RE: Can't forward to a global-Here's the code in question?

Alex Session.isNew() only help to a certain extent. I would check for existance of objects that should exist in the Session. eg User user = session.getAttribute("user"); if (user == null) return mapping.findForward("logon"); Regards Michael Mok -Original Message- From: Alex Colic [ma

Re: lost form data when validate returns errors

Calling reset is a prelude to autopopulation. Unless the request is being redirected along the way, this should just put the same values back into the ActionForm. Reset must be called to ensure that the properties for some controls, like checkboxes, are set correctly. The default reset does noth

Re: lost form data when validate returns errors

>>I'm having the problem of losing form data when my >>action class returns >>errors. The error displays properly, but I lose all >>the form data. >> > Maybe there is an issue with the reset method in your > ActionForm? The validation error messages make sense? > If they do then the data is be

Re: Struts Design question - followup

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 22:37, Jon Wall wrote: > Hi Brian - > > Thanks for the responses. Some more information and > clarification... > > > Well, I put data type and required field validation > > only in the bean. > > I'm doing this type of validation on the client-side > in JavaScript already

Please Help with Iterate and Lookup bean value problem

Hi, I am iterating over a results set and instead of doing a I need to convert the property to something more meaningful. I added a method in my FormBean that will convert the value for me. But, I do not know how to properly call it. I have What I want to do is call CustomerSear

Re: Struts Design question

Jon Wall wrote: > > I've been lurking on this list for a while, and I > finally have time to look hard at Struts for a web > application that I'm working on. I have a coupla > questions.. 1. This first question I found reference > to in the archives > (http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jaka

validator info in jsp?

I am using the Validator included in the nightly builds and was wondering if anyone has worked out a way to reflect field depends information in the jsp? For example, I'd like to have required fields' labels in bold. Bruce -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional

Re: Struts Design question - followup

Hi Brian - Thanks for the responses. Some more information and clarification... > Well, I put data type and required field validation > only in the bean. I'm doing this type of validation on the client-side in JavaScript already. I prefer to keep it here as it's not too much work and it's mu

Re: Struts Design question

Let me try to venture a few responses... > But my beans already contain the validation! Besides, performing the validation in the ActionForm is effectively tying business logic (data validation) to the web framework dontya think? Well, I put data type and required field validation only in the b

RE: File upload facility / file manager example app

You may find the resources here of interest: http://www.webdav.org/projects/#opensource Gavin Terrill CTO, Karora Technologies Inc. http://www.karora.com -Original Message- From: John McClain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

RE: Best Struts Web Server

John, Unfortunately, Orion it the one app server that I have the least experience with. So, I don't want to make statement that might not be accurate. However, I will stand by resin. I think it is great and it has cut our development time down so much because 1) it complies the jsp and servlet

Struts Design question

I've been lurking on this list for a while, and I finally have time to look hard at Struts for a web application that I'm working on. I have a coupla questions.. 1. This first question I found reference to in the archives (http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg18281.html) b

Re: Disassemble Xml File

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Sébastien Le Fustec wrote: > Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:36:38 +0100 > From: Sébastien Le Fustec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: struts-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > struts dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Disassemble Xml F

Nested iteration with html:link

Here's a simple one from a newbie: The html:link tag suggests that if you wish to pass more than one request parameter these should be placed in a java.util.Map I have a logic:iterate which is nested in an outer logic:iterate. In the inner iteration block I need to provide a link which will uniq

RE: File upload facility / file manager example app

If you mean "multipart form handler" when you say "file upload facility", here's a few: The MultipartIterator class, which comes with Struts, you can use to handle multipart (file upload) posts from forms (this comes out of the javadoc for Struts): http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api-1.0/org/apa

Re: Best Struts Web Server

Jason (or anyone else that has experience w/ both), How would you rate resin to orion? I've done minor playing w/ Orion, but haven't had the opp. to use it in a project as of yet. Haven't touched resin yet. Performance benchmarks I saw a while back put Orion and Resin in the same overall perfo

File upload facility / file manager example app

Does anyone out there know of an opensource, java based file upload facility or file manager app ??? John McClain 7604 Muschetto Ct. Citrus Heights, CA. 95621 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (916)728-5223

Re: Best Struts Web Server

Subject: Re: Best Struts Web Server From: Vic Cekvenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === OrionServer.com I think is good. It auto reloads changes to class and XML files, it has great debug support and is J2EE. Vic Robert J. Sanford, Jr. wrote: >>jetty is better than resin? >> > > define "better". > >

Re: Best Struts Web Server

OrionServer.com I think is good. It auto reloads changes to class and XML files, it has great debug support and is J2EE. Vic Robert J. Sanford, Jr. wrote: >>jetty is better than resin? >> > > define "better". > > both jetty and jboss are open source if that is important to you (i assume > it

RE: Reloadable Class

I've created a simple ant task to automate the reload. Use it if you like. Rob Stokes -Original Message- From: Knee, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:47 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Reloadable Class This works like a champ!

Re: lost form data when validate returns errors

Dan Tanner wrote: > > I'm having the problem of losing form data when my action class returns > errors. The error displays properly, but I lose all the form data. If you are talking about form data that is generated by an Action, and not passed back through the HTTP request, then you may need t

Re: lost form data when validate returns errors

--- Dan Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having the problem of losing form data when my > action class returns > errors. The error displays properly, but I lose all > the form data. Maybe there is an issue with the reset method in your ActionForm? The validation error messages make sens

RE: lost form data when validate returns errors

my two cents is instance of the view(value object) which is used to populate the form had gone in the request scope after form validation, because the validate() is called before the action class instance is created. Hmm... try set the view in session however be careful remember to reset the view.

File Upload For BLOBs

Does anyone have a simple example of using Struts FormFile (html:file) tag to upload a file into a BLOB data field? I don't need a CLOB example, but a BLOB example - preferably using Oracle, but any database example should help overcome this problem I am having. Thank You In Advance. -- To unsub

lost form data when validate returns errors

I'm having the problem of losing form data when my action class returns errors. The error displays properly, but I lose all the form data. Looking at older posts, I've seen the same problem, but haven't seen a fix or workaround yet. I've included the relevant code snippets. Also, I like the

RE: Action an overkill ??

Just to clarify my previous post. By "user's experience" I mean how the user interacts with the application. A user can have a positive experience if the application is intuitive and responsive. But the user's experience is likely to be negative if the application is slow or hard to use. This

RE: Best Struts Web Server

I have investigated many app servers and I have found no of them can even compare to resin, it is by far the best. And, if you happen to find a bug, Scott will usually fix it within a couple of days or you can fix it yourself since you have the code. -Original Message- From: a b [mailto

Re: Producing alternating background colours in struts in a table

This is nice. RowTag (ZIP file for download) - Source for a Struts-compatible tag to generate alternating row colors in a table by Niall Pemberton. [NOTE: Requires a Struts build dated after 2001-04-28] http://www.husted.com/struts/resources.htm#taglibs David --- Struts Newsgroup <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Action an overkill ??

who the heck is Bob? from reading the comments that you attribute to him i assume you mean me but my name is Robert - it even says so in my email address and my initials at the bottom of my emails don't begin with the letter 'b' either. rjsjr > -Original Message- > From: Trieu, Danny [ma

RE: Action an overkill ??

like i said, i think that we have some friendly disagreement... > I'd say that displaying the rows in alternating colors > is a function of the presentation. > > But what order the rows are given is business logic, > and should be part of the business API. > > Ordering rows one way or another

RE: Action an overkill ??

Hello all, I only read up to Ted email, but I think I have enough understanding to give in some though. First of all, I am not quite understand what Nathan mean by 'user's experience'. Second, I do not agree with Bob on having to treate the browser base application the same as window base appl

struts-example and startup problems

Folks, Did a lot of searching and couldn't find an answer to this one. I'm running Struts 1.0 on Tomcat 4.0 on Win2k. When I startup tomcat, I get the following error from the struts-example app: javax.servlet.ServletException: Parsing error processing resource path /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml

RE: Action an overkill ??

I have to agree with Robert on this issue. In the application I am currently writing, we have decided to do some of the tasks that need to be more interactive with JavaScript simply because it is faster and smoother to do it in the client then make another server call. It boils down to improving

Re: action chaining without resetting action forms

"Cakalic, James P." wrote: > Okay. Sounds like an interesting possibility. I guess I should > monitor the Velocity site/mail list for this announcement? > Thanks again. I'm sure I would bring it up here. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services. -

Re: Action an overkill ??

"Robert J. Sanford, Jr." wrote: > i agree with that but i think we might have some friendly > disagreement as to what constitutes business logic and > what doesn't. the original topic of this thread was sorting > and the concern that hitting an action bean and/or jsp was > too heavy. my personal o

Transaction Token without a struts form?

All, I am working on implementing transaction token so my app can handle when the user click the back button on the web browser. Our application doesn't always use a struts form because we often have to display unknowen number of rows of data, so that doesn't map well to a form bean. So sen

RE: action chaining without resetting action forms

Ted Husted wrote: > Personally, I'd think in terms of putting whatever you have > in mind for an Action into a servlet, so that it is not coupled > directly with Struts. > > I have been working with the Velocity team on finishing the work > Geir started last spring. We should have an improved

Re: Best Struts Web Server

Resin is a real pleasure to develop with. The JSP error messages actually make sense! It has worked well for me in production, but only a few thousand visitors a day for a limited time. (Special event.) Resin now powers JGuru - www.jguru.com -- which at this point is as all Java site. They have

RE: Best Struts Web Server

> jetty is better than resin? define "better". both jetty and jboss are open source if that is important to you (i assume it is since you are using struts) whereas resin requires licensing fees starting at $500/server. both jetty and resin have both demonstrated high performance as both web ser

Re: action chaining without resetting action forms

"Cakalic, James P." wrote: > Now my intent would be that ViewActions are not typically the direct targets > of posts. They are only ever forward targets from other Actions. As a > consequence, I would not specify an ActionForm in the mapping for a > ViewAction. If I understand your comments correc

Using Microsoft Web Stress Tool

I downloaded this free tool from microsoft to stress test my Struts application. The tool is quite good, except that the documentation sucks. I have a Struts based application where I am using org.apache.struts.HTML.token used in each POST request which is obviously unique, Would anybody out ther

Re: Best Struts Web Server

> I thought tomcat sucks > > Still the best one is Tomcat 3.2.3 on OpenVMS. > > > > This is, and will be, the only real environment > > for high-end applications. Now that we have sunk down to the level of platitudes and name calling, reminder that ONLY facts matter here. 1. How much speed/featu

Re: Best Struts Web Server

Pete was right.. I needed to specify. I'm looking for high-end, high-load. 1 million hits a day on a server that implements a lot of JSP tags. Somehow I don't think Tomcat's going to do that (nor do I think my management is going to like using a server that doesn't have technical support :). Br

RE: Problem using toScope parameter

Thanks - the real issue is that the Collections are added to scope in the action class. When validation fails on the form bean, the action class (I think) is bypassed and so the Collection are not re-added to the request and go out of scope. I thought the bean define tag would do the trick, but it

RE: Best Struts Web Server

I thought tomcat sucks --- Thomas Zettelmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still the best one is Tomcat 3.2.3 on OpenVMS. > > This is, and will be, the only real environment > for high-end applications. > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: a b [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Frei

RE: Best Struts Web Server

Still the best one is Tomcat 3.2.3 on OpenVMS. This is, and will be, the only real environment for high-end applications. > -Original Message- > From: a b [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Freitag, 07. Dezember 2001 17:46 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Best Struts Web

RE: Reloadable Class

This works like a champ! Thanks, Chris! (This method is much better than bouncing the enter servlet container.) += Jeff Knee > -Original Message- > From: Chris Birch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:38 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Rel

RE: Best Struts Web Server

jetty is better than resin? --- "Robert J. Sanford, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://jetty.mortbay.com > > http://www.jboss.org (jboss + jetty) > > rjsjr > > > -Original Message- > > From: Pete Carapetyan > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:27 AM

Re: Producing alternating background colours in struts in a table

Subject: Re: Producing alternating background colours in struts in a table From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dalibor42) === [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I have a list I am printing out and would like to alternate the >background colour between each item in the list between light blu

RE: Best Struts Web Server

http://jetty.mortbay.com http://www.jboss.org (jboss + jetty) rjsjr > -Original Message- > From: Pete Carapetyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:27 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Best Struts Web Server > > > > What is your experience wi

RE: Reloadable Class

Jeff, As you're are using Tomcat4 you can reload a web apps context using the built-in Tomcat management web app. If your web-apps context is /myWebApp/ Simply enter http://localhost:8080/manager/reload?path=/myWebApp This should return a simple string that tells you your context has been relo

RE: action chaining without resetting action forms

Thanks for your response, Ted. I (or another developer on my team) will be driving a spike on this in the next few days but I wanted to parrot back what I understood for confirmation. Assume that I cleanly separate the intent of my actions into RequestAction and ViewAction. The mappings for Reque

Re: Best Struts Web Server

> What is your experience with the Web server you are currently using to run > Struts? Does it handle pages with a large number of tags well? Have you > had to discard a certain server because of a problem in favor of another? > Any comments appreciated... You really need to qualify your marke

RE: Action an overkill ??

> there's a big difference between an application that > is based for use over a network by multiple users > and an application that runs entirely locally. > > in the regard you describe, there is every reason to > do that on the client, particularly since all the > data exists on the client to b

RE: Reloadable Class

Keith, Well... I had hoped that doing a admin/reload.do would do what I wanted but it doesn't seem to. This just seems to reload the mappings without loading the new class files. Here is an example: * I have my web-app running and I'm testing. * Close the browser window (or not) * I make a cha

Best Struts Web Server

All, What is your experience with the Web server you are currently using to run Struts? Does it handle pages with a large number of tags well? Have you had to discard a certain server because of a problem in favor of another? Any comments appreciated... Thanks, Brian -- To unsubscribe, e-ma

struts-user@jakarta.apache.org

Hi Dirk, I use struts 1.0 with jboss so I have no experience with any of the new features. Your struts-config.xml looks fine to me. Had you been able to run any of the struts example WARs ? Their struts-config.xml might be more basic. A different approach might also be to remove everything but

RE: Action an overkill ??

there's a big difference between an application that is based for use over a network by multiple users and an application that runs entirely locally. in the regard you describe, there is every reason to do that on the client, particularly since all the data exists on the client to begin with. bu

Disassemble Xml File

Hello, We would like to disassemble xml file (like Validation.xml, or struts-config.xml) in multiple Xml file we include through Xml tags in the validation file. It is possible ? Sincerly, Sebastien Le Fustec 05 62 74 47 23 __ Do You Yahoo!? Se

RE: Action an overkill ??

think about using an application, a spreadsheet for example, within your favorite windowing system (beos, macos, x, win32, etc.). if you want to sort the data in your favorite spreadsheet and you see the entire screen go blank, wait just a second and then have the data pop up or do you want to hav

RE: Can't forward to a global-Here's the code in question?

Here the action class, slightly abbreviated. package com.popware.rd.viPro.action; public class viInvoiceSummaryAction extends Action { private static final Category cat=Category.getInstance(viInvoiceSummaryAction.class.getName()); private HttpSession session; private ActionErrors errors=

RE: Reloadable Class

Jeff, If your web-app is localhost:8080/my-app/ localhost:8080/my-app/admin/reolad.do causes your struts-config to be reloaded by the ActionServlet - is that what you want? Keith. --- "Knee, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > For me (with Tomcat4), this doesn't seem to help... > I wa

struts-user@jakarta.apache.org

Hi, I use struts from the nighly build of 04.11.200 and JBoss 2.2.2&Tomcat3.2.2. In my WEB-INF/lib I have the following jars struts.jar tiles.jar commons-beanutils.jar commons-collections.jar commons-digester.jar and ant.jar xerces.jar jndi.jar jdbc2_0-stdext.jar If I start it with that Strut

struts-user@jakarta.apache.org

although i wasn't using struts, i've gotten this to work with no such effort at all (using servlets and jetty, not to mention perl/cgi etc.). basically, i defined a path for a servlet in web.xml, and anything after that path, the server placed in pathinfo. i can provide examples if anyone would

RE: Action an overkill ??

We've followed the Session Facade design pattern, where the action classes handle the interaction between the GUI and our core business logic; somewhat of a sub-controller for the given GUIs to control how we get/put/update/calc data between our Session Beans and our Forms. In addition, the Actio

Re: Action an overkill ??

The Action would call the business logic, as opposed to the view. The actual code resides in the business layer, but there would be a method call in the Action. People have been known to code the actual business logic into an Action, but have usually lived to regret it. If data were stored in a

Re: action chaining without resetting action forms

This is the same as my ActionMultiplexer thing that I wrote. Basically I have created a DefaultActionForm class with a `action' property. Ditto created `AppBaseAction' and `AppActionServlet' and these two know about each other. The way Struts 1.0 is that the ActionForm bean is populated from re

RE: Mapped properties

Ted, Your answer is correct, that should work for him. Fr. -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 December 2001 11:59 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Mapped properties Rey, Is my answer here correct? http://jguru.com/forums/view.jsp?EID=56

Re: Action an overkill ??

i was a little confused about your original post on this subject, but then your followup seemed to confuse me more. your original post on this subject seems to imply there is an additional layer, distinct from the Action, where business logic should reside. then, your follow up seems to confirm

Re: Action an overkill ??

Martin Fowler tells a good story about the Chrysler payroll system. After spending some time noodling what was probably needed fixing, Kent Beck broke out a profiler. Turned out the real problem was creating empty date ranges. ("It takes awhile to create nothing.") They created a constant for the

servlet question

Assume one is using a servlet container (like Tomcat or similar). Is there a way to specify to the servlet container which class implementations to use for HttpServletRequest and Session ? I am guessing that there may exist factories for producing instances of these classes and I am wondering

Re: Action an overkill ??

Ted, "Early optimization is the root of all evil." I like that! A manager told me that maintenance bills for old systems were hugely inflated because of bloated optimisation logic that saved a little bit of hardware cost for a few years. Mind you plenty of systems have been written that won't per

Re: Mapped properties

Rey, Is my answer here correct? http://jguru.com/forums/view.jsp?EID=567079 I *really* haven't done enough work with the mapped properties, and have just been cribbing things from your messages ;-) -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services. -- T

Re: Question/Issue with "forward" specifications

Hi gurus! I use helper methods that log a warning when a null is returned - makes it easy to track down errors. Q1 - Is this good practice? I suspect I'm replicating logging that struts already has. Q2 - Are there problems with such methods being static(will they be a bottleneck)? Frank - your co

RE: Mapped properties

Make zzz also has the proper get/set methods, and that all these get/set methods are public. Hope this helps, Fr. -Original Message- From: Francesco Marsoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 December 2001 19:55 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Mapped properties I get an exceptio

Re: Action an overkill ??

Which makes the answer, implement it in the Action first, where it is easy to do, but more because it *is* business logic, and then consider moving it to the client *if* that helps performance. The thing to watch for is predetermining that doing something on the client will be beneficial before

RE: Action an overkill ??

Edward, Bravo! The fewer facilities you use on the client the fewer problems you'll have. But for systems with huge numbers of users the more work you can off-load to the client the lower your server workload, so it's always going to be trade-off. Keith. --- "Edward Q. Bridges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem using toScope parameter

I hope I have this right! What that wrote: > I am having trouble with the tag, > specifically the toScope > parameter. > > Here is the situation: > > I set up some collections in an action class to use > as options in a > form and set them as attributes on the request > object. These collect

RE: Action an overkill ??

what if the client doesn't support javascript? what if the ordering is significant, and the client has javascript turned off? basically, it's a design question that gets answered during that phase of development. having it done in the business layer ensures that it's always done and done in th

RE: Can't forward to a global?

> -Original Message- > From: Alex Colic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: donderdag 6 december 2001 22:06 > To: Struts > Subject: Can't forward to a global? > > > > Hi, > > I have an action class that could get called after a users session has > expired. When the action class is ca