validation wierdness possibly related to multiple struts config files

[Bryan Hunt]

I have the following jsp page
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<html:errors/>
 <table width="712" border="0">
   <tr>
     <td width="197">
       <html:form action="/client-change-password-action">
         <table>
           <tr>
             <th align="right"><bean:message 
key="label.oldPassword"/>:</th>
             <td>
               <html:text property="oldPassword"/>
             </td>
etc etc etc
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I have 4 struts config files default.xml,client.xml,admin.xml,sales.xml
They are declared as so in my web.xml file.
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<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts/default.xml,
/WEB-INF/struts/client.xml,
/WEB-INF/struts/sales.xml,
/WEB-INF/struts/admin.xml
</param-value>
</init-param>
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The default.xml contains the following lines which work just fine for 
everything else
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<message-resources parameter="ie.jestate.web.ApplicationResources"/>

<!-- Plug Ins Configuration -->
 <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >
   <set-property property="definitions-config" 
value="/WEB-INF/tiles/default-defs.xml,/WEB-INF/tiles/client-defs.xml,/WEB-INF/tiles/sales-defs.xml,/WEB-INF/tiles/admin-defs.xml" 
/>
   <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />
   <set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true" />
 </plug-in>

  <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
   <set-property property="pathnames" 
value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
 </plug-in>
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My validation.xml file has the following relevant lines ...
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 <form name="ClientChangePasswordForm">
           <field property="oldPassword" depends="required">
           <arg0 key="label.oldPassword"/>
           </field>
           <field property="newPassword" depends="required">
           <arg0 key="label.newPassword"/>
           </field>
           <field property="confirmNewPassword" depends="required">
           <arg0 key="label.confirmNewPassword" />
           </field>
       </form>
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My ApplicationResources.properties file has the following content
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label.oldPassword=Old Password
label.newPassword=New Password
label.confirmNewPassword=Confirm New Password
errors.required={0} is required.<br>
errors.minlength={0} cannot be less than {1} characters.<br>
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Now everything works fine including the labels (ie <bean:message 
key="label.oldPassword"/> ) but when
the form is submitted but not all the fields are filled out I get the 
following messages ( output from <html:errors/>.

null is required.
null is required.
null is required.
Is this possibly a Struts bug or is it too late in the day and I drink 
to many units at the weekend being an Irishman ?

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