 Thread Rick Reumann
Bill Siggelkow wrote: Good point, Rick. Isn't this the sort of thing that JSF allows? Not sure haven't looked at JSF yet:) Plan to at some point. Craig? Of course, you can bind a validation to an action mapping using the ValidatorActionForm -- however this still forces your business objects to e

Re: How to repopulate main page after returning from lookup page

2004-07-14 Thread Rick Reumann
(Sorry if this post comes through twice.. not sure why it never made it this morning when I thought I sent this out). Mazen, Tamer S wrote: My question is: when user clicks on the add button I want to submit main page's form so I can preserve all user's entered data so when he come back to the ma

Re: Question on parameterizing action attribute to html:form

2004-07-17 Thread Rick Reumann
Erik Weber wrote: I found the answer. It is to use the struts-el html tag library instead of the standard html tag library, and then to refer to the variable using the expression language syntx: . . . Erik are you uisng one of the DispatchActions (regular DispatchAction, LookUpDipsatcchAction

Re: About Master-Detail / Radio Buttons / Indexed Properties Behavious !!!

2004-07-17 Thread Rick Reumann
Could you please try to format your e-mail message better with breaks that make sense. (Code needs some hard coded breaks at appropriate places:). Buland Altaf wrote: Hi Theres, I am facing some issues about master-detail / radio button for indexed properties. Issues are:-___ Problem 1

Re: Question on parameterizing action attribute to html:form

2004-07-18 Thread Rick Reumann
Erik Weber wrote: if you have a single JSP that houses a form that is used for different commands (add, update), you are still going to need two separate form elements in validation.xml, causing redundancy (until "field inheritance" is implemented at least), correct? That is correct, although i

Re: JSF vs Struts

2004-07-18 Thread Rick Reumann
Craig McClanahan wrote: For applications you are about to start on, if it is your intent to use the Struts HTML tags for your view tier, you should review that decision in the light of the developments of the last few months, since the JSF spec went final, to say nothing of the availability of alte

Re: JSF vs Struts

2004-07-19 Thread Rick Reumann
Craig McClanahan wrote: With JSF, however, the situation is different. Every JSF component is, at its core, just a JavaBean ... it doesn't care what technology is used to ultimately manage the page. Yes, we provide JSP tag wrappers around all the standard components (because that addresses the ne

Re: Question on parameterizing action attribute to html:form

2004-07-19 Thread Rick Reumann
Andrey Rogov wrote: there is another way to work with parameter form:action. If you use Tiles in your applications create one reusable tiles lay with elements of design, control buttons and page control. In this case you can use the page with many forms. Then solution can be replaced with . Wh

Re: [OT] JBoss, Jaas and Struts

2004-07-19 Thread Rick Reumann
Erik Weber wrote: Dang I thought I was onto something! I guess I'll stick to my "User" object in each session, and just try to make sure I centralize the auth checks as much as I can. Dunno why I ever wanted to change it, anyway. Thanks Craig for your time. I also sent your question on to a co-w

Re: nested tags and bean population

2004-07-19 Thread Rick Reumann
Juan Alvarado wrote: In my form bean I have an array list called categories that contains objects of type Category. Each Category object contains an array list of Steps. So in my jsp I am rendering this relation as follows: property='categories' id='cat' type='com.securance.vo.ApStepCategoryVO'>

Re: how to check a 'set' variable in Struts tag/JSTL

2004-07-19 Thread Rick Reumann
lixin chu wrote: for example, I have a variable called 'Roles' which is a Set. In a JSP, I want to check if 'Admin'/'Guest'/'User' is in the Set. How do I do this ? Could not find a suitable tag to handle this. Unfortunately I haven't found a tag in JSTL or Struts that does this (I think there sho

Re: Velocity vs tags (was JSF vs Struts)

2004-07-21 Thread Rick Reumann
David Evans wrote: Could you elaborate on what you find distastful about Velocity? I wasn't being "all" seriously when I said "yuk":) but seriously I do find that when you have a decent amount of conditional logic on a page (which sometimes during presentation is unavoidable if you want to re-u

Re: OT: Re: Velocity vs tags (was JSF vs Struts)

2004-07-22 Thread Rick Reumann
David Evans wrote: Velocitys other big sellling point to me is that i can use it during an action's execution, for instance, to create files on disc. theres no way to do that with jsp is there? Not sure what you mean by writing files to disc? You mean writing to the server's file system? If so,

Re: Portability & extension vs path mapping

2004-07-22 Thread Rick Reumann
Erik Weber wrote: I have a feeling I am missing something here. I tried fiddling with the action attribute to html:link, rather than the page attribute, but that didn't seem to do it. . . . . Or am I thinking about extension mapping the wrong way? Why not just always use the mapping /do/* then i

Re: Excel File Conversion

2004-08-11 Thread Rick Reumann
Viral_Thakkar wrote: Data is available on the jsp page. I need to convert this to excel file on click of a button. Is there any way in struts to do this? If it you just want the page to display as is in Excel either 1) Use Tiles or Sitemesh and make sure your content opens in the Excel layout with

Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Reumann
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: I am unable to find a solution or an alternate way of having multiple forms in one jsp and upon submit one action handling all forms.The jsp will have the forms as follows: <%-- first form stuff -- using formA --%> <%-- se

Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Reumann
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: Micheal I was trying to submit all three at one time. I've been doing Struts for a long time now and have never run across a case where I had to do submit more than one form from one click. You can have as many forms as you want on a page though and you

Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Reumann
ppk123 wrote: you can submit multiple forms using javascript like document.forms[0].submit(); .. and so on.. keep in mind to have different targets for each forms. Yea there are ton of Javascript tricks you can do but usually you want to avoid this kind of stuff if possible. My guess is there is

Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Reumann
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: This is what I wanted to do without using any javascript. <%-- first form stuff -- using formA --%> <%-- second form stuff -- using formB -- displayed%> First Contact: value="${contact[0].fullName}" readonly="false"/>

Re: xdoclet and struts forms

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Reumann
Laran Evans wrote: I have a struts ActionForm which I would like to markup with xdoclet tags. Don't do it:) Seriously, IMO, I think it's a waste. I think it's nice having one configuration file to look it to set up all my mappings (your config.xml file). Think about it, using xdoclet if you decid

Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Reumann
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: Rick, my apologies for being unclear here, html:text is html-el:text and I am using JSTL to retrieve data and iterate with (c:foreach). There are alot more fields involve here each ActionForm corrolate to a database tables(Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform).

Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Reumann
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Re: Loosing request attributes

2004-08-13 Thread Rick Reumann
Leandro Melo wrote: Suppose a user submits a request that is handled by MyActionDoSomething. Then this action sets a request attribute like this: request.setAttribute("MyObject", obj); and forwards the request to the page myPageDoSomeOtherThing.jsp, wich has some inputs for the user to fill in. T

Re: Who calls the validate method ???

2004-08-13 Thread Rick Reumann
Leandro Melo wrote: Hi, could anyone tell me who calls the validate method of the ActionForms? I think "you" should:) I find it's often more beneficial to not rely on Struts calling this validate() method and instead you should call this manually. From my other post: - when validation fails and

clarification was: Re: Loosing request attributes

2004-08-13 Thread Rick Reumann
Craig McClanahan wrote: I can then call a private setUp() method in my Action that is used to set up my form with any other request attributes that should always be there. I'm curious why using the input parameter doesn't work for you? Indeed ... the feature is working as it was designed, based on

Re: clarification was: Re: Loosing request attributes

2004-08-13 Thread Rick Reumann
Craig McClanahan wrote: That makes more sense now. I tend to put all my lookup data (for dropdown lists and such) into application scope (if its global) or session scope (if it's user specific), primarily as a performance enhancement ... I only have to look it up once, instead of once per request.

Re: html:text - want to set disable= to a bean value

2004-08-16 Thread Rick Reumann
Stuart Guthrie wrote: Hi there, What I'm trying to do is re-use the same jsp for ADD/UPDATE modes. In order to do this, certain field attributes will be different depending on the modes and sometimes even on the user's security credentials or the 'status' of the customer row. To this end I need t

Re: [OT] DAO ... where to draw the line?

2004-08-16 Thread Rick Reumann
Matthew J. Vincent wrote: Hi all, Thanks for the info. Here's another issue. What if I have an employee search screen that wants to show only some of the information of an employee (not all). What do you do then? 1. Instanatiate an Employee object and only fill in the relative information? Kee

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