What does work, with any system, is to use a index.html page and do the redirect with meta tags. I point it to a Welcome action so I can use the same one in every application and then just change what Welcome does.
<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=./Welcome.do"> </head> <body> <br /> </body> </html>
HTH, Ted.
Rich Garabedian wrote:
Thanks for the response!
I must confess, however, than I'm not sure what you mean.
I've set up the VelocityServlet in web.xml, so Tomcat should know what to do with files containing the vm file extension. I just did a further test and if I change this line in the welcome.vm file:
<LI><A href="$link.setForward('logon')">Sign in</A></LI>
to
<LI><A href="$link.setAction('template.logon.vm')">Sign in</A></LI>
I no longer get the exception?????? So the page seems to be rendering fine, but it definitely doesn't like the setForward() function.
-----Original Message----- From: Barbara Baughman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:54 AM To: Velocity Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem using Velocity strut tools as the welcome file
My guess is that you have to run through a servlet to render a Velocity page. Most servlet containers would recognize the .jsp extension as an indicator to automatically build a servlet behind the scenes. The .vm extension does not.
Barbara Baughman X2157
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Rich Garabedian wrote:
I'm writing some rudimentary tests to get Velocity up-and-running
with
Jakarta struts. I have a very small logon example. It works
perfectly
with jsp's. It works perfectly with velocity as well UNLESS I change
the
welcome page from this:
<welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list>
To this:
<welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>welcome.vm</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list>
index.jsp is the typical redirect page:
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %> <logic:redirect forward="welcome"/>
Error I get is this:
Invocation of method 'setForward' in class org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.StrutsLinkTool threw exception
class
java.lang.NullPointerException : null org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation
of
method 'setForward' in class org.apache.velocity.tools.struts.StrutsLinkTool threw exception
class
java.lang.NullPointerException : null
I've included my stuts config file at the bottom of this email as
well.
Can anyone tell me if this is expected behavior?
I'm using:
struts 1.1 velocity-tools-1.1-beta1 jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16
Struts config file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd";>
<struts-config>
<!-- ======================================== Form Bean Definitions
-->
<form-beans> <form-bean name="logonForm"
type="com.autorevenue.prospecting.struts.forms.LogonForm"/> </form-beans>
<!-- =================================== Global Forward Definitions
-->
<global-forwards> <forward name="welcome" path="/Welcome.do"/>
<forward name="logon" path="/Logon.do"/> </global-forwards>
<!-- =================================== Action Mapping Definitions
-->
<action-mappings> <action type="com.autorevenue.prospecting.struts.actions.LogonAction" path="/LogonSubmit" name="logonForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="/templates/logon.vm"> <forward
name="success"
path="/Welcome.do" redirect="true"/> </action>
<action path="/Welcome"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" parameter="/templates/welcome.vm"/>
<action path="/Logon"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" parameter="/templates/logon.vm"/> </action-mappings>
<!-- ================================ Message Resources Definitions
-->
<message-resources parameter="ApplicationResources"
null="false"/>
</struts-config>
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