uh, oh, never mind. major duh moment.. The answer is right there in the first link:
Finally, you can save an [ActionMessages] object under an arbitrary key and display it with the html:messages tag: ActionMessages am = new ActionMessages(); am.add( ActionMessages.GLOBAL_MESSAGE, new ActionMessage( "msg.warning" ) ); request.setAttribute("warnings", am); and in your page: <html-el:messages name="warnings" id="msg"> <c:out value="${msg}"/> </html-el:messages> Sorry for wasting your time! Geeta > -----Original Message----- > From: Geeta Ramani > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 10:44 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: ActionError(s) vs. ActionMessage(s) > > > Hi all: > > I have been looking into ActionErrors vs. ActionMessages and > found the following two links: > > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?StrutsDeprecatedA > ctionErrors > > and > > http://www.husted.com/struts/tips/017.html > > The first link suggests that ActionError will be deprecated > starting 1.2. However, ActionForm.validate will still return > ActionErrors. So how is one supposed to use validate()? (It's > easy enough to create ActionMessages in the ActionForm but > the saveMessages method is only part of the Action class not > the ActionForm..) > > Finally, the latter part of the second link above does still > seem to use ActionError and ActionErrors.. I know I must be > missing something.. ? > > Thanks for your time! > Regards, > Geeta > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]