The reason you are getting this error is that your action mapping does not specify a form bean.
-- Martin Cooper ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: Create button instead of html:link to JSP page > (I tried sending this on Thursday, but I haven't seen it yet, even after I > started to see real flow again in the list.) > > I have a working "<html:link>" element, which links to a JSP page. It doesn't > need any request parameters or action, it just links directly to it. > > I'm trying to figure out the cleanest way to make this be a button element, > instead of a link, but do the same thing. > > I used to have this: > > <html:link page="/main/main.jsp">Home</html:link> > > I'm experimenting with something like this: > > <html:form action="/main/main.do"> > <html:submit value="Home"/> > </html:form> > > and a "struts-config.xml" entry like this: > > <action path="/main/main" forward="/main/main.jsp" /> > > This fails, however, with: > > javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for form bean null > > I tried making it an ordinary <html:button>, but I got various errors. First, > it said I needed a "property" attribute, then when I put in a dummy "property" > value, I got an exception "Cannot retrieve definition for form bean null". > > Then, I tried changing my form from "<html:form>" to just "<form>", and that at > least displayed my page. Now, if I were to use this, I guess I'd have to write > a javascript event handler to make it follow the link. This doesn't sound too > good, because (unless I'm mistaken), Struts does the correct massaging of local > URLs for rewriting and other purposes, and putting the raw link in the > javascript event handler would bypass that. > > -- > =================================================================== > David M. Karr ; Best Consulting > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Java/Unix/XML/C++/X ; BrainBench CJ12P (#12004) > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
