Hi, I got exactly the same error in VAJ-Tomcat environment when I first time load my own project after running the struts-examples successfully. It turned out that Tomcat mixed up the property files that are loaded into its environment and could not figure out who is who. Fix: Leave only the project you are working with in Tomcat's classpath and projectpaths. For me in VAJ, I have to also delete the JSP compiled servlet project to clean it up. Hope it helps, Tony From: "G.L. Grobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Struts MessageTag.java not reading properties file keys Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:17:11 -0500 I've dug into the struts code and am posting this problem again w/ a little more info. I'm using Orion 1.4.7. 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 ... According to the above error and this snippit of code taken from the 4-20 tar.gz source, the properties file that my web-app is looking for is being found and all seems to be setup/configured correctly, else the error would be about messageTag.resources (not finding the property file). I've also included my properties (cais.properties) file below with this key included in it. The only thing else I think that can be wrong is the value of the args array just before the Exception is thrown and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what those might be. The line with 'String message = resources.getMessage(locale, key, args);' must be returning null and so this is giving me the above error, but I'm not sure what's being stuffed into it or where it comes from. Any help much appreciated. ----- MessageTag.java ------------------------------------------------ public int doStartTag() throws JspException { // Acquire the resources object containing our messages MessageResources resources = (MessageResources) pageContext.getAttribute(bundle, PageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE); if (resources == null) throw new JspException (messages.getMessage("messageTag.resources", bundle)); // Calculate the Locale we will be using Locale locale = null; try { locale = (Locale) pageContext.getAttribute(localeKey, PageContext.SESSION_SCOPE); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { // Invalidated session locale = null; } if (locale == null) locale = defaultLocale; // Construct the optional arguments array we will be using Object args[] = new Object[5]; args[0] = arg0; args[1] = arg1; args[2] = arg2; args[3] = arg3; args[4] = arg4; // Retrieve the message string we are looking for String message = resources.getMessage(locale, key, args); if (message == null) throw new JspException (messages.getMessage("messageTag.message", key)); ------ ~WEB-INF/web.xml ------------------------ <servlet> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>application</param-name> <param-value>cais</param-value> </init-param> ... ------ ~/index.jsp ------------------------ <%@ page language="java" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %> <html:html> <head> <title> <bean:message key="main.title" /> </title> ------ ~WEB-INF/classes/cais.properties ------------------------ # C.A.I.S. Resource Bundle main.title=CAIS main.master=Master View main.detail=Detailed View _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.