Is there a way to populate a bean on a Server's (I'm using Tomcat) start up in Struts?
I have a Java bean, say X, which is called and a populated in an Action Servlet, say myAction. Whenever I start my application and call a JSP layer say, MyLayer.jsp, which is supposed to iterate this bean using <logic:iterate>, I get the exception: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Cannot find bean X in scope session ----- ----- However, this exception disappears when I first call the Action Servlet directly with a call such as http://localhost/myaction.do , followed by a http://localhost/MyLayer.jsp call. Apparently the bean has nothing to show when I first call MyLayer.jsp. Can someone suggest a better approach? Thanks Bob Ps.: the bean, X, get its values from a database. my struts-config.xml snippet : --- -- <global-forwards> <forward name="books" path="/MyLayer.jsp"/> ------- ------- </global-forwards> <action-mappings> <action path="/myaction" type="com.myController.myAction" scope="session" > <forward name="books" path="/MyLayer.jsp"/> </action> </action-mappings> ----
