Re: [REFERENDUM] Struts is a Community
I would say we are both a product and a community. And in my opion this is a very good thing. Struts is a product because many compagnies build commercial web applications based on Struts. By searching one job-index here in Denmark I find several job-announcements which asks for Struts skills. These compagnies are not only start-up firms, but also firms like big insurance compagnies. So Struts is an important ram for open source in a commercial context. At the same time we are developer community by helping each other to get the best out of Struts and improving the product even more. Struts would be notthing without a community, but a developement community without a product would also be empty. So my +1 is keep up the good work for the produkt and the community. Regards Flemming On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:55:51 -0400, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of about 2a EST this morning, 134,788 messages were posted to this list. Even for five years, that's a lot of traffic! Most of those messages have been about users helping other users. Some others, often marked Friday or Beer have been about users entertaining users. :) And, occasionally, we have waxed introspective and discussed What is Struts anyway?. Some people have said that Struts is a brand that marks a product. Our benefactor, the Apache Software Foundation, calls Struts a Project. Project is a good word, but it's really a euphemism: Project is an ASF code word that means Community. From an ASF perspective, we're not here to build software, but to build a development community, and let the community build the software. We believe that great communities build great technology. Over the years, the Struts community *has* built some great technology. Aside from the Struts Action package, we've built Tiles and the Validator. We've built Bean-Utils and the Digester. And Collections, and File Upload, and Resources. And Chain. A good portion of all the components in the Jakarta Commons today is technology that Struts built. The technologies that Struts built are not just gizmos we use with our own controller or taglib components. Dozens of other software projects, and thousands of teams, use these technologies every day, whether they use our application framework or not. IMHO, this is what it means to be a community rather than a product, a people rather than a brand. It means that first we try to help each other, and then we try to package our solution to share with all comers. But, the map is not the land, and the solution is not the project. Since today is my birthday, I thought I'd take the liberty of calling for a referendum on a topic that is close to my heart: What do you say? Are we a product or a community? Here's my +1 for community. -Ted. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [REFERENDUM] Struts is a Community
I would say Struts is both a product and a community. And in my opion this is the great thing about Struts. Struts is a product because many individuals as well as compagnies build commercial web applications based on Struts. By searching one job-index here in Denmark I find several job-announcements which asks for Struts skills. These compagnies are not only start-up firms, but also firms like big insurance compagnies. So Struts is an important ram for open source in a commercial context. At the same time we are developer community by helping each other to get the best out of Struts and improving the product even more. Struts would be notthing without a community, but a developement community without a product would also be empty. So my +2 is keep up the good work for the produkt and the community. Regards Flemming On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:55:51 -0400, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of about 2a EST this morning, 134,788 messages were posted to this list. Even for five years, that's a lot of traffic! Most of those messages have been about users helping other users. Some others, often marked Friday or Beer have been about users entertaining users. :) And, occasionally, we have waxed introspective and discussed What is Struts anyway?. Some people have said that Struts is a brand that marks a product. Our benefactor, the Apache Software Foundation, calls Struts a Project. Project is a good word, but it's really a euphemism: Project is an ASF code word that means Community. From an ASF perspective, we're not here to build software, but to build a development community, and let the community build the software. We believe that great communities build great technology. Over the years, the Struts community *has* built some great technology. Aside from the Struts Action package, we've built Tiles and the Validator. We've built Bean-Utils and the Digester. And Collections, and File Upload, and Resources. And Chain. A good portion of all the components in the Jakarta Commons today is technology that Struts built. The technologies that Struts built are not just gizmos we use with our own controller or taglib components. Dozens of other software projects, and thousands of teams, use these technologies every day, whether they use our application framework or not. IMHO, this is what it means to be a community rather than a product, a people rather than a brand. It means that first we try to help each other, and then we try to package our solution to share with all comers. But, the map is not the land, and the solution is not the project. Since today is my birthday, I thought I'd take the liberty of calling for a referendum on a topic that is close to my heart: What do you say? Are we a product or a community? Here's my +1 for community. -Ted. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get the user locale from a jsp
You get the local object from the request with the getLocale() method.. --Flemming -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: delbd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:14:36 +0100 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: How to get the user locale from a jsp Hello How could i get the the user locale, as a page scoped bean, from struts. I know there is a struts util class to get the user locale, but i would like to get it without resorting to the use of a scriptlet. Is there a more elegant way of doing this? I need pass the user selected language as a parameter to a flash. Thanks. -- David Delbecq Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get the user locale from a jsp
Well, to be more specific on the question How could I get the user locale,.. Here is what I do in an applications which supports 3 language: 1) All incoming requests are filtered. If the session is new the browsers locale is investigated and stored in a session object alng with other values we need during a session. If the user's locale is not supported I store a supported locale and sets the Globals.LOCALE_KEY to this value, too 2) A user can change the language of his session during the session by choosing a link. This calls an Actio which changes the locale in the user session object and the Globals.LOCALE_KEY 3) During a session dates, currencies and so on are shown according to one of the supported languages. When we need to format in utility classes like various fileprinter we just fetch the locale from the session object. The application uses Tiles and this works well. -- Flemming -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: delbd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:57:11 +0100 To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: How to get the user locale from a jsp Unfortunately, this is the locale sent by browser only. Struts store the us er locale in session under the key Globals.LOCALE_KEY. There is a util class which get this info from session and, if this is empty, return the browser locale. So it is possible to programmatically change the user locale. Unless there is some magic filter in struts which alters the locale stored in the request object by copying the session locale into it, accessing ther request.getLocale() is of no help as end user can not change his locale by clicking on a link. So what am asking is , is ther a way to use that util class of struts witho ut resorting to the use of a scriptlet. Le Mercredi 9 Mars 2005 11:44, Flemming G. Jensen a écrit : You get the local object from the request with the getLocale() method.. --Flemming -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: delbd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:14:36 +0100 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: How to get the user locale from a jsp Hello How could i get the the user locale, as a page scoped bean, from struts. I know there is a struts util class to get the user locale, but i would like to get it without resorting to the use of a scriptlet. Is there a more elegant way of doing this? I need pass the user selected language as a parameter to a flash. Thanks. -- David Delbecq Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Delbecq Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Form autocomplete property
Hi List, First: I wish you all will have a happy 2005 with a lot of good Struts based applications! Now my question: The Struts html-tag library does not support the autocomplete property. Why not? I know that the autocomplete property is not in the W3Org standard, but that does not mean it is un-important to web-applications with on-line payments. The autocomplete property is an IE extension, but Opera and Firefox support it. However, Firefox 1.0 has a bug in its implementation, which you have to circumvent in a javascript in order to make it work properly, if you do not have the time to extend the Struts html-tag lib. I am asking this question due to these facts: Our team has just gone live with a Struts based web-application http://www.fisketegn.dk. The site runs on an Oracle Application Server and an Oracle Database. The customer is a department under the Danish Ministry of Food and Agriculture. On the site persons as well as certified shops can buy a public fishing license, since you have to buy a license in order to angle in the sea, lakes or streams in Denmark. Many people, for example turists, buy their licenses in shops, where many people have access to the same PC. So it was a customer demand to the application that we turned off the autocomplete function in html input fields, which take care of any login or payment functionality. In this case we were not happy to discover that the Struts developers have taken a rather puritanical approach to standards. So I hope you will improve this great API with better properties support in future releases. Regards Flemming G. Jensen -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setup Action without a form
Hi List, My project has a frontpage/welcome page. This page contains no forms. I need some kind of a set up action to fire, when a user accesses this frontpage in order to initialize a session specific bean. This bean is coded to act as a singleton within a session. How do I make a set-up action, which fires before the frontpage is loaded. The project uses tiles, so I assume that Javascript and some onload-function is not appropiate. Regards Flemming G. Jensen -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Form bean returns null in forward action??
Hi List, We are using the validator plug-in and tiles in our project. On a page I have 3 submit buttons in 3 different html forms. The first html form has a corresponding Formbean and an Action class. The second form has a corresponding action class, which does not use the form bean, and the 3. html-form has a corresponding ForwardAction. When a user submits some input from the first form the page is reloaded. Some informations from the this form are rendered in the second form together with radiobuttons, so the user can select items in the second form and submit the selected item. This action deletes the selected item in a collection. The 3. html-form is just a submit button with an associated ForwardAction. The ForwardAction has validate set to false. When one submits the 3. form I get an exception saying the form bean returns null for this action. If I configure the ForwardAction with the form, which is one the page I do not get the exception. This confuses me. Why do I have to configure the ForwardAction with the form bean? The form and the ForwardAction has nothing to do with each other except that they are on the same jsp page? Regards Flemming -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java.net exception when using ValidatorPlugIn
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:01:52 -0600, Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a rather annoying problem with the ValidatorPlugIn in a project using Struts: Can you look at this message (and its thread) and see if you are having the same problem? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.struts.user/96302 Thanks for the hit. We have upgrade to Struts 1.2 and use validator_1_1_3.dtd now. However, thiz does not solve the problem. A collegua has point out, that one can force the sax parser not to validate externally. --Flemming Joe -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java.net exception when using ValidatorPlugIn
Hi List, I have a rather annoying problem with the ValidatorPlugIn in a project using Struts: 1) I implement the ValidatorPlugIn as stated in James Holmes Struts. The Complete Reference (and several other places). 2) In struts-config.xml I have !DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC -//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd; 3) In the validator-rules.xml file and validation.xml file I have this !DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC -//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules Configuration 1.1//EN http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1.dtd; The reference http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1.dtd; is mapped to the validator_1_1.dtd in the application directory. 3) Running the application in Oracle OC4J at one site behind a usual Linux PC firewall works. 4) Remove the internet connection and rerun the application. Result: it fails when it loads validator.xml with a java.net.Exception: http.//jakarta.apache.org could not be contacted. Remove the ValidatorPlugin from theapplication and the rerun. Result the application does not fail. 4) Run the application from Tomcat 5.0 behind a rather restrictive firewall with ValidatorPlugIn enabled. Result: The application fails with a timeout exception from java.net because http://jakarta.apache.org could not be contacted. 5) Run the application from Tomcat 5.0 behind a rather restrictive firewall without ValidatorPlugIn enabled. Result: The applicaiton does not fail. 6) Put in a hard reference like this and rerun the application behind the firewall !DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC -//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules Configuration 1.1//EN /usr/local/Struts/dtds/commons/dtds/validator_1_1.dtd Result: The application runs. Conclusion: The mapping in 2) does not require the xml parser to validate the document against http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd but the ValidatorPlugIn forces the xml parser to validate the document against http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1.dtd So my question is simple: How do I configure the application server so it does not validate against the real dtd? Why is ValidatorPlugIn a special case in this context? Regards Flemming G. Jensen -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
