RE: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
BeanNameAware Interface to be implemented by beans that want to be aware of their bean name in a bean factory. Note that it is not usually recommended that an object depend on its bean name, as this represents a potentially brittle dependence on external configuration, as well as a possibly unnecessary dependence on a Spring API //where does your Bean class MyService implement BeanNameAware? public interface BeanFactory The root interface for accessing a Spring bean container. This is the basic client view of a bean container; further interfaces such as ListableBeanFactory and ConfigurableBeanFactory are available for specific purposes. This interface is implemented by objects that hold a number of bean definitions, each uniquely identified by a String name. Depending on the bean definition, the factory will return either an independent instance of a contained object (the Prototype design pattern), or a single shared instance (a superior alternative to the Singleton design pattern, in which the instance is a singleton in the scope of the factory). Which type of instance will be returned depends on the bean factory configuration: the API is the same. Since Spring 2.0, further scopes are available depending on the concrete application context (e.g. request and session scopes in a web environment). //where does you Bean class implment BeanFactory? //applicationContext.xml bean id=myAction class=com.vang.jake.web.actions.MyAction scope=singleton property name=verbose value=${verbose}/ property name=message value=${message}/ property name=myService ref=myService/ /bean package com.vang.jake.services; public class MyService { private boolean verbose = false; private String message = default; public boolean isVerbose() { return verbose; } public void setVerbose(boolean verbose) { this.verbose = verbose; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } } ? Martin Gainty __ Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene Empfaenger sein, so bitten wir hoeflich um eine Mitteilung. Jede unbefugte Weiterleitung oder Fertigung einer Kopie ist unzulaessig. Diese Nachricht dient lediglich dem Austausch von Informationen und entfaltet keine rechtliche Bindungswirkung. Aufgrund der leichten Manipulierbarkeit von E-Mails koennen wir keine Haftung fuer den Inhalt uebernehmen. Ce message est confidentiel et peut être privilégié. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire prévu, nous te demandons avec bonté que pour satisfaire informez l'expéditeur. N'importe quelle diffusion non autorisée ou la copie de ceci est interdite. Ce message sert à l'information seulement et n'aura pas n'importe quel effet légalement obligatoire. Étant donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:18:34 -0400 Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class From: vangj...@googlemail.com To: user@struts.apache.org roger, thanks for the steps. i went through each of those steps and made sure my settings/configurations complied. however, i still cannot initialize Action classes using Spring. as an illustration of the problem i am facing, i have created an example that you may download and verify for yourself that this does not work. http://www.box.net/shared/iycamr9uo6 this will download a zip file with an Eclipse project; unzip it. if you have Ant, you simply type in ant war and the war file will be created. if you have Tomcat, then drop the war file into the webapps directory (assuming you have Tomcat 6.0). if you go to http://localhost:8080/myapp/, you will see four lines displayed. String from Action: default boolean from Action: false String from Service: overwritten boolean from Service: true The first and second lines confirm that the String and boolean values are not injected into the Action class. The third and fourth lines confirm that the String and boolean values are injected into the service class. thanks. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:32 AM, RogerV roger.var...@googlemail.com wrote: Jake Vang wrote: If you want Spring to create your action class (as opposed to Struts creating them) then you need to define your action in the applicationContext.xml file. how do you do that? here's a couple of ways i have tried that do NOT work. 1) Add constant name=struts.objectFactory value=org.apache.struts2.spring.StrutsSpringObjectFactory / to your struts.xml file. 2) Add listener listener
RE: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; @Action(value=/spring-wiring) public String springWiring() { return SUCCESS; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } } My view or the JSP page corresponding to the Action is: /webapp/WEB-INF/content/spring-wiring-success.jsp. %@ page language=java contentType=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 pageEncoding=ISO-8859-1% %...@taglib uri=/struts-tags prefix=s % html headtitleTest Spring Wiring/title/head body s:property value=message/ /body /html My web.xml is setup according to http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html. My spring XML file (/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml) is defined as following. ... bean id=placeholderConfig class=org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfi gurer property name=location value=WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties/ /bean ... bean name=/spring-wiring class=com.me.actions.SpringWiringAction property name=message value=${message}/ /bean My /webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties file then has this content. message=dependency inject success when i start up tomcat 6, everything starts up correctly and there are no complaints. however, when i go to http://localhost/webapp/spring-wiring, the message that gets displayed is no dependency injection. is there something that i am missing using spring + struts2 (with the convention plugin) to use DI on Actions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; @Action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; �...@action(value=/spring-wiring) public String springWiring() { return SUCCESS; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } } My view or the JSP page corresponding to the Action is: /webapp/WEB-INF/content/spring-wiring-success.jsp. %@ page language=java contentType=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 pageEncoding=ISO-8859-1% %...@taglib uri=/struts-tags prefix=s % html headtitleTest Spring Wiring/title/head body s:property value=message/ /body /html My web.xml is setup according to http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html. My spring XML file (/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml) is defined as following. ... bean id=placeholderConfig class=org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfi gurer property name=location value=WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties/ /bean ... bean name=/spring-wiring class=com.me.actions.SpringWiringAction property name=message value=${message}/ /bean My /webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties file then has this content. message=dependency inject success when i start up tomcat 6, everything starts up correctly and there are no complaints. however, when i go to http://localhost/webapp/spring-wiring, the message that gets displayed is no dependency injection. is there something that i am missing using spring + struts2 (with the convention plugin) to use DI on Actions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail:
RE: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; @Action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; �...@action(value=/spring-wiring) public String springWiring() { return SUCCESS; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } } My view or the JSP page corresponding to the Action is: /webapp/WEB-INF/content/spring-wiring-success.jsp. %@ page language=java contentType=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 pageEncoding=ISO-8859-1% %...@taglib uri=/struts-tags prefix=s % html headtitleTest Spring Wiring/title/head body s:property value=message/ /body /html My web.xml is setup according to http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html. My spring XML file (/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml) is defined as following. ... bean id=placeholderConfig class=org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfi gurer property name=location value=WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties/ /bean ... bean name=/spring-wiring class=com.me.actions.SpringWiringAction property name=message value=${message}/ /bean My /webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties file then has this content. message=dependency inject success when i start up tomcat 6, everything starts up correctly and there are no complaints. however, when i go to http://localhost/webapp/spring-wiring, the message that gets displayed is no dependency injection. is there something that i am missing using spring + struts2 (with the convention plugin) to use DI on Actions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
by the way, which package is the @Autowired annotation in? using eclipse and code assist, i can't get it to show up. is it in some other jar file (it's not in the spring-core-x.jar)? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; �...@action(value=/spring-wiring) public String springWiring() { return SUCCESS; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } } My view or the JSP page corresponding to the Action is: /webapp/WEB-INF/content/spring-wiring-success.jsp. %@ page language=java contentType=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 pageEncoding=ISO-8859-1% %...@taglib uri=/struts-tags prefix=s % html headtitleTest Spring Wiring/title/head body s:property value=message/ /body /html My web.xml is setup according to http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html. My spring XML file (/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml) is defined as following. ... bean id=placeholderConfig class=org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfi gurer property name=location value=WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties/ /bean ... bean name=/spring-wiring class=com.me.actions.SpringWiringAction property name=message value=${message}/ /bean My /webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties file then has this content. message=dependency inject success when i start up tomcat 6, everything starts up correctly and there are no complaints. however, when i go to http://localhost/webapp/spring-wiring, the message that gets displayed is no dependency injection. is there something that i am missing using spring + struts2 (with the convention plugin) to use DI on Actions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; �...@action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; �...@action(value=/spring-wiring) public String springWiring() { return SUCCESS; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } } My view or the JSP page corresponding to the Action is: /webapp/WEB-INF/content/spring-wiring-success.jsp. %@ page language=java contentType=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 pageEncoding=ISO-8859-1% %...@taglib uri=/struts-tags prefix=s % html headtitleTest Spring Wiring/title/head body s:property value=message/ /body /html My web.xml is setup according to http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html. My spring XML file (/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml) is defined as following. ... bean id=placeholderConfig class=org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfi gurer property name=location value=WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties/ /bean ... bean name=/spring-wiring class=com.me.actions.SpringWiringAction property name=message value=${message}/ /bean My /webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties file then has this content. message=dependency inject success when i start up tomcat 6, everything starts up correctly and there are no complaints. however, when i go to http://localhost/webapp/spring-wiring, the message that gets displayed is no dependency injection. is there something that i am missing using spring + struts2 (with the convention plugin
RE: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
Yeah sorry, short on time here, didn't see your question at the bottom. Add the spring jar from the spring project. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:16 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; �...@action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; �...@action(value=/spring-wiring) public String springWiring() { return SUCCESS; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } } My view or the JSP page corresponding to the Action is: /webapp/WEB-INF/content/spring-wiring-success.jsp. %@ page language=java contentType=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 pageEncoding=ISO-8859-1% %...@taglib uri=/struts-tags prefix=s % html headtitleTest Spring Wiring/title/head body s:property value=message/ /body /html My web.xml is setup according to http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html. My spring XML file (/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml) is defined as following. ... bean id=placeholderConfig class=org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfi gurer property name=location value=WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties/ /bean ... bean name=/spring-wiring class=com.me.actions.SpringWiringAction property name=message value=${message}/ /bean My /webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.properties file then has this content. message
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
thanks. i won't go that route. i noticed your example (in the first response) and i realized that i may trying to push some business logic into the Action class. and, i don't think that's too good of a practice. i simply revised my Service class to hold these values (booleans, String, int, etc...) and now the problem goes away. it's a workaround. if anyone is reading this post and knows how to use struts2 (w/ convention plugin) + spring to construct Action classes, please let me know. the examples i've seen are only with struts1 (and though not too complicated, seem verbose with the xml). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Yeah sorry, short on time here, didn't see your question at the bottom. Add the spring jar from the spring project. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:16 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; �...@action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; �...@action(value=/spring-wiring) public String springWiring() { return SUCCESS; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setMessage(String message) { this.message = message; } } My view or the JSP page corresponding to the Action is: /webapp/WEB-INF/content/spring-wiring-success.jsp. %@ page language=java contentType=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 pageEncoding=ISO-8859-1% %...@taglib uri=/struts-tags prefix=s % html
RE: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
Oh, did you want your action as a spring managed bean? Ah I think i massively miss read you. You want to inject predefined values etc? -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:38 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class thanks. i won't go that route. i noticed your example (in the first response) and i realized that i may trying to push some business logic into the Action class. and, i don't think that's too good of a practice. i simply revised my Service class to hold these values (booleans, String, int, etc...) and now the problem goes away. it's a workaround. if anyone is reading this post and knows how to use struts2 (w/ convention plugin) + spring to construct Action classes, please let me know. the examples i've seen are only with struts1 (and though not too complicated, seem verbose with the xml). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Yeah sorry, short on time here, didn't see your question at the bottom. Add the spring jar from the spring project. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:16 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; �...@action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; �...@action(value=/spring-wiring) public String springWiring() { return SUCCESS; } public String getMessage
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
yes. precisely. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:41 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Oh, did you want your action as a spring managed bean? Ah I think i massively miss read you. You want to inject predefined values etc? -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:38 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class thanks. i won't go that route. i noticed your example (in the first response) and i realized that i may trying to push some business logic into the Action class. and, i don't think that's too good of a practice. i simply revised my Service class to hold these values (booleans, String, int, etc...) and now the problem goes away. it's a workaround. if anyone is reading this post and knows how to use struts2 (w/ convention plugin) + spring to construct Action classes, please let me know. the examples i've seen are only with struts1 (and though not too complicated, seem verbose with the xml). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Yeah sorry, short on time here, didn't see your question at the bottom. Add the spring jar from the spring project. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:16 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; �...@action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI on Action classes. the convention plugin makes life simpler (no XML), but also, partially because of little documentation, makes it uneasy to do certain things. i wonder if this is part of the reason why DI on Action classes using spring + struts is not obvious for me. Here's a simple code. This is my action class. public class SpringWiringAction extends ActionSupport { private String message = no dependency injection; �...@action
RE: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
Ahh hmm. You can use the autowired, You just have to declare you stuff in the spring xml. E.g. bean id=myJDBCString class=java.lang.String I think you can also use the @Resource anno as well. Can't think off the top of my head. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:44 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class yes. precisely. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:41 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Oh, did you want your action as a spring managed bean? Ah I think i massively miss read you. You want to inject predefined values etc? -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:38 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class thanks. i won't go that route. i noticed your example (in the first response) and i realized that i may trying to push some business logic into the Action class. and, i don't think that's too good of a practice. i simply revised my Service class to hold these values (booleans, String, int, etc...) and now the problem goes away. it's a workaround. if anyone is reading this post and knows how to use struts2 (w/ convention plugin) + spring to construct Action classes, please let me know. the examples i've seen are only with struts1 (and though not too complicated, seem verbose with the xml). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Yeah sorry, short on time here, didn't see your question at the bottom. Add the spring jar from the spring project. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:16 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; �...@action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2 + convention plugin with spring for DI on my Action classes? i have searched the internet but only seen examples using struts 1 + spring for DI
RE: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
James Cook-13 wrote: Oh, did you want your action as a spring managed bean? Ah I think i massively miss read you. You want to inject predefined values etc? If you want Spring to create your action class (as opposed to Struts creating them) then you need to define your action in the applicationContext.xml file. Regards -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/spring%2C-struts2%2C-convention-plugin%2C-how-to-%22wire%22-an-action-class-tp28545412p28546598.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
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If you want Spring to create your action class (as opposed to Struts creating them) then you need to define your action in the applicationContext.xml file. how do you do that? here's a couple of ways i have tried that do NOT work. 1. (normal, naive way that works for defining services) bean id=action class=com.services.MyAction property name=propertyA value=${propertyA}/ /bean 2. (in this case, we do not use the id attribute, but the name attribute) bean name=/action class=com.services.MyAction property name=propertyA value=${propertyA}/ /bean i've also tried configuring struts.properties to have the ObjectFactory use spring and this does not help. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
thanks. example please? (when you have time). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:52 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Ahh hmm. You can use the autowired, You just have to declare you stuff in the spring xml. E.g. bean id=myJDBCString class=java.lang.String I think you can also use the @Resource anno as well. Can't think off the top of my head. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:44 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class yes. precisely. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:41 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Oh, did you want your action as a spring managed bean? Ah I think i massively miss read you. You want to inject predefined values etc? -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:38 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class thanks. i won't go that route. i noticed your example (in the first response) and i realized that i may trying to push some business logic into the Action class. and, i don't think that's too good of a practice. i simply revised my Service class to hold these values (booleans, String, int, etc...) and now the problem goes away. it's a workaround. if anyone is reading this post and knows how to use struts2 (w/ convention plugin) + spring to construct Action classes, please let me know. the examples i've seen are only with struts1 (and though not too complicated, seem verbose with the xml). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Yeah sorry, short on time here, didn't see your question at the bottom. Add the spring jar from the spring project. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:16 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; �...@action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cook james.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 10:23 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class i am using struts 2.1.8.1 and the convention plugin. i am also using spring for dependency injections (DI). my question is if it is possible to to use struts2
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
Jake, the short answer to your problem is : use the struts-spring plugin ( http://struts.apache.org/2.1.8.1/docs/spring-plugin.html ). Include the jar for that plugin in your classpath, and Struts 2 will use Spring to manage the Action lifecycle, meaning you can inject anything the way you are describing it above (including String, etc...) Denis. Le 2010-05-13 08:09, Jake Vang a écrit : thanks. example please? (when you have time). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:52 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Ahh hmm. You can use the autowired, You just have to declare you stuff in the spring xml. E.g. bean id=myJDBCString class=java.lang.String I think you can also use the @Resource anno as well. Can't think off the top of my head. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:44 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class yes. precisely. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:41 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Oh, did you want your action as a spring managed bean? Ah I think i massively miss read you. You want to inject predefined values etc? -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:38 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class thanks. i won't go that route. i noticed your example (in the first response) and i realized that i may trying to push some business logic into the Action class. and, i don't think that's too good of a practice. i simply revised my Service class to hold these values (booleans, String, int, etc...) and now the problem goes away. it's a workaround. if anyone is reading this post and knows how to use struts2 (w/ convention plugin) + spring to construct Action classes, please let me know. the examples i've seen are only with struts1 (and though not too complicated, seem verbose with the xml). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Yeah sorry, short on time here, didn't see your question at the bottom. Add the spring jar from the spring project. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:16 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; @Action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers me is that it is not obvious at the moment how to simply inject strings or booleans into the Action class. it should be just as simple. upon analyzing what i am doing, and in light of what you said, perhaps i am trying to push some logic into the Action class that shouldn't be there. perhaps i should push the logic to a service class instead. in this case, this problem goes away. BUT, the question remains, how can i use DI with struts2 (convention plugin) and spring on Action classes? or can i not? if i can't, end of story. if i can, how? On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Hmm. I use the same combo. I found at some point I could jsut do public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyInjectedService service etc etc But I have started doing: public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { @Autowired private MyInjectedService service I am not sure if that alters the way Struts2/Spring does it. But it does make it a bit clearer to read. -Original Message- From
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
yes, i read the documentation for that before posting here too. it says to simply drop in the struts2-spring-plugin-version.jar. i already have that in /WEB-INF/lib. however, towards the end of the document, they are referencing how to initialize Actions from spring using struts.xml and applicationContext.xml. since i am using Annotations and the conventions plugin, i don't think this is what i am looking for. currently, my struts.xml file is 3 lines only! (minus the DOCTYPE lines). there are little but significant differences in how a struts2 based application behaves using the convention plugin (as opposed to using the traditional struts.xml file). i am committed to using the convention plugin + annotations and to avoid as much as possible configurations in struts.xml. if there is an example of how to get all this working (struts2 + convention + annotations + spring), i would be most pleased. thanks. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Denis Cabasson denis.cabas...@gmail.com wrote: Jake, the short answer to your problem is : use the struts-spring plugin ( http://struts.apache.org/2.1.8.1/docs/spring-plugin.html ). Include the jar for that plugin in your classpath, and Struts 2 will use Spring to manage the Action lifecycle, meaning you can inject anything the way you are describing it above (including String, etc...) Denis. Le 2010-05-13 08:09, Jake Vang a écrit : thanks. example please? (when you have time). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:52 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Ahh hmm. You can use the autowired, You just have to declare you stuff in the spring xml. E.g. bean id=myJDBCString class=java.lang.String I think you can also use the @Resource anno as well. Can't think off the top of my head. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:44 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class yes. precisely. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:41 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Oh, did you want your action as a spring managed bean? Ah I think i massively miss read you. You want to inject predefined values etc? -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:38 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class thanks. i won't go that route. i noticed your example (in the first response) and i realized that i may trying to push some business logic into the Action class. and, i don't think that's too good of a practice. i simply revised my Service class to hold these values (booleans, String, int, etc...) and now the problem goes away. it's a workaround. if anyone is reading this post and knows how to use struts2 (w/ convention plugin) + spring to construct Action classes, please let me know. the examples i've seen are only with struts1 (and though not too complicated, seem verbose with the xml). On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Yeah sorry, short on time here, didn't see your question at the bottom. Add the spring jar from the spring project. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:16 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class doesn't answer the question but thanks anyways. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM, James Cookjames.c...@wecomm.com wrote: Nope, no they are not in the xml for me. I use the @Service/@Repository annotations on the class, coupled with the component scan in the Spring xml. -Original Message- From: Jake Vang [mailto:vangj...@googlemail.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 11:09 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class well, there's something strange about struts2 (with convention plugin) + spring. if your action has a field representing a service, MyInjectedService myInjectedService, you just have to define that in the spring xml file. for example, your Action class looks like the following. public class MyAction extends ActionSupport { private Service service; �...@action(value=/dummy) public String dummy() { return SUCCESS; } public Service getService() { return service; } public void setService(Service service) { this.service = service; } } in your spring xml file (i.e. applicationContext.xml), you simply define a bean with the id=service. for example, bean id=service class=my.class.Service/ that's it; you don't have to do anything else. you don't even have to explicitly say (using XML) to inject this when you are creating an instance of MyAction. now when a user accesses /dummy, MyAction will be created and its service field will actually be injected with what is specified in the spring xml file. what irks me or bothers
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
Jake Vang wrote: If you want Spring to create your action class (as opposed to Struts creating them) then you need to define your action in the applicationContext.xml file. how do you do that? here's a couple of ways i have tried that do NOT work. 1) Add constant name=struts.objectFactory value=org.apache.struts2.spring.StrutsSpringObjectFactory / to your struts.xml file. 2) Add listener listener-classorg.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener/listener-class /listener to your web.xml 3) Make sure that you have the Struts2 Spring plugin installed. 4) Put something along the lines of bean id=myAction class=com.somwhere.mypackage.MyAction scope=prototype/ (The scope prototype is important otherwise Spring creates a singleton rather than a new action on each invocation which is what Struts 2 expects) and that should get Spring instantiating your action classes for you. Although I'm guessing from your response you've already got to that stage. I'm not sure that I understand what you are trying to acheive with bean name=/action class=com.services.MyAction property name=propertyA value=${propertyA}/ /bean If you're trying to inject another class, then the format is on the lines of bean name=/action class=com.services.MyAction property name=classA ref=classA/ /bean where you need a setter that matches the name parameter (setClassA(ClassA classA)) in MyAction. The ref value points to another bean id=classA class=com.services.classA/ HTH and I haven't completely misunderstood what you are trying to do. Regards -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/spring%2C-struts2%2C-convention-plugin%2C-how-to-%22wire%22-an-action-class-tp28545412p28547552.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
roger, thanks for the steps. i went through each of those steps and made sure my settings/configurations complied. however, i still cannot initialize Action classes using Spring. as an illustration of the problem i am facing, i have created an example that you may download and verify for yourself that this does not work. http://www.box.net/shared/iycamr9uo6 this will download a zip file with an Eclipse project; unzip it. if you have Ant, you simply type in ant war and the war file will be created. if you have Tomcat, then drop the war file into the webapps directory (assuming you have Tomcat 6.0). if you go to http://localhost:8080/myapp/, you will see four lines displayed. String from Action: default boolean from Action: false String from Service: overwritten boolean from Service: true The first and second lines confirm that the String and boolean values are not injected into the Action class. The third and fourth lines confirm that the String and boolean values are injected into the service class. thanks. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:32 AM, RogerV roger.var...@googlemail.com wrote: Jake Vang wrote: If you want Spring to create your action class (as opposed to Struts creating them) then you need to define your action in the applicationContext.xml file. how do you do that? here's a couple of ways i have tried that do NOT work. 1) Add constant name=struts.objectFactory value=org.apache.struts2.spring.StrutsSpringObjectFactory / to your struts.xml file. 2) Add listener listener-classorg.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener/listener-class /listener to your web.xml 3) Make sure that you have the Struts2 Spring plugin installed. 4) Put something along the lines of bean id=myAction class=com.somwhere.mypackage.MyAction scope=prototype/ (The scope prototype is important otherwise Spring creates a singleton rather than a new action on each invocation which is what Struts 2 expects) and that should get Spring instantiating your action classes for you. Although I'm guessing from your response you've already got to that stage. I'm not sure that I understand what you are trying to acheive with bean name=/action class=com.services.MyAction property name=propertyA value=${propertyA}/ /bean If you're trying to inject another class, then the format is on the lines of bean name=/action class=com.services.MyAction property name=classA ref=classA/ /bean where you need a setter that matches the name parameter (setClassA(ClassA classA)) in MyAction. The ref value points to another bean id=classA class=com.services.classA/ HTH and I haven't completely misunderstood what you are trying to do. Regards -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/spring%2C-struts2%2C-convention-plugin%2C-how-to-%22wire%22-an-action-class-tp28545412p28547552.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
Re: spring, struts2, convention plugin, how to wire an action class
My best guess is that the Action instance used in the web application is not actually loaded from the configuration in your applicationContext, but directly by Struts 2 (through the Spring Factory, but still Struts 2). That mean that you will have a bean named myAction in you application context, but that is not the bean that will actually be used by Struts to serve your request. Struts will create another instance, which won't have any of your configuration. This different instance is then autowired by type (defaut behaviour) which means your service (configured in your context) gets injected because it has the right type. I can't actually confirm that behaviour, but that seems like the likely explanation. I will be able to double check tomorrow. To check that, I can recommend 2 things : * Set the autowiring to be by name, create 2 beans named verbose and message, and see how that works * Leaving the autowiring by type, create 2 instances of your service, and my best guess is that Struts will crash, unable to decide between the 2 I think what your are missing is the fact that while struts uses Spring to manage the lifecycle of its action, it doesn't use the action defined in your application context, but will load its own instances, and autowire them. Denis. Le 2010-05-13 20:18, Jake Vang a écrit : roger, thanks for the steps. i went through each of those steps and made sure my settings/configurations complied. however, i still cannot initialize Action classes using Spring. as an illustration of the problem i am facing, i have created an example that you may download and verify for yourself that this does not work. http://www.box.net/shared/iycamr9uo6 this will download a zip file with an Eclipse project; unzip it. if you have Ant, you simply type in ant war and the war file will be created. if you have Tomcat, then drop the war file into the webapps directory (assuming you have Tomcat 6.0). if you go to http://localhost:8080/myapp/, you will see four lines displayed. String from Action: default boolean from Action: false String from Service: overwritten boolean from Service: true The first and second lines confirm that the String and boolean values are not injected into the Action class. The third and fourth lines confirm that the String and boolean values are injected into the service class. thanks. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:32 AM, RogerVroger.var...@googlemail.com wrote: Jake Vang wrote: If you want Spring to create your action class (as opposed to Struts creating them) then you need to define your action in the applicationContext.xml file. how do you do that? here's a couple of ways i have tried that do NOT work. 1) Addconstant name=struts.objectFactory value=org.apache.struts2.spring.StrutsSpringObjectFactory / to your struts.xml file. 2) Addlistener listener-classorg.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener/listener-class /listener to your web.xml 3) Make sure that you have the Struts2 Spring plugin installed. 4) Put something along the lines of bean id=myAction class=com.somwhere.mypackage.MyAction scope=prototype/ (The scope prototype is important otherwise Spring creates a singleton rather than a new action on each invocation which is what Struts 2 expects) and that should get Spring instantiating your action classes for you. Although I'm guessing from your response you've already got to that stage. I'm not sure that I understand what you are trying to acheive with bean name=/action class=com.services.MyAction property name=propertyA value=${propertyA}/ /bean If you're trying to inject another class, then the format is on the lines of bean name=/action class=com.services.MyAction property name=classA ref=classA/ /bean where you need a setter that matches the name parameter (setClassA(ClassA classA)) in MyAction. The ref value points to anotherbean id=classA class=com.services.classA/ HTH and I haven't completely misunderstood what you are trying to do. Regards -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/spring%2C-struts2%2C-convention-plugin%2C-how-to-%22wire%22-an-action-class-tp28545412p28547552.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org