Re: struts not reading properties file

[G.L. Grobe]

Agreed, but not the case.

- Original Message -
From: "Dan Miser" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: struts not reading properties file


 Most likely you have a copy of struts.jar somewhere on your CLASSPATH. It
 only belongs in WEB-INF/lib.
 --
 Dan Miser
 http://www.distribucon.com

 - Original Message -
 From: G.L. Grobe
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 10:27 PM
 Subject: struts not reading properties file

  500 Internal Server Error
 javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Missing message for key main.title at
 org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.MessageTag.doStartTag(MessageTag.java,
 Compiled Code) at /index.jsp._jspService(/index.jsp.java, Compiled Code)
at

autocomplete attribute for html form tag

[Eric Wang]

Hi,

Just wondering has anyone manage to turn off the autocomplete feature in IE thru
Stuts form tag?

Currently I am using the Struts html form tag to come up with the login form.
As far as I know, we can have an attribute autocomplete='off' in the normal form
tag to turn this feature off.
However, the Struts form tag does not support this attribute.

I am not sure will this attribute will be added into the Struts form tag in any
future release of Struts?
Or anyone has done it in another way?

Thanks in Advance.
Eric

maxFileSize and file upload the second

[SPietsch]

Hi,

I found time to do a bit more testing on file upload.

with  version  1.0-b1  the  parameter  maxFileSize is recognised and a
exception  is.  With the nightly build from 2001-04-17 it doesn't work
any more. Obviously  something changed in the mean time.

Another  problem  is  that  that  with version 1.0-b1 a temporary file
remains in the tmp directory. Am I supposed to catch the exception and
to deleted the file manually?

In struts-upload example is a small bug in UploadAction. The input stream 'stream' is
never  closed  explicitly.  So  the  temporary file remains in the tmp
directory  after  upload.  It's  easy to fix by just calling the close
method to every stream used after we are finished with it.

Hope that helps to get it a bit cleaned up.

Soeren


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Using a collection as a bean with the logic tags

[Firmin David]

Hi all,
I'm having trouble using the logic taglib (specifically
greaterEqual/lessThan) with a bean of type java.util.Map.
I need to do varying logic based on the size of the map, but am having
trouble making the value of .size() available to the tags.
I'd like to do something along these lines, but with as few scriptlets as
possible (I know this won't work):

jsp:useBean id="items" scope="session" type="java.util.Map"/
...
...
logic:greaterEqual property="%=items.values().size()%" value="1"
...
...stuff
...
/logic:greaterEqual
logic:lessThan property="%items.values().size()%" value="1"
...
...other stuff
...
/logic:lessThan

Like I say, I know what's written above won't work for all the various
reasons, but can anyone suggest something that might?
One idea I had was to use bean:define to open the size up to page scope and
then using the assigned id for it as the property in the logic tags, but I
can't make that work either.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance

Dave


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datasource and jndi

[Waumans, Jef]

Hi,
I want to use a datasource in a Struts based application but I also want
to lookup this dataSource in objects that do not have an action or a
servlet object in their scope, f.e. DAO's. In this case, using the
struts-config.xml dataSource description doesn't seem the best of
sollutions to me, I would prefer to do a jndi lookup for a dataSource
that has been defined in the server.xml file. Am I right and if so how
do I describe this dataSource in server.xml (resource? resource-ref?)
I'm using tomcat 4.0-b1.
Thanks,
Jef

No ActionForm Bean Required

[Stanley Tan]

Hi all,

Let's say I have a link that allows a user to empty his/her shopping 
cart.  The link to empty the cart points to "/empty.do".  I do not believe 
this requires an ActionForm bean (PLEASE, correct me if I am 
wrong).  Nonetheless, I have specified an ActionForm Bean because it is 
required:

 action path="/empty"
 type="EmptyAction"
 name="buyBean"
 scope="request"
 forward name="success" path="/viewcart.jsp"/
 /action

The bean is NOT used and has nothing to do with emptying the shopping 
cart.  Do I just accept that it works?  Or am I designing the program 
wrong?  Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Stanley Tan

RE: autocomplete attribute for html form tag

[Tobias Meyer]

Hi Eric,

 Currently I am using the Struts html form tag to come up with 
 the login form.
 As far as I know, we can have an attribute autocomplete='off' 
 in the normal form
 tag to turn this feature off.
 However, the Struts form tag does not support this attribute.

There's no autocomplete attribute in the "official" HTML 4.01 
specification, although it works in IE (don't know which versions).
[ http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4 ]

You could ask on the dev-list but I personally don't think that 
Struts should support one of these fancy IE-specific tags ;))

regards,

Tobias Meyer

RE: autocomplete attribute for html form tag

[Alastair Briggs]

Title: RE: autocomplete attribute for html form tag





I think it would be a good idea to have this property on all tags as this means that the system is able to cope with those demands that are needed as things change. I get quite frustrated when using systems that don't offer this sort of function as you then have to find highly creative ways to get around the restriction - which then create other problems.

An idea like this puts less stress on getting release out quickly as things can then be easily extended if there is some urgency from the developer but can be included more formally in future releases.

Al


-Original Message-
From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: autocomplete attribute for html form tag



Something we could consider in the 1.1 timeframe is a generic options
property that would just render non-standard options verbatim. So in
this case we might have something like options=autocomplete=off in the
Struts tag, and then the tags would just append that to the tag
properties, no questions asked. But I don't know how you would do this
now, unless the property can also be changed via Java or VB script that
you could call with one of the event handlers, or when the form loads.


Eric Wang wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 Just wondering has anyone manage to turn off the autocomplete feature in IE thru
 Stuts form tag?
 
 Currently I am using the Struts html form tag to come up with the login form.
 As far as I know, we can have an attribute autocomplete='off' in the normal form
 tag to turn this feature off.
 However, the Struts form tag does not support this attribute.
 
 I am not sure will this attribute will be added into the Struts form tag in any
 future release of Struts?
 Or anyone has done it in another way?
 
 Thanks in Advance.
 Eric


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Shopping Cart Example

[Stanley Tan]

Hi all,

I am building a shopping cart example using the struts framework for 
beginner's like myself.  So far, I have a pretty simple shopping cart that 
connects to a database.

Because I am new to this, I was wondering if any experienced programmer is 
willing to review my work and help me improve the example.  This example 
will be made available for newbies to the struts framework so your help 
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,


Stanley Tan

Re: Using a collection as a bean with the logic tags

[Jean-Noel Ribette]

It is possible to use the bean:size tag to expose the size of a collection:

bean:size name="items" property="values" id="itemsSize" scope="session"/
...
...
logic:greaterEqual name="itemsSize" value="1"
...
...stuff
...
/logic:greaterEqual
logic:lessThan name="itemsSize" value="1"
...
...other stuff
...
/logic:lessThan



Jean-Noel

- Original Message - 
From: Firmin David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: Using a collection as a bean with the logic tags


 Hi all,
 I'm having trouble using the logic taglib (specifically
 greaterEqual/lessThan) with a bean of type java.util.Map.
 I need to do varying logic based on the size of the map, but am having
 trouble making the value of .size() available to the tags.
 I'd like to do something along these lines, but with as few scriptlets as
 possible (I know this won't work):
 
 jsp:useBean id="items" scope="session" type="java.util.Map"/
 ...
 ...
 logic:greaterEqual property="%=items.values().size()%" value="1"
 ...
 ...stuff
 ...
 /logic:greaterEqual
 logic:lessThan property="%items.values().size()%" value="1"
 ...
 ...other stuff
 ...
 /logic:lessThan
 
 Like I say, I know what's written above won't work for all the various
 reasons, but can anyone suggest something that might?
 One idea I had was to use bean:define to open the size up to page scope and
 then using the assigned id for it as the property in the logic tags, but I
 can't make that work either.
 
 Can anyone help me out?
 
 Thanks in advance
 
 Dave
 
 
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Re: switching between SSL and non-SSL

[Ted Husted]

Any luck with this Eric? 

I'd like to do the same thing, a la auctions.yahoo.com

Everything works if I hardcode the references, but then you end up stuck
in SSL.

I started a SSL FAQ, and would like to include how to do this too. 



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Eric Wang wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 Has anyone done switching between SSL and non-SSL using Struts?
 
 My login page is using SSL. After successful logins, it suppose to route to a
 page that is non-SSL.
 
 Is there any example available for reference?
 
 Thanks in advance.
 Eric

Re: Another bean:iterate question

[Jim Crossley]

I've received that error before when I forgot to include the taglib
directive for the logic library.  That would prevent the "field" bean
from being created and result in the error you're seeing.

"Brett G. Palmer" wrote:
 
 I've been working on this bean:iterate ...  problem for some time now.  I
 finally had to use a scriplet to get it to work.  I am trying to get a list
 of FieldTypes from a record controller (PrimaryServer below) which implement
 an AbstractField object (this may be the entire problem ... let me know if
 Abstract objects will cause problems).  The controller has a method called
 getFieldList which returns an Iterator of these AbstractField objects.  I
 then want to get the name of each field using the property getFielName().
 The following is a snippet of my Jsp page.  Tomcat always returns with an
 error saying it "can't find bean 'field' in scope null".
 
 logic:iterate id="field" name="PrimaryServer" property="fieldList"
 type="com.iic.dbsync.IntField"
   tr
 td align="center" jsp:getProperty name="PrimaryServer"
 property="fieldList"/
   bean:write name="field" property="fielName"/ /td
 td html:text property="field2" size="100"  //td
   /tr
 /logic:iterate
 
 Here is the scriplet that I wrote to finally get the results that I wanted.
 
 % Iterator iter = PrimaryServer.getFieldList();
 while( iter.hasNext() ) {
 AbstractField field = (AbstractField) iter.next();
 String fieldName = field.getFieldName();
 %
   tr
 td align="center" %=fieldName% /td
 td html:text property="field2" size="100" //td
   /tr
 %}
 %
 
 The iterator tag still trips me up from time to time.  If anyone has any
 suggestions I would appreciate them.  I have enjoyed reading the previous
 postings concerning the iterator tag.
 
 Thanks again,
 
 Brett

How to run Struts in VAJ

[Andreas Dejung]

Hi

I studied the documentation and now I like to run Struts in VAJ 3.5.3. I
would also like to run the Test Enviroment since I use EJB's.

I found a lot of  mails in this mailing-list, but I did not found a
installation guide.

Can somebody help me ?

Does anybode know if there is such a guide or just which projects I have to
install on VAJ?


Thanks for help

Andy






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Re: How to run Struts in VAJ

[Kyle Brown]

If you mean VAJ 3.5.2 (3.5.3 has NOT been released yet) then the following
instructions should work. This is from an upcoming article on this subject
that I'm going to submit to the VisualAge developer domain website.
Warning!  This is a work in progress -- in particular I have NOT validated
that EJB's work as advertised...  Also, I obviously haven't attached my
application -- you'll have to wait on the article for that.  Finally,
PLEASE do not post this to other websites! Keep this on the mailing list
only.

However, I do welcome comments on the instructions.


Using Struts in VisualAge for Java 3.5.2


Since one of the requirements for using Struts is a JSP 1.1/Servlet 2.2
compliant Servlet engine, if you want to use Struts in VisualAge for Java
3.5.2 you must use the Apache Test Environment.  This can be downloaded for
free from VADD at
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4290?OpenDocumentp=1BCT=3Footer=1
 (note that you must register for VADD (free) to obtain this download).
After running the Apache Tomcat Test Environment installation program, you
must load the Apache Test Environment Feature using the FileQuick Start
dialog.

NOTE:  I have NOT validated that EJB's work after you do this.  That's on
my to-do list for today 

Note that it is not possible to have both the WebSphere Test Environment's
servlet engine and the Apache Test Environment co-reside in the same
VisualAge workspace.  The following set of instructions (provided by Sean
Sundberg from the IBM WebSphere Services group) detail how to allow both
EJB development using the WebSphere Test Environment and Servlet/JSP
development using the Apache Test Environment:

1.   Start from a workspace that does not contain the Apache Tomcat Test
Environment.
2.   Add the 'Websphere Test Environment' feature.
3.   Delete the 'Servlet API' project from the workspace.
4.   Add the 'Apache Tomcat Test Environement' feature.
5.   Select 'Options...' from the 'Window' menu.
6.   Select the 'Resources' menu option from the pane on the left.
7.   Press the 'Edit...' button from the pane on the right.
8.   Press the 'Add Jar/Zip' button.
9.   Browse to the 'project_resources\Apache_Tomcat_Test_Environment\lib'.
10.  Select 'servlet.jar' and press 'OK'.  (This is required to generate
the EJB code.  The WTE requries some properties files from the servlets.jar
file.)
11.  Press the 'OK' button to commit the resource changes.

The Persistent Name Server and EJB server can then be started to access
EJBs.  Servlets can now be accessed using the Apache Tomcat Test
Environment Note that this procedure is also covered in the IBM Redbook by
Bill Moore, et.al.,  " Migrating WebLogic Applications to WebSphere
Advanced Edition", SG24-5956, available from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com..
Once you have verified that Tomcat is successfully installed and that you
can serve pages from http://localhost:8080, then you are ready to proceed
with the Struts installation.

/NOTE

Struts will require not only that you have a compliant servlet engine on
your classpath, but that also you have a recent version of Xerxes in your
classpath as well.  You can either download these files from the Apache
website, or you can simply install them from the VisualAge repository file
that accompanies this article.  Note that Xerxes cannot co-exist with the
version of the IBM XML Parser for Java that ships with VisualAge for Java.
You will have to remove it from the workspace as well before you import
Xerxes (I often import Xalan as well).

Likewise, you will need to either download and install the Struts framework
from the Apache website, or load it from the accompanying repository file.
The current version (1.0-beta2) seems to be more than stable enough for
most uses ? there are several production sites currently using it.

If you choose to load the projects from the accompanying repository file,
be certain that you have loaded all of the following projects:

(1)  ApacheStruts 1.0-b2
(2)  Xerxes 1.2.2
(3)  Struts Experiments [For VADD] 1.0

Next, you will need to take the employeelist.zip file that accompanies this
article and unzip it into the VAJ install
root/ide/project_resource/Apache Test Environment/webapps directory.  This
will place the JSP, resource and XML files where Apache Tomcat expects to
find them.  If you make changes to these files, you should be sure to
create an open edition of the Apache Test Environment project and release
these files into the project ? that will ensure that you can obtain your
files even in the case of a crash.  For more information on using this
feature, see [Sahu] or consult the VisualAge documentation.  In real
development, of course, Resource, JSP and XML files should be managed
externally in Websphere Studio and published to the Tomcat /webapps
directory as a publication stage.

Finally, you will need to configure the Apache Tomcat Runner to find the
appropriate directories and jar files.  First, open the Properties dialog
for the 

RE: No ActionForm Bean Required

[Kristopher Brown]

Hi,

What do you mean by "it is required".  Is that your requirement or struts.

I have a similar thing called reset which is just

action path="/reset" type="a.b.c.ResetAction"/

Cheers
Kris.

-Original Message-
From: Stanley Tan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 April 2001 10:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: No ActionForm Bean Required


Hi all,

Let's say I have a link that allows a user to empty his/her shopping 
cart.  The link to empty the cart points to "/empty.do".  I do not believe 
this requires an ActionForm bean (PLEASE, correct me if I am 
wrong).  Nonetheless, I have specified an ActionForm Bean because it is 
required:

 action path="/empty"
 type="EmptyAction"
 name="buyBean"
 scope="request"
 forward name="success" path="/viewcart.jsp"/
 /action

The bean is NOT used and has nothing to do with emptying the shopping 
cart.  Do I just accept that it works?  Or am I designing the program 
wrong?  Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Stanley Tan

radio buttion checked

[Sundaram Ramasamy]

Hello.

How do I define the following radio button using htlm:radio tag. I don't
find the checked attribute
In  html:radio tag.

input type="radio" name="fd" value="" checked

Thank  regards
sundaram

Re: getting size of a collection

[Jean-Noel Ribette]

- Original Message -
From: Sundaram Ramasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: getting size of a collection


 Hi

 I have collection like this.
 %java.util.ArrayList list = new java.util.ArrayList();
 list.add("First");
 list.add("Second");
 list.add("Third");
 list.add("Fourth");
 list.add("Fifth");
   pageContext.setAttribute("list", list, PageContext.PAGE_SCOPE);
  %


 Before processing this collection, I want to compare the collection item
 grater than 1. how  will I do this.

 Can I use like this.

 bean:size name="list" property="size" id="itemsSize" scope="session"/

Yes you can, but you don't have to put  " property="size'' ". The tag knows how to get 
the size of an Array, a
Collection and a Map.

Jean-Noel

RE: getting size of a collection

[Sundaram Ramasamy]

Thanks, it defined like this

bean:size name="list"  id="itemsSize" scope="page"/

its working.


-Original Message-
From:   Jean-Noel Ribette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: getting size of  a collection


- Original Message -
From: Sundaram Ramasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: getting size of a collection


 Hi

 I have collection like this.
 %java.util.ArrayList list = new java.util.ArrayList();
 list.add("First");
 list.add("Second");
 list.add("Third");
 list.add("Fourth");
 list.add("Fifth");
   pageContext.setAttribute("list", list, PageContext.PAGE_SCOPE);
  %


 Before processing this collection, I want to compare the collection item
 grater than 1. how  will I do this.

 Can I use like this.

 bean:size name="list" property="size" id="itemsSize" scope="session"/

Yes you can, but you don't have to put  " property="size'' ". The tag knows
how to get the size of an Array, a
Collection and a Map.

Jean-Noel

why is init method of actionservlet being called twice?

[Alex Colic]

Hi,

I have subclassed actionservlet. In the init method of my subclass I have
called super.init();

For some reason as I step through my code the init method of my subclass is
being run through twice.

Any idea why?

my web.xml file is as follows:

  !-- Action Servlet Configuration --
  servlet
servlet-nameaction/servlet-name
servlet-classcom.myCompany.rd.pwActionServlet/servlet-class
init-param
  param-nameapplication/param-name

param-valuecom.myCompany.rd.reqPro.ApplicationResources/param-value
/init-param
init-param
  param-nameconfig/param-name
  param-value/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml/param-value
/init-param
init-param
  param-namedebug/param-name
  param-value2/param-value
/init-param
init-param
  param-namedetail/param-name
  param-value2/param-value
/init-param
init-param
  param-namevalidate/param-name
  param-valuetrue/param-value
/init-param
load-on-startup2/load-on-startup
  /servlet

Regards

Alex

Re: How to run Struts in VAJ

[Fei Xie]

Hi Andreas,

I am running VAJ 3.5 enterprise with tomcat 3.1 as testing env.  I found 
this mail to be extrememly helpful, which guide you through the installation 
and setup process.

http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg00019.html

Besides, you can download the Apache Tomcat Test Environment for VAJ3.5 at
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4290?OpenDocumentp=1BCT=3Footer=1


-Fei Xie


From: "Andreas Dejung" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to run Struts in VAJ
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:55:11 +0200

Hi

I studied the documentation and now I like to run Struts in VAJ 3.5.3. I
would also like to run the Test Enviroment since I use EJB's.

I found a lot of  mails in this mailing-list, but I did not found a
installation guide.

Can somebody help me ?

Does anybode know if there is such a guide or just which projects I have to
install on VAJ?


Thanks for help

Andy






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RE: Handling File Upload Failures

[Schachter, Michael]

Mike,

I just added two new exceptions to be thrown when the content length or
maximum length is exceeded, they will be the root cause of the
ServletException thrown.  Is this good enough to be able to elegantly handle
the problem for you?

-Original Message-
From: Rack, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:36 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Handling File Upload Failures


Is there an elegant way of handling file upload errors when the file size is
too large?  I want to display an error page that indicates that the file is
too large to upload.  Currently I can only get a second exception to
display.

For example if I restrict the file size to be 500K and someone attempts to
send a 1Mb file a ServletException with the message "Multipart data size
exceeds the maximum allowed post size" is thrown but execution continues
until another ServletException is thrown.  This second exception wraps an
IOException with the message " IOException while reading file element:
ioe.getMessage()" (Note the small bug with the message generated!) .  It is
the second error message that comes through in the implicit exception object
to my jsp error page.

It seems that the real error is masked by the second exception.  Why does
execution continue after the first ServletException is thrown?

- mike

Full Stack Trace: 


2001-04-17 06:02:36 - Ctx(  ): Exception in: R(  + /upload.do + null) -
javax.servlet.ServletException: Multipart data size exceeds the maximum
allowed post size
at
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartIterator.createLocalFile(MultipartIterator
.java:484)
at
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartIterator.getNextElement(MultipartIterator.
java:201)
at
org.apache.struts.upload.DiskMultipartRequestHandler.handleRequest(DiskMulti
partRequestHandler.java:70)
at
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:447)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.processPopulate(ActionServlet.java:19
10)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1521)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:509)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:387)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:263)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:371)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:74
9)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:695)
at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:207)
at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:403)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
 
2001-04-17 06:02:37 - Ctx(  ): Exception in: R(  + /upload.do + null) -
javax.servlet.ServletException: IOException while reading file element:
ioe.getMessage()
at
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartIterator.getNextElement(MultipartIterator.
java:205)
at
org.apache.struts.upload.DiskMultipartRequestHandler.handleRequest(DiskMulti
partRequestHandler.java:70)
at
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:447)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.processPopulate(ActionServlet.java:19
10)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1521)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:509)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:387)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:263)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:371)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:74
9)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:695)
at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:207)
at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:403)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
Root cause:
java.io.IOException: end of stream before boundary found!
at
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartValueStream.init(MultipartValueStream.ja
va:65)
at
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartIterator.createLocalFile(MultipartIterator
.java:469)
at

RE: maxFileSize and file upload the second

[Schachter, Michael]

Soeren,

with  version  1.0-b1  the  parameter  maxFileSize is recognised and a
exception  is.  With the nightly build from 2001-04-17 it doesn't work
any more. Obviously  something changed in the mean time.

This was just recently fixed.

Another  problem  is  that  that  with version 1.0-b1 a temporary file
remains in the tmp directory. Am I supposed to catch the exception and
to deleted the file manually?

This was even more recently just fixed, thanks for bringing it to my
attention.

In struts-upload example is a small bug in UploadAction. The input stream
'stream' is
never  closed  explicitly.  So  the  temporary file remains in the tmp
directory  after  upload.  It's  easy to fix by just calling the close
method to every stream used after we are finished with it.

Also taken care of, thanks again.

Mike

RE: Handling File Upload Failures

[Knabe, Rusty]

The new upload code still does not work under ATG Dynamo. In the upload
example, it still hangs just after the actual file is uploaded, and the
trailing fields are being processed. 
I have tried it with all the popular browsers and different JDK's on the
server.

Anyone else out there using file upload with ATG?

-Original Message-
From: Schachter, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:29 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Handling File Upload Failures


Mike,

I just added two new exceptions to be thrown when the content length or
maximum length is exceeded, they will be the root cause of the
ServletException thrown.  Is this good enough to be able to elegantly handle
the problem for you?

-Original Message-
From: Rack, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:36 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Handling File Upload Failures


Is there an elegant way of handling file upload errors when the file size is
too large?  I want to display an error page that indicates that the file is
too large to upload.  Currently I can only get a second exception to
display.

For example if I restrict the file size to be 500K and someone attempts to
send a 1Mb file a ServletException with the message "Multipart data size
exceeds the maximum allowed post size" is thrown but execution continues
until another ServletException is thrown.  This second exception wraps an
IOException with the message " IOException while reading file element:
ioe.getMessage()" (Note the small bug with the message generated!) .  It is
the second error message that comes through in the implicit exception object
to my jsp error page.

It seems that the real error is masked by the second exception.  Why does
execution continue after the first ServletException is thrown?

- mike

Full Stack Trace: 


2001-04-17 06:02:36 - Ctx(  ): Exception in: R(  + /upload.do + null) -
javax.servlet.ServletException: Multipart data size exceeds the maximum
allowed post size
at
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartIterator.createLocalFile(MultipartIterator
.java:484)
at
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartIterator.getNextElement(MultipartIterator.
java:201)
at
org.apache.struts.upload.DiskMultipartRequestHandler.handleRequest(DiskMulti
partRequestHandler.java:70)
at
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:447)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.processPopulate(ActionServlet.java:19
10)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1521)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:509)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:387)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:263)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:371)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:74
9)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:695)
at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:207)
at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:403)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
 
2001-04-17 06:02:37 - Ctx(  ): Exception in: R(  + /upload.do + null) -
javax.servlet.ServletException: IOException while reading file element:
ioe.getMessage()
at
org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartIterator.getNextElement(MultipartIterator.
java:205)
at
org.apache.struts.upload.DiskMultipartRequestHandler.handleRequest(DiskMulti
partRequestHandler.java:70)
at
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:447)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.processPopulate(ActionServlet.java:19
10)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1521)
at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:509)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:387)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:263)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:371)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:74
9)
at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:695)
at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:207)
at

Update on caching lists.

[Alex Colic]

Hi so far my list caching is going well,

I have set up a thread to monitor database changes and to update the lists
stored in the servlet context. Unfortunately, although my program is
noticing the change in the database and it is recompiling the data and
putting the new data into the context under the same name, the lists are not
being updated.

I place lists in the servletcontext via:

context.setAttribute("storeroomList",storerooms );

When the lists change I recall my cachelist method and the above line is
repeated. I thought that would replace the present list with the new one but
that is not occurring.

Is there another way I am supposed to be replacing attributes?

To test I opened up a web page populated with my list and then went to the
database and changed some values in the list. My program then caught these
changes, and repopulated the lists and then placed them in the context
again. I then opened up another window and the page was populated with the
old data.

Any help in this matter is appreciated.

Alex

Update on caching lists.

[Alex Colic]

Oh,

I thought about using removeAttribute() and then setting the attribute of
the list again but I am worried about pulling a list out of the
servletcontext just as a person might be accessing a page that needs that
list.

Regards

Alex

RE: Update on caching lists.

[Greg Reddin]

A couple of possibilities:
1)  Are you storing the list or a reference to it in session as well as servlet
context?  It may be that you still have a reference to the old list somewhere.
2)  Are you calling context.getAttribute() again to replace your reference with
one to the new list?
3)  Sanity check:  Is the page loading from browser cache?

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Update on caching lists.


Hi so far my list caching is going well,

I have set up a thread to monitor database changes and to update the lists
stored in the servlet context. Unfortunately, although my program is
noticing the change in the database and it is recompiling the data and
putting the new data into the context under the same name, the lists are not
being updated.

I place lists in the servletcontext via:

context.setAttribute("storeroomList",storerooms );

When the lists change I recall my cachelist method and the above line is
repeated. I thought that would replace the present list with the new one but
that is not occurring.

Is there another way I am supposed to be replacing attributes?

To test I opened up a web page populated with my list and then went to the
database and changed some values in the list. My program then caught these
changes, and repopulated the lists and then placed them in the context
again. I then opened up another window and the page was populated with the
old data.

Any help in this matter is appreciated.

Alex

How to access Action Mapping instance if session expires

[Puneet Vardhan]

Hi,
How can I access the action mapping instance if session is expired?
I have a global forward in struts-config.xml which points to logon page

global-forwards
forward   name="logon"  path="/logon.jsp"/
/global-forwards

in session expires  I need to forward to logon page 

something likeif ( session == null ) mapping.findForward(logon);

Is the ActionMapping object kept in session scope or application
scope?
Thanks
Puneet

html:link only uses the last param* attributes

[Peter Doyle]

When I do this

html:link page="/editLoginInfo.do"
  paramId="srcAction"   paramName="personalInfoForm"
paramProperty="personal"
  paramId="action"  paramName="personalInfoForm" paramProperty="action"
  paramId="personnelID" paramName="personalInfoForm"
paramProperty="personnelID"
  
  bean:message key="loginInfo.title"/
/html:link


The rendered URL is
a
href="http://192.168.0.190:8082/mm06/editLoginInfo.do?personnelID=1"Login
Information/a


If I change the order of the paramId's the rendered query string only
contains the last parameter specified.

I know I can use a hashtable of parameters, but I'm trying to get it to work
this way.


Cheers
Peter

what's the attribute name for a FormBean?

[Weining Qi]

Hi, all,

If I want to use bean:define to retrieve one property of current form bean as
a JSP bean(an attribute accessible to the remainder of the current page), how
can specify the attribute name of the form bean? I have tried the name from
struts-config.xml where I define the form bean, it is still saying: "No bean
found for attribute key xxx"(the name appearing in the xml file). How do all the
html form tags know the form bean where they find "their properties"?

Finally I have to use jsp.useBean to introduce the form bean before the
defining.

Thanks in advance!

Weining

Re: Template tags

[Cedric Dumoulin]

  Maybe your browser doesn't render correctly your page, due to a problem with
generated html tags. Check the source code of the resulting page : do you see
evidence of "missing" parts ?

Cedric

Olivier Houyoux wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm using the template library to create a dynamic template for index pages
 that share the same format (see below). One of the pages (menu.jsp) that
 compose the template has a form which validation is handled by two
 components : the associated ActionForm object for the simple validation and
 the associated Action object for specific business logic validation.
 If a validation error occurs, the request is redirected to the calling page
 automatically by the ActionForm (I suppose) or manually by my Action object
 (return new RedirectingActionForward("/index.jsp")).
 Unfortunately, a part of the index page content is then lost : only the page
 with the form (menu.jsp) is correctly displayed, the other parts
 (header.jsp, body.jsp and footer.jsp) seem to be ignored.

 What's wrong ? Is that a context relative path problem ? Any idea on how to
 fix it ?

 Here is my 'index.jsp' page :

 %@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/struts-template.tld" prefix="template" %

 template:insert template="/template.jsp" 
 template:put name="header" content="/header.jsp" /
 template:put name="menu" content="/menu.jsp" /
 template:put name="body" content="/body.jsp" /
 template:put name="footer" content="/footer.jsp" /
 /template:insert

 Regards,

 Olivier.

How to display odd/even rows using iterator

[Zeltser, Mark]

Hello,

I have the following code to build the table:

==
 logic:iterate id="exchangeRate" name="cache" property="displayRates"
  tr
td class="td0" align="middle"
  bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="currency"
filter="true"/
/td
td class="td0" align="middle"
  bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="rate" filter="true"/
/td
td class="td0" align="middle"
  bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="rateType"
filter="true"/
/td
  /tr
/logic:iterate

==

I would like to set different colors for odd/even rows. How do I do this?

Thanks, Mark.


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RE: iPlanet and Struts Error: 400 SC_BAD_REQUEST

[Anderson, Jessica]

problem solved.
my struts-config action didn't match the .do action on my link.
duh.
thanks for all who gave it thought.
:)
jessica

-Original Message-
From: Anderson, Jessica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:36 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: iPlanet and Struts Error: 400 SC_BAD_REQUEST


iPlanet users:
I've built my WAR file to include content, action classes, controller and
config files (I also have struts.jar, parser.jar, and jaxp.jar in
WEB-INF\lib), but i am getting the following error when clicking a link with
a

.do?[some parameters] extension.  

Error:400 SC_BAD_REQUEST
null

Maybe I am missing something?

Servlet 2.0 javadocs says that this error is thrown from service method:
"This method looks whether the request is a POST, GET, etc method, and then
calls the appropriate doPost, doGet, whatever method.  If the request method
is something it can't handle it sends a HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST
error through the response."

Is there some reason the service method of ActionServlet couldn't handle my
request?  The actual request looks like this:

[18/Apr/2001:09:51:24 -0500] "GET
/NASApp/bestTestWAR/district/jsp/maintainDemographics.do?action=maintainDemo
graphics HTTP/1.0" 400

i have the alias set up in the DD and it looks correct.  I have successfully
deployed the same example on tomcat and am trying to convert to iPlanet.

thanks in advance for your help.
:)
Jessica

Re: Update on caching lists.

[Jim Crossley]

Then don't call removeAttribute.  Just call setAttribute to replace the
value of your key.  Your app server's session implementation will (or
should) manage synchronization.  Of course, one or two of your clients
might get a slightly stale list, but you can't help that.  At least,
they'll never get a null pointer.

Alex Colic wrote:
 
 Oh,
 
 I thought about using removeAttribute() and then setting the attribute of
 the list again but I am worried about pulling a list out of the
 servletcontext just as a person might be accessing a page that needs that
 list.
 
 Regards
 
 Alex

RE: Oracle Servlet Engine

[Howard Moore]

Actually it may work. According to the documentation the Oracle Servlet
Engine (which is different to JServ) is Servlet 2.2 compliant so should be
able run Struts-based applications. If anybody does get something working I
would be interested in details of how they did it.

 -Original Message-
 From: Rob Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: 16 April 2001 06:27
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Oracle Servlet Engine
 
 
 No,
   And it will not work with 9i either. 
   Both use JServ which is a JSP 1.0, Servlet 2.0 container.
   However, I know 9i uses Apache which could then
   be modified to use tomcat. Oracle 8i may also
   use Apache but I am not sure.
 
 -Rob
 
 Michael Schommer wrote:
  
  Hi,
  
  we work with Oracle (8.1.7) in our company. Now, I want to 
 know if Struts
  works with the Oracle ApplicationServer.
  If anyone has any know-how with the Oracle Servlet Engine 
 and Struts or the
  Oracle 8i ApplicationServer I will be very happy for every 
 information send
  directly to my eMail-address.
  
  Bye
  Michael
 

Re: How to display odd/even rows using iterator

[Chris Butler]

I used a simple java/jsp hack to do this for something similar
(multiple columns for one resultset), but maybe there's a better way.
One thing I noticed is that bean:define didn't seem to like
an integer primitive as opposed to a String.

  %
 int rowCount= 0;
 int columnMod  = 0;
  %
  logic:iterate id="rowX" name="data" property="aCollection"
  %
 columnMod = rowCount% 2;
 rowCount++;
  %
  bean:define id="col2Flag" value="%= String.valueOf(columnMod) %"/

  logic:notEqual value="1" name="col2Flag"tr/logic:notEqual
td id="textsmall"bean:write name="rowX" property="someVal"//td
  logic:equal value="1" name="col2Flag"/tr/logic:equal

/logic:iterate

logic:notEqual value="1" name="col2Flag"
 td/td
   /tr
/logic:notEqual

chris

At 12:00 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Zeltser, Mark wrote:
Hello,

I have the following code to build the table:

==
  logic:iterate id="exchangeRate" name="cache" property="displayRates"
   tr
 td class="td0" align="middle"
   bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="currency"
filter="true"/
 /td
 td class="td0" align="middle"
   bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="rate" filter="true"/
 /td
 td class="td0" align="middle"
   bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="rateType"
filter="true"/
 /td
   /tr
 /logic:iterate

==

I would like to set different colors for odd/even rows. How do I do this?

Thanks, Mark.


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RE: How to display odd/even rows using iterator

[Christine Robb]

Hi, try extending the iterate tag and modify it to take in 2 (or however
many you want) stylesheet parameters.  Say styleGrey and styleWhite.  While
iterating through your collection use the different stylesheet attributes
and apply them to every other row.

I've got something that works similar to this so if you can't figure it out
let me know and I'll send it on.

Thanks,
Christine Robb
Programmer/Analyst
Pangaea Systems
PH: (250) 360-0111
FX: (250) 381-4306
www.pangaeainc.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


-Original Message-
From: Zeltser, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to display odd/even rows using iterator


Hello,

I have the following code to build the table:

==
 logic:iterate id="exchangeRate" name="cache" property="displayRates"
  tr
td class="td0" align="middle"
  bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="currency"
filter="true"/
/td
td class="td0" align="middle"
  bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="rate" filter="true"/
/td
td class="td0" align="middle"
  bean:write name="exchangeRate" property="rateType"
filter="true"/
/td
  /tr
/logic:iterate

==

I would like to set different colors for odd/even rows. How do I do this?

Thanks, Mark.



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Re: what's the attribute name for a FormBean?

[Ted Husted]

The form bean is created by the html:form tag, or by an Action class,
under the attribute name given in the config file. Are you looking for
it before it is created?

But, given that the flow has passed the html:form tag, or returned from
the action, and given something like 

form-bean name="logonForm" type="org.wxxi.gavel.action.LogonForm"/

then

bean:define id="username" name="logonForm" property="username"/

should expose the property logonForm.getUsername() as a scripting
variable for the page.

Weining Qi wrote:
 
 Hi, all,
 
 If I want to use bean:define to retrieve one property of current form bean as
 a JSP bean(an attribute accessible to the remainder of the current page), how
 can specify the attribute name of the form bean? I have tried the name from
 struts-config.xml where I define the form bean, it is still saying: "No bean
 found for attribute key xxx"(the name appearing in the xml file). How do all the
 html form tags know the form bean where they find "their properties"?
 
 Finally I have to use jsp.useBean to introduce the form bean before the
 defining.
 
 Thanks in advance!
 
 Weining

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Setting Select value= dynamically?

[dhay]

Hi.  Am aware that you can set value= on html:select tag, as "the value to
compare with for marking an option selected".  For example, in the code below,
to display "08" when jsp loads

bean:define id="dayList" name="LogFilterForm" property="days"/
html:select property="day" value="08"
html:options collection="dayList" property="value"
labelProperty="label"/
/html:select

Before this jsp, I am filtering some records and want to set the day to the
earliest one found.  How do I do this?
I set the value of "day" in my FormBean to the one found, but how do I get this
one selected when jsp displayed?
Do I need to use some kind of scriplet?

Many thanks,

Dave

Required vs. optional name attribute

[James Howe]

I apologize in advance if this topic has come up before, but ...

I'm building a Struts JSP page containing a form.  I've noticed that the 
HTML tags typically do not require the specification of a "name" attribute 
in order to retrieve property values from a bean.  If the name isn't 
specified, the property value is retrieved from the bean associated with 
the form.  However, logic tags require the use of the name attribute in 
order to retrieve a property.  Isn't there some way that the logic tags 
could look to see if there is a bean "in scope" and use that bean to 
retrieve property values from if no name attribute is specified?  The 
problem I have is this, I have a portion of a form which is common to more 
than one form.  I would like to factor out the common stuff into an include 
file of some sort.  However, the common stuff makes use of a logic tag 
(notEqual).  I can't factor out this code because I have to explicitly 
reference a specific bean name in order for this code to work.  However, my 
various forms have different bean names associated with them.  It's not a 
terribly big deal, but it seems as if the name attribute shouldn't have to 
be required if some sort of "default" bean is available for the page.

Thanks.

Error in comps-tutorial.war (Struts + Components + Orion)

[chris . chang]

Folks,

Anyone using components on top of struts? I got a problem when I tried to
execute comps-tutorial.war (tutorial from components) within orion.

Any ideas?  Pls c the attachment for error.

P.S.
I already moved the dtd files from struts.jar into the classes directory.

Thanks in advance!

Chris

=
Error
=

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Error - tag.useAttribute : attribute
'componentsList' not found in context. Check tag syntax

at
s1.struts.taglib.component.UseAttributeTag.doStartTag(UseAttributeTag.java:1
28)

at
/layout/vboxLayout.jsp._jspService(/layout/vboxLayout.jsp.java:43) (JSP page
line 10)

at com.orionserver.http.OrionHttpJspPage.service(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.xu(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.JSPServlet.service(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.d4.s3(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.d4.include(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.EvermindPageContext.include(JAX)

at
s1.struts.taglib.component.InsertTag$InsertHandler.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:6
50)

at s1.struts.taglib.component.InsertTag.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:291)

at
/layout/classicLayout.jsp._jspService(/layout/classicLayout.jsp.java:67)

at com.orionserver.http.OrionHttpJspPage.service(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.xu(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.JSPServlet.service(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.d4.s3(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.d4.include(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.EvermindPageContext.include(JAX)

at
s1.struts.taglib.component.InsertTag$InsertHandler.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:6
50)

at s1.struts.taglib.component.InsertTag.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:291)

at /index.jsp._jspService(/index.jsp.java:35)

at com.orionserver.http.OrionHttpJspPage.service(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.xu(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.JSPServlet.service(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.d4.s3(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.d4.s1(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.eg.s9(JAX)

at com.evermind.server.http.eg.dr(JAX)

at com.evermind.util.f.run(JAX)

Newbie Question - Troubles Running Struts on Tomcat

[Jim Bruno Goldberg]

Hi, people!

 I am beginning in JSPs, Tomcat and Struts now: please, be pacient. ;)
 What I do:
 Copy *.war files from struts distribuition into webapps 
tomcat directory
 Copy * from struts .\lib dir into tomcat .\lib dir
 Modify server.xml from tomcat to comunicate with apache.
 and try this:


darkness# ../bin/startup.sh
Guessing TOMCAT_HOME from tomcat.sh to ../bin/..
Setting TOMCAT_HOME to ../bin/..
Using classpath: 
../bin/../classes:.:../bin/../lib/ant.jar:../bin/../lib/jasper.jar:../bin/../lib/mysql_comp.jar:../bin/../lib/mysql_uncomp.jar:../bin/../lib/servlet.jar:../bin/../lib/struts-bean.tld:../bin/../lib/struts-config_1_0.dtd:../bin/../lib/struts-form.tld:../bin/../lib/struts-html.tld:../bin/../lib/struts-logic.tld:../bin/../lib/struts-template.tld:../bin/../lib/struts.jar:../bin/../lib/struts.tld:../bin/../lib/web-app_2_2.dtd:../bin/../lib/web-app_2_3.dtd:../bin/../lib/webserver.jar:../bin/../lib/xml.jar
darkness# Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/util/Map
 at 
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:236)
 at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.initServlet(ServletWrapper.java:298)
 at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.loadServlet(ServletWrapper.java:276)
 at 
org.apache.tomcat.context.LoadOnStartupInterceptor.contextInit(LoadOnStartupInterceptor.java:132)
 at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.initContext(ContextManager.java:227)
 at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.init(ContextManager.java:201)
 at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:156)
 at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:163)

darkness#

?
 Doesn't works.  I am missed something. Can anyone send me some 
lights? I didn't found a troubleshotting in no place
 Thanks for any help


CUL8R,[]s
Jim Bruno Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: Setting Select value= dynamically?

[dhay]

Have created a hack to do this, using

bean:define id="thisDay" name="LogFilterForm" property="day"/
html:select property="day" value="%=(String)thisDay%"
html:options collection="dayList" property="value"
labelProperty="label"/
/html:select

Surely there is a cleaner way to do it than this?!  Not least as I have to do it
 for month, year, hour and minute as well!
Seems like I already have "day" right there, but can't figure out how to access
it w/o another bean define.  What am I missing?

Thanks,

Dave

-- Forwarded by David Hay/Lex/Lexmark on 04/18/2001 02:04 PM
---


David Hay
04/18/2001 12:54 PM

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:

Subject:  Setting Select value= dynamically?  (Document link: David Hay)

Hi.  Am aware that you can set value= on html:select tag, as "the value to
compare with for marking an option selected".  For example, in the code below,
to display "08" when jsp loads

bean:define id="dayList" name="LogFilterForm" property="days"/
html:select property="day" value="08"
html:options collection="dayList" property="value"
labelProperty="label"/
/html:select

Before this jsp, I am filtering some records and want to set the day to the
earliest one found.  How do I do this?
I set the value of "day" in my FormBean to the one found, but how do I get this
one selected when jsp displayed?
Do I need to use some kind of scriplet?

Many thanks,

Dave

Iterate...

[Christine Robb]

Can anyone help?
See code below.  It's a very simple iterate.  
I have an html:hidden  form item called 'id'.
I want to set itemName (in the submitRollo tag) to the value of that id.
(it's a submit button tag)
Keep in mind this is in an iterate tag and that there will be many buttons
all with the same action and name.

Can I do something like '%= formBean.getter().nestedGetter() %'

I swear I've tried every combo and nothing works.  All I want is the primary
key of the record.  
Any ideas?


logic:iterate id="notes" name="clientNotesListForm" property="notesResults"

tr
tdbean:write name="notes" property="id"//td
html:hidden name="notes" property="id" /
tdcom:submitRollo fileName="button.viewNote1"  itemName="%= I
want this to be the value of the hidden 'id' form item%"
formName="clientNotesListForm" action="viewNote"
statusLine="status.viewNote"//td
/tr   
/logic:iterate 

Thanks!
Christine Robb
Programmer/Analyst
Pangaea Systems
PH: (250) 360-0111
FX: (250) 381-4306
www.pangaeainc.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Feature request

[James Howe]

I'm using the bean:write tag to add parameters to a dynamically generated 
URL used by some javascript on my JSP page.  The problem with bean:write 
is that it doesn't URL encode the result.  In general, this is probably a 
good thing.  However, there are times when it would be nice to have the 
value encoded.  Would it be possible to add an additional optional tag to 
WriteTag which would indicate whether the result was to be URLEncoded?  The 
default would be false which would not require any changes in current 
code.  Also, if there is an alternative way to get this functionality, 
please let me know.  Unfortunately I can't use the "link" tag in this 
circumstance.

Basically I have a line in my file which looks like this:

input type="button" ... onClick="self.location="foo.do?key='bean:write 
...'"

In other words, I'm building up the parameters to the location URL based on 
property values in a particular bean.

Thanks.

Problems setting form in session

[Eric Rasmussen]

I am trying to set a form bean in session so it can be used 
accross Action classes. Specifically, I am trying to get the form bean to 
remember a value so it can repopulate the jsp page accordingly when that page 
appears again (if the user hits 'cancel').

My assumption: that setting 
actionname="testForm" scope="session" ...  would put the form bean 
referenced by 'testForm' into session scope.

This assumption is either wrong, or there is a bug in struts, 
or I am doing something else wrong.

My struts config:
 form-bean name="testForm" 
type="[path].TestForm"/

action path="/test1"
 
type="[path].Test1Action"
 
name="testForm"
 
scope="session"
 
validate="true"
 
input="/[path]/test1.jsp"[forwards] 
/action

 action 
path="/test2" 
type="[path].Test2Action" 
name="[another form]" 
scope="request" 
validate="true" 
input="/[path/test2.jsp"[forwards] 
forward name="cancel" path="/[path]/test1.jsp"/ 
/action

Action test1.do loads first. A submit button loads 
Action test2.do, and it is in Test2Action that I attempt to recieve the form 
(testForm) that was supposedly put into session from test1.do.

I failed to figure out the name the form was given in the 
session, so I output all of the types of objects currently in session. 
Here is my code (in Test2Action):

 System.out.println("*** AttributeName List: 
***"); for(Enumeration e = 
request.getSession().getAttributeNames(); e.hasMoreElements(); 
) {  System.out.println("*** 
e.nextElement()=" + e.nextElement() + " ***"); 
}

And here is the output:

 *** AttributeName List: ***
 *** e.nextElement()=user 
*** *** e.nextElement()=org.apache.struts.action.LOCALE 
***

As you can see, the form bean was not put into session by the 
struts-config file (user we explicitely put into session). Either that, or 
I am misunderstanding something (it happens).

Could someone give me some advice on this?

 Thanks,
  - eric

how to use a select option with a property from the form bean?

[Roxie Rochat]

I would like to configure a form bean with a property that contains a
collection to be rendered as a select statement, but I can't get it to work.

If the options collection attribute is not specified, the docs say that you
can 
specify just the property:
"The value of this attribute is the name of a property of the
ActionForm bean associated with our form, which will return the collection."

What should this collection look like?  Can anyone point me at an example?

Thanks,
Roxie

Re: Required vs. optional name attribute

[Rob Leland]

James Howe wrote:
It's not a
 terribly big deal, but it seems as if the name attribute shouldn't have to
 be required if some sort of "default" bean is available for the page.
The original designers were probably trying not to couple the logic
tags to the html tags, or to struts itself.

The name of the current form I believe is kept in the request variable

org.apache.struts.action.BEAN

so you can always confidently reference that for your logic 'name'
value.


 
 Thanks.

Re: Problems setting form in session

[Rob Leland]

 Eric Rasmussen wrote:
 
 I am trying to set a form bean in session so it can be used accross
 Action classes.  Specifically, I am trying to get the form bean to
 remember a value so it can repopulate the jsp page accordingly when
 that page appears again (if the user hits 'cancel').



 As you can see, the form bean was not put into session by the
 struts-config file (user we explicitely put into session).  Either
 that, or I am misunderstanding something (it happens).
 
Before a form is reused it's reset() method
is called. If your form has a reset method
it will get called before it is reused in the
next request.

I usually rename my reset to resetNow(),
and manually do a resetNow() for a clean form.



 Could someone give me some advice on this?
 
 Thanks,
 - eric

Re: Problems setting form in session

[Eric Rasmussen]

Yes, I thought of that, but reset() is not being called (I put a println to
see).  Rather, a brand new form is being passed (which is correct if it was
at request level).  This is why I wanted to keep the old one in session.

- Original Message -
From: "Rob Leland" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: Problems setting form in session



  Eric Rasmussen wrote:
 
  I am trying to set a form bean in session so it can be used accross
  Action classes.  Specifically, I am trying to get the form bean to
  remember a value so it can repopulate the jsp page accordingly when
  that page appears again (if the user hits 'cancel').



  As you can see, the form bean was not put into session by the
  struts-config file (user we explicitely put into session).  Either
  that, or I am misunderstanding something (it happens).
 
 Before a form is reused it's reset() method
 is called. If your form has a reset method
 it will get called before it is reused in the
 next request.

 I usually rename my reset to resetNow(),
 and manually do a resetNow() for a clean form.



  Could someone give me some advice on this?
 
  Thanks,
  - eric

Actions forwarding to Actions

[Jim Crossley]

I think I found a bug or, as Larry Wall might say, it would be difficult
to interpret it as a feature.  :-)

I have an Action that occasionally needs to forward its request to
another Action.  So the forward element in its corresponding action
element has a path with a suffix of "do" instead of "jsp".  The
associated form bean classes for each action's form have a "name"
property, though this is purely coincidental.  They have no real
relationship.

Oddly enough, when Action X forwards to Action Y, the name property for
Y's form bean is initialized to the name from X's form bean!  Is this a
bug?

Thanks.

Re: How to run Struts in VAJ

[Bazoud Olivier]

VAJ 3.5.3 will be released next week.
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document4541

And WTE will implement Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1,
so it will work with Struts.

- Original Message -
From: "Kyle Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: How to run Struts in VAJ


If you mean VAJ 3.5.2 (3.5.3 has NOT been released yet) then the following
instructions should work. This is from an upcoming article on this subject
that I'm going to submit to the VisualAge developer domain website.
Warning!  This is a work in progress -- in particular I have NOT validated
that EJB's work as advertised...  Also, I obviously haven't attached my
application -- you'll have to wait on the article for that.  Finally,
PLEASE do not post this to other websites! Keep this on the mailing list
only.

However, I do welcome comments on the instructions.


Using Struts in VisualAge for Java 3.5.2


Since one of the requirements for using Struts is a JSP 1.1/Servlet 2.2
compliant Servlet engine, if you want to use Struts in VisualAge for Java
3.5.2 you must use the Apache Test Environment.  This can be downloaded for
free from VADD at
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4290?OpenDocumentp=1BCT=
3Footer=1
 (note that you must register for VADD (free) to obtain this download).
After running the Apache Tomcat Test Environment installation program, you
must load the Apache Test Environment Feature using the FileQuick Start
dialog.

NOTE:  I have NOT validated that EJB's work after you do this.  That's on
my to-do list for today 

Note that it is not possible to have both the WebSphere Test Environment's
servlet engine and the Apache Test Environment co-reside in the same
VisualAge workspace.  The following set of instructions (provided by Sean
Sundberg from the IBM WebSphere Services group) detail how to allow both
EJB development using the WebSphere Test Environment and Servlet/JSP
development using the Apache Test Environment:

1.   Start from a workspace that does not contain the Apache Tomcat Test
Environment.
2.   Add the 'Websphere Test Environment' feature.
3.   Delete the 'Servlet API' project from the workspace.
4.   Add the 'Apache Tomcat Test Environement' feature.
5.   Select 'Options...' from the 'Window' menu.
6.   Select the 'Resources' menu option from the pane on the left.
7.   Press the 'Edit...' button from the pane on the right.
8.   Press the 'Add Jar/Zip' button.
9.   Browse to the 'project_resources\Apache_Tomcat_Test_Environment\lib'.
10.  Select 'servlet.jar' and press 'OK'.  (This is required to generate
the EJB code.  The WTE requries some properties files from the servlets.jar
file.)
11.  Press the 'OK' button to commit the resource changes.

The Persistent Name Server and EJB server can then be started to access
EJBs.  Servlets can now be accessed using the Apache Tomcat Test
Environment Note that this procedure is also covered in the IBM Redbook by
Bill Moore, et.al.,  " Migrating WebLogic Applications to WebSphere
Advanced Edition", SG24-5956, available from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com..
Once you have verified that Tomcat is successfully installed and that you
can serve pages from http://localhost:8080, then you are ready to proceed
with the Struts installation.

/NOTE

Struts will require not only that you have a compliant servlet engine on
your classpath, but that also you have a recent version of Xerxes in your
classpath as well.  You can either download these files from the Apache
website, or you can simply install them from the VisualAge repository file
that accompanies this article.  Note that Xerxes cannot co-exist with the
version of the IBM XML Parser for Java that ships with VisualAge for Java.
You will have to remove it from the workspace as well before you import
Xerxes (I often import Xalan as well).

Likewise, you will need to either download and install the Struts framework
from the Apache website, or load it from the accompanying repository file.
The current version (1.0-beta2) seems to be more than stable enough for
most uses ? there are several production sites currently using it.

If you choose to load the projects from the accompanying repository file,
be certain that you have loaded all of the following projects:

(1)  ApacheStruts 1.0-b2
(2)  Xerxes 1.2.2
(3)  Struts Experiments [For VADD] 1.0

Next, you will need to take the employeelist.zip file that accompanies this
article and unzip it into the VAJ install
root/ide/project_resource/Apache Test Environment/webapps directory.  This
will place the JSP, resource and XML files where Apache Tomcat expects to
find them.  If you make changes to these files, you should be sure to
create an open edition of the Apache Test Environment project and release
these files into the project ? that will ensure that you can obtain your
files even in the case of a crash.  For more information on using this
feature, see [Sahu] or consult the VisualAge documentation.  In 

Re: How to display odd/even rows using iterator

[Ted Husted]

I like Christine's answer better, but here's a simple solution using
(ugh) a scriptlet. 

tr
% int i = 0; %
logic:iterate id="lot" name="rows" 
% i++; if ( i % 2 == 0) { %
tr bgcolor="#EE"
% } else { %
tr bgcolor="#FF"
% } %
td { columns } /td
  /tr
/logic:iterate

What I would really like to see (before I write it myself) is code for
using iterate as a pager. The hooks seem to be there.

-- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
-- Custom Software ~ Technical Services.
-- Tel 716 737-3463.
-- http://www.husted.com/about/struts/

Re: Error in comps-tutorial.war (Struts + Components + Orion)

[Ted Husted]

Yes, but I haven't tried it with Orion.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Anyone using components on top of struts? I got a problem when I tried to
 execute comps-tutorial.war (tutorial from components) within orion.

Re: Newbie Question - Troubles Running Struts on Tomcat

[Ted Husted]

You probably * don't * want to copy anything over from Struts except for
the WARs. 

Having the struts.jar on your classpath while running your container is
problematic (since it is also loaded from the WAR). 


http://jakarta.apache.org:8080/jyve-faq/Turbine/screen/DisplayQuestionAnswer/action/SetAll/project_id/2/faq_id/36/topic_id/203/question_id/776


Jim Bruno Goldberg wrote:
 
 Hi, people!
 
  I am beginning in JSPs, Tomcat and Struts now: please, be pacient. ;)
  What I do:
  Copy *.war files from struts distribuition into webapps
 tomcat directory
  Copy * from struts .\lib dir into tomcat .\lib dir
  Modify server.xml from tomcat to comunicate with apache.
  and try this:

RE: How to display odd/even rows using iterator

[Anthony Martin]

I'm sure I'll get to this in my project.  Why not make it a read property of
the bean?

protected String rowColor = "#FF" ;
public String getRowColor ( ) { return this.rowColor ; }
public void setRowColor ( String value ) { this.rowColor = value ; }

Then all you need is a way to change that value at the top of the
logic:iterate block by detecting the current state with a couple
logic:equal tag.


Anthony

-Original Message-
From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to display odd/even rows using iterator


I like Christine's answer better, but here's a simple solution using
(ugh) a scriptlet. 

tr
% int i = 0; %
logic:iterate id="lot" name="rows" 
% i++; if ( i % 2 == 0) { %
tr bgcolor="#EE"
% } else { %
tr bgcolor="#FF"
% } %
td { columns } /td
  /tr
/logic:iterate

What I would really like to see (before I write it myself) is code for
using iterate as a pager. The hooks seem to be there.

-- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
-- Custom Software ~ Technical Services.
-- Tel 716 737-3463.
-- http://www.husted.com/about/struts/

PAGE LINKING

[TIqbal]

Is there any simple example that shows how i can link page from one page to
another page.
e.g.

I have one jsp that shows user list

USER IDUSE NAMELOCATION
PHONE
===   == ==  
1TAHIR IQBAL TORONTO
416-246-7831   edit / delete
2CRISTINA ZANG NEW YORK
915-575-2356   edit / delete

I want when i click on edit the control should goes to editUser.jsp and
populate all the fields with the information.
I look at strut mailing example but that is to compleated for me to
understand specially Linksubscription / Linkuser tags.

Anyone can have good idea how i can accomplish this with simplest solution.

Thanks,

TAHIR IQBAL

Re: How to run Struts in VAJ

[Kyle Brown]

I agree that VAJ 3.5.3 will be released next week -- in fact I'm working
with an IBM internal beta now.  It should work with Struts, however, that
does not necessarily mean it will work with Struts :)  I'm going to remain
commentless until I prove that it works.  I'm working on moving Struts over
to VAJ 3.5.3 now...

Kyle Brown

BTW, It has been pointed out that the part I had not validated (the WTE/EJB
instructions I reveived from another source) conflicts with the instruction
to replace the IBM XML Parser with Xerces. If you do that, EJB's (actually
the Persistent Naming Service) do not work.  We think there is a way around
this that we're working on now...

"Bazoud Olivier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/18/2001 04:07:10 PM

Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:  Re: How to run Struts in VAJ



VAJ 3.5.3 will be released next week.
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document4541

And WTE will implement Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1,
so it will work with Struts.

- Original Message -
From: "Kyle Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: How to run Struts in VAJ


If you mean VAJ 3.5.2 (3.5.3 has NOT been released yet) then the following
instructions should work. This is from an upcoming article on this subject
that I'm going to submit to the VisualAge developer domain website.
Warning!  This is a work in progress -- in particular I have NOT validated
that EJB's work as advertised...  Also, I obviously haven't attached my
application -- you'll have to wait on the article for that.  Finally,
PLEASE do not post this to other websites! Keep this on the mailing list
only.

However, I do welcome comments on the instructions.


Using Struts in VisualAge for Java 3.5.2


Since one of the requirements for using Struts is a JSP 1.1/Servlet 2.2
compliant Servlet engine, if you want to use Struts in VisualAge for Java
3.5.2 you must use the Apache Test Environment.  This can be downloaded for
free from VADD at
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4290?OpenDocumentp=1BCT
=
3Footer=1
 (note that you must register for VADD (free) to obtain this download).
After running the Apache Tomcat Test Environment installation program, you
must load the Apache Test Environment Feature using the FileQuick Start
dialog.

NOTE:  I have NOT validated that EJB's work after you do this.  That's on
my to-do list for today 

Note that it is not possible to have both the WebSphere Test Environment's
servlet engine and the Apache Test Environment co-reside in the same
VisualAge workspace.  The following set of instructions (provided by Sean
Sundberg from the IBM WebSphere Services group) detail how to allow both
EJB development using the WebSphere Test Environment and Servlet/JSP
development using the Apache Test Environment:

1.   Start from a workspace that does not contain the Apache Tomcat Test
Environment.
2.   Add the 'Websphere Test Environment' feature.
3.   Delete the 'Servlet API' project from the workspace.
4.   Add the 'Apache Tomcat Test Environement' feature.
5.   Select 'Options...' from the 'Window' menu.
6.   Select the 'Resources' menu option from the pane on the left.
7.   Press the 'Edit...' button from the pane on the right.
8.   Press the 'Add Jar/Zip' button.
9.   Browse to the 'project_resources\Apache_Tomcat_Test_Environment\lib'.
10.  Select 'servlet.jar' and press 'OK'.  (This is required to generate
the EJB code.  The WTE requries some properties files from the servlets.jar
file.)
11.  Press the 'OK' button to commit the resource changes.

The Persistent Name Server and EJB server can then be started to access
EJBs.  Servlets can now be accessed using the Apache Tomcat Test
Environment Note that this procedure is also covered in the IBM Redbook by
Bill Moore, et.al.,  " Migrating WebLogic Applications to WebSphere
Advanced Edition", SG24-5956, available from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com..
Once you have verified that Tomcat is successfully installed and that you
can serve pages from http://localhost:8080, then you are ready to proceed
with the Struts installation.

/NOTE

Struts will require not only that you have a compliant servlet engine on
your classpath, but that also you have a recent version of Xerxes in your
classpath as well.  You can either download these files from the Apache
website, or you can simply install them from the VisualAge repository file
that accompanies this article.  Note that Xerxes cannot co-exist with the
version of the IBM XML Parser for Java that ships with VisualAge for Java.
You will have to remove it from the workspace as well before you import
Xerxes (I often import Xalan as well).

Likewise, you will need to either download and install the Struts framework
from the Apache website, or load it from the accompanying repository file.
The current version (1.0-beta2) seems to be more than stable enough for
most uses ? there are several production sites currently using it.

If 

RE: How to display odd/even rows using iterator

[Scott Walter]

Although I don't like to place Java code in my JSP
pages, this is how I accomplished this:

strutlogic:iterate id="row" name="list"
% if(index%2==0) { %
TR class="rowoff"
% } else { %
TR class="rowon"
% } %

index++;

/strutlogic:iterate




--- Anthony Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm sure I'll get to this in my project.  Why not
 make it a read property of
 the bean?
 
   protected String rowColor = "#FF" ;
   public String getRowColor ( ) { return
 this.rowColor ; }
   public void setRowColor ( String value ) {
 this.rowColor = value ; }
 
 Then all you need is a way to change that value at
 the top of the
 logic:iterate block by detecting the current state
 with a couple
 logic:equal tag.
 
 
 Anthony
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:07 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: How to display odd/even rows using
 iterator
 
 
 I like Christine's answer better, but here's a
 simple solution using
 (ugh) a scriptlet. 
 
 tr
 % int i = 0; %
 logic:iterate id="lot" name="rows" 
 % i++; if ( i % 2 == 0) { %
 tr bgcolor="#EE"
 % } else { %
 tr bgcolor="#FF"
 % } %
 td { columns } /td
   /tr
 /logic:iterate
 
 What I would really like to see (before I write it
 myself) is code for
 using iterate as a pager. The hooks seem to be
 there.
 
 -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
 -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services.
 -- Tel 716 737-3463.
 -- http://www.husted.com/about/struts/


=
~~~
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Re: How to run Struts in VAJ

[Bazoud Olivier]

It is true that patch 3 does not speak about change of version of XML parser
or
the introduction of JAXP in WTE. Maybe patch 4 :-)

- Original Message -
From: "Kyle Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: How to run Struts in VAJ


 I agree that VAJ 3.5.3 will be released next week -- in fact I'm working
 with an IBM internal beta now.  It should work with Struts, however, that
 does not necessarily mean it will work with Struts :)  I'm going to remain
 commentless until I prove that it works.  I'm working on moving Struts
over
 to VAJ 3.5.3 now...

 Kyle Brown

 BTW, It has been pointed out that the part I had not validated (the
WTE/EJB
 instructions I reveived from another source) conflicts with the
instruction
 to replace the IBM XML Parser with Xerces. If you do that, EJB's (actually
 the Persistent Naming Service) do not work.  We think there is a way
around
 this that we're working on now...

 "Bazoud Olivier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/18/2001 04:07:10 PM

 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 cc:
 Subject:  Re: How to run Struts in VAJ



 VAJ 3.5.3 will be released next week.
 http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document4541

 And WTE will implement Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1,
 so it will work with Struts.

 - Original Message -
 From: "Kyle Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:08 PM
 Subject: Re: How to run Struts in VAJ


 If you mean VAJ 3.5.2 (3.5.3 has NOT been released yet) then the following
 instructions should work. This is from an upcoming article on this subject
 that I'm going to submit to the VisualAge developer domain website.
 Warning!  This is a work in progress -- in particular I have NOT validated
 that EJB's work as advertised...  Also, I obviously haven't attached my
 application -- you'll have to wait on the article for that.  Finally,
 PLEASE do not post this to other websites! Keep this on the mailing list
 only.

 However, I do welcome comments on the instructions.


 Using Struts in VisualAge for Java 3.5.2


 Since one of the requirements for using Struts is a JSP 1.1/Servlet 2.2
 compliant Servlet engine, if you want to use Struts in VisualAge for Java
 3.5.2 you must use the Apache Test Environment.  This can be downloaded
for
 free from VADD at

http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4290?OpenDocumentp=1BCT
 =
 3Footer=1
  (note that you must register for VADD (free) to obtain this download).
 After running the Apache Tomcat Test Environment installation program, you
 must load the Apache Test Environment Feature using the FileQuick Start
 dialog.

 NOTE:  I have NOT validated that EJB's work after you do this.  That's on
 my to-do list for today 

 Note that it is not possible to have both the WebSphere Test Environment's
 servlet engine and the Apache Test Environment co-reside in the same
 VisualAge workspace.  The following set of instructions (provided by Sean
 Sundberg from the IBM WebSphere Services group) detail how to allow both
 EJB development using the WebSphere Test Environment and Servlet/JSP
 development using the Apache Test Environment:

 1.   Start from a workspace that does not contain the Apache Tomcat Test
 Environment.
 2.   Add the 'Websphere Test Environment' feature.
 3.   Delete the 'Servlet API' project from the workspace.
 4.   Add the 'Apache Tomcat Test Environement' feature.
 5.   Select 'Options...' from the 'Window' menu.
 6.   Select the 'Resources' menu option from the pane on the left.
 7.   Press the 'Edit...' button from the pane on the right.
 8.   Press the 'Add Jar/Zip' button.
 9.   Browse to the 'project_resources\Apache_Tomcat_Test_Environment\lib'.
 10.  Select 'servlet.jar' and press 'OK'.  (This is required to generate
 the EJB code.  The WTE requries some properties files from the
servlets.jar
 file.)
 11.  Press the 'OK' button to commit the resource changes.

 The Persistent Name Server and EJB server can then be started to access
 EJBs.  Servlets can now be accessed using the Apache Tomcat Test
 Environment Note that this procedure is also covered in the IBM Redbook by
 Bill Moore, et.al.,  " Migrating WebLogic Applications to WebSphere
 Advanced Edition", SG24-5956, available from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com..
 Once you have verified that Tomcat is successfully installed and that you
 can serve pages from http://localhost:8080, then you are ready to proceed
 with the Struts installation.

 /NOTE

 Struts will require not only that you have a compliant servlet engine on
 your classpath, but that also you have a recent version of Xerxes in your
 classpath as well.  You can either download these files from the Apache
 website, or you can simply install them from the VisualAge repository file
 that accompanies this article.  Note that Xerxes cannot co-exist with the
 version of the IBM XML Parser for Java that ships with VisualAge for Java.
 You will have to 

action.xml

[sampath kanakaraju]

Hi,
I am new to struts and was going thru the
documentation for struts 1.0-b1. I found that
action.xml file is no more necessary in version 1.0.
Could anyone please clarify with this. The
docuementation says that this file has been
deprecated. I am confused. 
Thanx for the information.
sampath

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Re: action.xml

[Marcile Moulene]

it's now called struts-config.xml


sampath kanakaraju wrote:

 Hi,
 I am new to struts and was going thru the
 documentation for struts 1.0-b1. I found that
 action.xml file is no more necessary in version 1.0.
 Could anyone please clarify with this. The
 docuementation says that this file has been
 deprecated. I am confused.
 Thanx for the information.
 sampath

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Re: action.xml

[Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee]

It has been replaced by struts-config.xml

-Deep.

 
 Hi,
 I am new to struts and was going thru the
 documentation for struts 1.0-b1. I found that
 action.xml file is no more necessary in version 1.0.
 Could anyone please clarify with this. The
 docuementation says that this file has been
 deprecated. I am confused. 
 Thanx for the information.
 sampath
 
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Re: Newbie Question - Troubles Running Struts on Tomcat

[Jim Bruno Goldberg]

At 16:24 18/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
You probably * don't * want to copy anything over from Struts except for
the WARs.

Having the struts.jar on your classpath while running your container is
problematic (since it is also loaded from the WAR).


http://jakarta.apache.org:8080/jyve-faq/Turbine/screen/DisplayQuestionAnswer/action/SetAll/project_id/2/faq_id/36/topic_id/203/question_id/776
 

 I try it, but doesn't work:

darkness# /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

Guessing TOMCAT_HOME from tomcat.sh to /usr/local/tomcat/bin/..
Setting TOMCAT_HOME to /usr/local/tomcat/bin/..
Using classpath: 
/usr/local/tomcat/bin/../classes:.:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/../lib/ant.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/../lib/jasper.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/../lib/mysql_comp.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/../lib/mysql_uncomp.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/../lib/servlet.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/../lib/webserver.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/../lib/xml.jar
darkness# Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

darkness#

 I delete all struts.jar on structure. :(((
 Any idea? Thanks again.



Jim Bruno Goldberg wrote:
 
  Hi, people!
 
   I am beginning in JSPs, Tomcat and Struts now: please, be 
 pacient. ;)
   What I do:
   Copy *.war files from struts distribuition into webapps
  tomcat directory
   Copy * from struts .\lib dir into tomcat .\lib dir
   Modify server.xml from tomcat to comunicate with apache.
   and try this:



CUL8R,[]s
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How to represent a table of select inputs in the ActionForm and in the corresponding HTML?

[Allamsetty, Venkata]

 
Is there a good example that I can use, to represent a table of select
inputs ?
I tried using a two dimensional array without much success.
 
thanks

Venkata Allamsetty 

Re: How to display odd/even rows using iterator

[David Winterfeldt]

What are you suggesting when you mention having
iterate work like a pager?  Do you mean having the
iterate tag call a method on a bean before or after it
iterates?  If the interface gave the bean a handle on
the environment then it could even a create a variable
that could have the row color.

David

--- Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I like Christine's answer better, but here's a
 simple solution using
 (ugh) a scriptlet. 
 
 tr
 % int i = 0; %
 logic:iterate id="lot" name="rows" 
 % i++; if ( i % 2 == 0) { %
 tr bgcolor="#EE"
 % } else { %
 tr bgcolor="#FF"
 % } %
 td { columns } /td
   /tr
 /logic:iterate
 
 What I would really like to see (before I write it
 myself) is code for
 using iterate as a pager. The hooks seem to be
 there.
 
 -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
 -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services.
 -- Tel 716 737-3463.
 -- http://www.husted.com/about/struts/


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Re: How to display odd/even rows using iterator

[Ted Husted]

Sorry for the confusion. My aside was off-topic and not directly related
to the odd/even question (though I ~would~ need to do both in the end
result).

I meant using iterate instead of something like 

 http://jsptags.com/tags/navigation/pager/ 

David Winterfeldt wrote:
 What are you suggesting when you mention having
 iterate work like a pager?  Do you mean having the
 iterate tag call a method on a bean before or after it
 iterates?  If the interface gave the bean a handle on
 the environment then it could even a create a variable
 that could have the row color.
 
 David

RE: Shopping Cart Example

[josephhakim]

Hi Stanley,

I was thinking of doing exactly the same. Although I am a struts newbie, I
myself am dabbling with such a task. I'd like to help in any way I can.


Cheers,

Joseph.


-Original Message-
From: Stanley Tan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2001 9:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Shopping Cart Example


Hi all,

I am building a shopping cart example using the struts framework for
beginner's like myself.  So far, I have a pretty simple shopping cart that
connects to a database.

Because I am new to this, I was wondering if any experienced programmer is
willing to review my work and help me improve the example.  This example
will be made available for newbies to the struts framework so your help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,


Stanley Tan


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html:form always wants form bean

[Vimal Kansal]

Hi,

I am having a strange problem.

I have an action nmapping defined as

  action path="/viewadminconfig" type="..."
 forward name="success"
path="/XDIViewAdminConfigForm.jsp" /
  /action

And then in my XDIViewAdminConfigForm.jsp, I have the
following :

  html:form onsubmit="..."
action="/viewadminconfig.do"



/html:form

When I request this,  I get the following exception :

"javax.servlet.jsp.jSpException : Cannot retrieve
definition for form bean null
at
org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag.lookup(FormTag.java:708)



Do I always have to associate a form bean with a form.


Vimal

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Re: autocomplete attribute for html form tag

[Eric Wang]

I think it is a good idea to have a generic attrbitue for the tag too.
Do anyone has any idea when when will this feature be in Struts?
Regards
Eric
Alastair Briggs wrote:

I think it would be a good idea to have this property
on all tags as this means that the system is able to cope with those demands
that are needed as things change. I get quite frustrated when using systems
that don't offer this sort of function as you then have to find highly
creative ways to get around the restriction - which then create other problems.
An idea like this puts less stress on getting release
out quickly as things can then be easily extended if there is some urgency
from the developer but can be included more formally in future releases.
Al
-Original Message-
From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: autocomplete attribute for html form tag
Something we could consider in the 1.1 timeframe is a
generic "options"
property that would just render non-standard options
verbatim. So in
this case we might have something like options="autocomplete=off"
in the
Struts tag, and then the tags would just append that
to the tag
properties, no questions asked. But I don't know how
you would do this
now, unless the property can also be changed via Java
or VB script that
you could call with one of the event handlers, or when
the form loads.
Eric Wang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering has anyone manage to turn off the autocomplete
feature in IE thru
> Stuts form tag?
>
> Currently I am using the Struts html form tag to come
up with the login form.
> As far as I know, we can have an attribute autocomplete='off'
in the normal form
> tag to turn this feature off.
> However, the Struts form tag does not support this
attribute.
>
> I am not sure will this attribute will be added into
the Struts form tag in any
> future release of Struts?
> Or anyone has done it in another way?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
> Eric
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-- Custom Software ~ Technical Services.
-- Tel 716 737-3463.
-- http://www.husted.com/about/struts/
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Re: Shopping Cart Example

[Jason]

same here. I would like to get involved in this also

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Stanley,

 I was thinking of doing exactly the same. Although I am a struts newbie, I
 myself am dabbling with such a task. I'd like to help in any way I can.

 Cheers,

 Joseph.

 -Original Message-
 From: Stanley Tan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2001 9:14 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Shopping Cart Example

 Hi all,

 I am building a shopping cart example using the struts framework for
 beginner's like myself.  So far, I have a pretty simple shopping cart that
 connects to a database.

 Because I am new to this, I was wondering if any experienced programmer is
 willing to review my work and help me improve the example.  This example
 will be made available for newbies to the struts framework so your help
 would be greatly appreciated.

 Thanks,

 Stanley Tan

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Re: switching between SSL and non-SSL

[Eric Wang]

Hi Ted,

I did a redirect instead of forward in the perform method of Action class.

String url = aMapping.findForward("somepath").getPath();
ActionForward fwd  = new ActionForward( url, true );
return fwd;

Regards
Eric


Ted Husted wrote:

 Any luck with this Eric?

 I'd like to do the same thing, a la auctions.yahoo.com

 Everything works if I hardcode the references, but then you end up stuck
 in SSL.

 I started a SSL FAQ, and would like to include how to do this too.

 

 
http://jakarta.apache.org:8080/jyve-faq/Turbine/screen/DisplayOneTopic/action/SetAll/project_id/2/faq_id/36/topic_id/213

 

 -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
 -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services.
 -- Tel 716 737-3463.
 -- http://www.husted.com/about/struts/

 Eric Wang wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  Has anyone done switching between SSL and non-SSL using Struts?
 
  My login page is using SSL. After successful logins, it suppose to route to a
  page that is non-SSL.
 
  Is there any example available for reference?
 
  Thanks in advance.
  Eric

i18n and performance

[jsmith]

I have a project where internationalization was a requirement.  For the 
most part, the page display speed is pretty fast.  However, I have one 
page where there are several bean:message tags and html:text tags 
etc.  This page tends to be slow when it is rendering.  It is compounded 
if I open more than one browser and try to hit the this page.  Has 
anyone else ran into this?  Does anyone have any suggestions on methods 
to speed this page up?

Thanks,

--
Jason Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Actions forwarding to Actions

[Jim Crossley]

Forgive me for replying to myself, but I think I may have figured out
what's going on:  the second bean is not populated from the first bean
as I mistakenly assumed -- it's populated from the request!  So, just as
the first bean got its name from the request parameter, the second get
its name from there, too.

Jim Crossley wrote:
 
 I think I found a bug or, as Larry Wall might say, it would be difficult
 to interpret it as a feature.  :-)
 
 I have an Action that occasionally needs to forward its request to
 another Action.  So the forward element in its corresponding action
 element has a path with a suffix of "do" instead of "jsp".  The
 associated form bean classes for each action's form have a "name"
 property, though this is purely coincidental.  They have no real
 relationship.
 
 Oddly enough, when Action X forwards to Action Y, the name property for
 Y's form bean is initialized to the name from X's form bean!  Is this a
 bug?
 
 Thanks.

Re: Newbie - Digester/Sax Parsing Error

[Martin Cooper]

You have to prefix the path to your DTD with "file:" to make it a valid URL.

--
Martin Cooper


- Original Message -
From: "Trevor Griffiths" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: Newbie - Digester/Sax Parsing Error


 Hi,

 I'm doing some simple tests and set up with Digester to get familiar with
it
 before starting in for real.

 The following xml produces a java.net.MalformedURLException error when
 digester.parse attempts to parse it.

 ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?
 !DOCTYPE request SYSTEM "C:\Documents and
 Settings\tgriffiths\Desktop\DigesterTest\digesterTest.dtd"
 request
 fruitorange/fruit
 vegcarrot/veg
 /request


 I've tried it with and without the DOCTYPE definition. I have
 digestor.setValidating(false).

 I haven't used digester.register.

 Any suggestions, corrections, etc.

 Thanks

 Trev...

Re: What is 'text' field for in html:option?

[Martin Cooper]

There isn't a 'text' attribute for the html:option tag. If it is
referenced somewhere, that would be a documentation bug - please let us know
where you are seeing this.

The documentation says: "The text displayed to the user comes from either
the body of this tag, or from a message string looked up based on the
'bundle', 'locale', and 'key' attributes."

--
Martin Cooper

- Original Message -
From: "Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:08 PM
Subject: What is 'text' field for in html:option?


 The struts document says that 'text' field is for: The message text to be
displayed to the user for this tag (if any)

 I tried to use the tag but it gives me error:"Attribute text invalid
according to the specified TLD"
 This is how I used the tag:
 html:option value="USER" text="User"/html:option

 Is my understanding of 'text' field wrong?

 -Nimmi

Best practices

[Ajit Joglekar]

What issues are there if i give access to all the jsp pages in an
application only through the action servlet? Is this a good practise to
follow?

Is there any collection of struts best practices somewhere?

TIA.

Ajit

input and output form in Action

[Gunnar Boström]

Newbie question.
Is the form parameter in the perform method meant to be used both for input
values and output values (from the Action)?

If not how do I specify the output form?

:-)

Re: Iterating through a hashtable of objects

[Martin Cooper]

You don't need the import, or the scriptlet, or the 'type' attribute in the
logic:iterate tag, and you should be able to use the 'name' and 'property'
attributes instead of the 'collection' attribute with a scriptlet. That is,
given what you said about your 'floorplan' object, the following should be
all you need:

logic:iterate name="floorplan" property="hotSpots" id="hotspot"
The top is bean:write name="hotspot" property="top" /
The width is bean:write name="hotspot" property="width" /
The height is bean:write name="hotspot" property="height" /
The left is bean:write name="hotspot" property="left" /
/logic:iterate

Hope this helps.

--
Martin Cooper


- Original Message -
From: "Narasimhan, Shyamala" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:02 AM
Subject: Iterating through a hashtable of objects



 Hi

 I am trying to iterate through the values of a Hashtable hotspots... below
 is the code that i am using to do this. I have floorplan in session scope
 and floorplan.getHotSpots() returns the hot spots. I know that i need to
 have HotSpotInfo bean in page scope but i am not sure that i am doing it
 right. kindly tell me what my mistake is. thanks in advance

 %@page import="com.data.HotSpotInfo" %
 .


 %
 {
   /// this is just a place holder in order to set hotspot in page scope.
 this is not the actual value in iteration...i know that this is not the
 right way to do it.
   HotSpotInfo hotspot = new HotSpotInfo(2, 400, 400, 30, 70, "green","");

   pageContext.setAttribute("hotspot", hotspot, PageContext.PAGE_SCOPE);
 }
 %


 .

 logic:iterate collection="%= floorplan.getHotSpots() %" id="hotspot"
 type="com.data.HotSpotInfo"
 The top is bean:write name="hotspot" property="top" /
 The width is bean:write name="hotspot" property="width" /
 The height is bean:write name="hotspot" property="height" /
 The left is bean:write name="hotspot" property="left" /
 /logic:iterate

 i find that it doesnt iterate thro the collection and only prints the
single
 value i created earlier in the page.