Hi Alberto, Thanks for taking the time for this extensive answer. I will try to answer the questions you pose
Alberto A. Flores wrote: > > How are you building your application? It sounds like you are not using > maven (I highly recommend it so you avoid many problem). Now, a couple > of things about this post: > Sorry, I'm bootstrapping. I have seen maven mentioned, but are too new to *also* include maven. I might have maven installed, but am not actively using it. - The error you are referring, is it an error in Eclipse or during > deployment? Two BIG different things. The error I mentioned is the one I see in Eclipse. The result I describe (no text fields or submit button) is what I observe in Tomcat. The relation between the two is made by myself. - If Eclipse doesn't recognize the struts 2 tag, it's because you have > not included the strut2-*.jar files in the classpath. It could very well be that I forgot to add the Struts-specific jar files to the classpath. As I threw the diretory away after I continued with following examples I now have a hard time to recreate the problem. Please check the > documentation of Eclipse if you are not familiar how to do that. Since > the way URI resolution has changed through out the different JSP > versions, Eclipse will resolve the URI according to the following > heuristic (see link - > http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jst/components/jsp/designs/taglibindex/taglibindex.html) > Will do. the document is now rolling off the printer. > Please keep in mind that the fact that it resolves in Eclipse is no > indication that it will resolve during deployment (unless you have a > good development environment that mimics your deployment jars) > No such luck. The error message is gone in Eclipse, but the input boxes and submit button are still gone in Tomcat. > - Depending on the container that you are using, you don't need to use > web.xml at all (tld file should be within the jar file and the container > should know where to look for it) > Strangely enough, the taglib was not in web.xml, but in a jsp. > - What jars have you included? At a minimum you shouls have: > struts-core-x.jar, xwork-x.jar, ognl-x.jar, freemarker-x.jar (x refers > to the release, which may not be the same). These releases are easy to > obtain if you use maven. If you don't then, when you download the struts > 2 distribution, these should come. If you are learning, just copy *all* > and learn what breaks as you take jar by jar off the lib directory. > As I had to recreate the example, I can not say what I had. But what you say is sound advice. Put all eggs in the basket, and throw out all extraneous ones until the last one breaks the application. - If the textfield doesn't show, there may be many reasons for that to > happen. Have you consider? (i) Not having all jars in the lib directory, > (ii) your struts tag having a "name" attribute mapping to an unknown > property. (iii) Have you looked at the produced HTML? (iv) Have you > checked all logs? > So many places to check. As a newbie, I do not know where to check. But hopefully in the future I will know (as a matter of fact, I already look in the different log files of Tomcat and Apache, but can't find any interesting tidbits pointing me to profound knowledge. But that's being a starter, I think). On your question of not having all jars in (Tomcats/)the lib directory: No. Should I copy everything to Tomcat? On your second question of my struts tag having an attribute to an unknown property. I don't know. I think this is not the case, as I use the code of the author and think this code is flawless (*famous last words of a newbie*). But as I said, the next example is not broken. So I will ponder on. But thanks for your answer. Abel AbelMacAdam wrote: > > AbelMacAdam wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm learning to work with Struts. (FWIW, I use Eclipse Europa, and >> Apache/Tomcat). Now I have my first example with a tld-file. First of >> all, >> I noticed the following error in Eclipse on a jsp: >> Cannot find the tag library descriptor for /tags/struts-html >> >> The first line of the jsp with the error is: >> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %> >> >> My WEB-INF/web.xml contains the following lines: >> <taglib> >> <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-html</taglib-uri> >> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts_html.tld</taglib-location> >> </taglib> >> >> And the same WEB-INF directory also contains the struts_html.tld file. >> >> So far the background. If I run this example in Tomcat I get a page >> without textfields and a submit button. So this example clearly does not >> work. Do you know what I need to do to get this example working? Am I >> right in assuming I get not textfields/buttons because the tag library >> descriptor is not found? >> >> TIA, >> Abel >> > > What version of Struts 1 are you using? > >> None. I actually use 2.0.11. > > Easy way to check: unpack the jar and see if the META-INF directory > contains the tld. It could very well be an incorrectly built jar. > >> Struts.jar contains struts-html.tld > > And strangely enough, the next example did not show the error, and was > displayed correctly. I even added Struts to the first example. But it > still > does not work. If no one else has an explanation I write it off to earth > rays. > > Abel -- Alberto A. 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