If I have a regular ActionForm, all is well. If I change to: public final class ContactForm extends ValidatorForm
It's validating on the *first* display of the form and then complaining that the required field isn't present. (Of course not... the user hasn't had a chance to type anything yet!) The very first time I hit the Struts action with: http://zzz.yyy.www.edu/dev/editContact.do?contactKey=4100&action=Edit I get: Validation Error You must correct the following error(s) before proceeding: Contact Date is required. >From the console messages, I can tell that it's not even getting to the code in the [LookupDispatch]Action. I see the two filters, the GET and then the reset method being called: BenefactorAccessFilter.doFilter Nov 6, 2002 12:58:42 PM org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor process INFO: Processing a 'GET' for path '/editContact' ContactForm.reset At that point, I see my form with the validation message (above) and nothing in any of the fields. (It should have read from the DB and presented the record to edit. That works fine as a regular ActionForm.) The validation.xml is: <form-validation> <formset> <form name="contactForm"> <field property="date" depends="required"> <arg0 key="label.date"/> <var> <var-name>datePatternStrict</var-name> <var-value>MM/dd/yyyy</var-value> </var> </field> </form> </formset> </form-validation> I do NOT have validate="true" in the <action> tag: <action path="/editContact" type="edu.asu.vpia.example.EditContactAction" name="contactForm" scope="session" input="/WEB-INF/jsp/contact.jsp" parameter="action"> <forward name="resolution" path="/resolveName.do" /> <forward name="saved" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/contactConfirm.jsp" /> <forward name="success" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/contact.jsp" /> <forward name="failure" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/contactFailure.jsp" /> </action> In fact, I need it to not validate automatically... I need to call the validate method manually at the last minute, as this is a form where the user can come and go repeatedly before clicking "Finish" to say that they're really done with it. This is my first try with Validation, so if you see anything wrong, no matter how trivial, please say something! I'm working from the incomplete chapter from the O'Reilly book and from the validation example in the 10/5 Struts nightly build. -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University PA Information Resources Management