Off topic

Please don't flame me..just wanted to give out a little Friday humor before Friday is actually over.enjoy. http://open-tools.org/download/TowYardComplain1.mp3 It the funniest prank call (mp3) that I've heard in quite a while! James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atl

Re: Iterate Help

Why write your own tag? I'd recommend using the JSP Standard Tag Library, which has a action that's just what you're looking for. See this URL: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/index.html david Olikkadavath, Bobby wrote: >I have to write a iterate tag with features of setting up a max

RE: Iterate Help

There's also the "display" tag library that provides lots o' functionality for tables, paging, sorting, etc, with great documentation and examples: http://edhill.its.uiowa.edu/display/ > -Original Message- > From: Mark Nichols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:

RE: Reporting Solutions

More work on the as/400 side (old O/S, old programs, etc) the existing reports can be fed over, then its better I guess... Personally I would love a flat file format, anything besides the report itself! -Original Message- From: Simon.Chappell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

Re: Iterate Help

You want the JSPTags "pager" tag. Get it here: http://jsptags.com/tags/navigation/pager/ - Original Message - From: "Olikkadavath, Bobby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: Iterate Help > I have to wr

Re: Iterate Help

Zitat von "Olikkadavath, Bobby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have to write a iterate tag with features of setting up a max limit of > items that can be displayed from a collection. > for ex there is a collection of Employees (employeeList). The Employee > class > has getName and getAddress. > Now out

RE: Reporting Solutions

Why don't you output XML from the AS/400 and then use XSLT to generate the HTML? >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:37 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Reporting Solutions > > > >On this topic... I have a slew of

RE: Reporting Solutions

If the piece that is slowing you down is writing the parsing (in Perl), you may want to look at xconvert. http://www.unidex.com/xflat.htm Maybe you could use it to do the text to XHTML conversion. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 1

RE: Reporting Solutions

On this topic... I have a slew of reports that get generated on our AS/400... If anyone knows a tool that would do a nice job of scrapping the text output into html it would be a great help. The 400 FTP's the reports over to an intranet server when it runs them. The server then parses the

Iterate Help

I have to write a iterate tag with features of setting up a max limit of items that can be displayed from a collection. for ex there is a collection of Employees (employeeList). The Employee class has getName and getAddress. Now out of the 50 or more employees I want to display 10 employee names a

Reporting Solutions

This is a summary of my research and testing of reporting solutions. I've gotten a lot of help here. So I hope this information will be useful. My requirements were to be able to run reports (ideally Crystal Reports) via JSP, ideally on a Linux box. If a Crystal Reports solution couldn't be found

RE: Starter Action? Where to find Plugin Documentation?

It's been mentioned before about using a forward as your index.jsp That would almost guarantee that an initial action was executed. The exception being if someone uses a bookmark. Although, there are several work-arounds for that as well. (redirect/forward to index.jsp on session expire) This h

RE: Struts with a "wait page" ...

just a quick suggestion... Field 1: Field 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah   James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network" http://struts-atlanta.open-t

Struts with a "wait page" ...

Hi community, I want to display a "please wait" page when a Struts action is executed, that redirects to or loads the real page; my current solution works, but I have a problem with Struts. My solution is as follows: The links and form actions in the JSP pages have a ".do" extension, my "Wait

RE: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

Seems to me that it was a wrong decision to deprecate this method not thinking that ActionForm might also require access to the resources. Cant figure out how else I would get access to it if needed to do checking, and may just have to assume <> that it will be available for use. I have spent

Re: Starter Action? Where to find Plugin Documentation?

I know it doesn't help you now, but Chapter 9 of my book will cover plugins and show how to use them. Chapter 9 is finished and will be published very shortly at http://www.theserverside.com/resources/strutsreview.jsp. Chuck At 08:37 AM 6/14/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Can someone give me a hint w

Extending logic:forward tag

Hi, I have a problem in extending logic:forward tag, Actually I am developing a tag to check the user login status and can forward the user to my require page that is available in forward from global-forwards in struts-config.xml. After checking the struts-example web application "login.jsp" is li

Re: Validator and DispatchAction

I think that is good. This along the lines of what I was thinking. David --- William W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My solution : > > I did a class MyValidator with two methods > (verifyMethod and > validateRequired) > > --- > private static boolean verifyMethod( > Object bean, >

Urgent-using global-forwards in custom tag classes

Hi, I have a requirement to get a forward class in a Custom tag class which is in struts-config.xml. I'm writing a user's session checking tag which needs to forward to a login.jsp page that is available in struts-config.xml In my custom tag i would like to get the value of sessionexpired. I

RE: pager taglib !!

I too have been using it very efficiently. -Original Message- From: Mark Nichols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:10 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: pager taglib !! - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > anyone using pager tag

Re: Starter Action? Where to find Plugin Documentation?

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Jeremy Prellwitz wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:37:06 -0800 > From: Jeremy Prellwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Starter Action

RE: Error messages: other colo of input field label

another idea. have the errors listed into a javascript var[] and loop thru and change the style class to a known .name that way you can change at runtime (from your .css) the color of the affending text/radio(s)/checkbox(s)/whatever -- just and idea -- James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts E

ApplicationConfig problem

I want to use a .properties files in my ActionForm to retrieve localized messages when populating ActionError(). I get a NullPointerException here : ActionServlet myAS = this.getServlet(); try{ ApplicationConfig applicationConf = new ApplicationConfig("",myAS); String msg

Re: Starter Action? Where to find Plugin Documentation?

There doesn't appear to be any official documentation of this other than the config file DTD and the source code. DTD: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd You can use the Struts Console to easily add/modify/delete elements from the config file. Struts Console: http://www

Servlet Reload problem

Folks I know this isn't exactly a struts question 100%, but since I am using struts with my application I think the question is somewhat relevant to this list. I looked through both archives (Struts/Tomcat) and I didn't find an answer to my question. I am using tomcat 4.03 and I would like to NOT

Re: Need Urgent help

>Why don't you change the bean so it doesn't return a null result? You can also wrap the whole thing in a logic:notEmpty tag, so that the equal tag will not be evaulated if your property is null. > > Regards, > > Richard > > At 08:10 PM 6/25/2002 +0530, you wrote: > >Hi, > >I have a problem in u

Re: Starter Action? Where to find Plugin Documentation?

Can someone give me a hint where to find documentation on this topic? (i.e. Plugins, how they are configured, and how you attach them to events.) Thanks. Original message >Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:57:50 -0700 (PDT) >From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: St

RE: JSP's under WEB-INF?

-Original Message- From: Jerry Jalenak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 June 2002 5:01 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: JSP's under WEB-INF? In looking at the Struts doc, is there any reason why the following wouldn't work just as well?

Re: Need Urgent help

Rayaku, What do you expect the tag to do if the method returns a null value? The logic tag documentation specifically states that the property cannot be null. Why don't you change the bean so it doesn't return a null result? Regards, Richard At 08:10 PM 6/25/2002 +0530, you wrote: >Hi, >I hav

RE: File Upload/Download Issues

> PS: Anybody have examples that have file uploads/downloads? Uploads There's some sample code for file upload that was contributed at: http://www.jcorporate.com/product/expresso.html > Documents link > scroll down to "Community Contributed Documents" and click the "Code for Browsing to

RE: Please help clarify or confirm -- HttpSession

Valid points all. Didn't consider that aspect of URL rewriting. However, you could prefix the sessionID with the webapp context path string and still have them be unique in your static utility class. Not a problem. b.t.w., I wasn't suggesting that you store HTTPSession objects this way per se,

Re: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

Have almost found the answer but am stuck on a newbie problem because MessageResourcesFactory is an abstract class. In my ActionForm : ApplicationConfig applicationConf = new ApplicationConfig("",this.getServlet()); String msgResourcesParameter = applicationConf.findMessageResourc

Re: Starter Action?

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Struts Newsgroup wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:10:02 -0700 > From: Struts Newsgroup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Starter Action? > > Subject: Starter Action? > From: "Christopher Cheng"

Re: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

Well, I think ApplicationConfig is the direction to look to... - Original Message - __ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur l

RE: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

Barb, I should have pointed out.. I had tried that already and got the same result :) .. But what Emanuel was suggesting would work if evey message in the Message Resources would be stored at the context level. Then we would be able to retrieve it as follows: String message = (String)serv

Re: User Authentication

Subject: Re: User Authentication From: "David Bolsover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === Craig Thanks for the lead - I shall certainly follow up - although I have now solved the problem for my present project regards David Bolsover "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

Hello Muki, I am right now struggling with it. If I do as the other guy proposed, I get a NullPointer... He told : (MessageResources) this.getServlet().getServletContext().getAttribute(Action.MESSAGE_KEY); Will tell you whether I find the solution first ;-) I have few hours left to find it, anyw

RE: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

I am trying to check if I have access to the Message Resources in my ActionForm subclass before I use the error messages that are available in the Message resource bundle. So earlier I was using: MessageResources errorMessages = servlet.getResources(); to get the res

RE: Preselected option in dropdown

use read on the the tag > -Original Message- > From: Vijay Kumar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Preselected option in dropdown > > Hi, >Is there any way to show preselected option in dropdown. Its like my > s

Re: Error messages: other colo of input field label

- Original Message - From: "hans albers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:09 AM Subject: Error messages: other colo of input field label > Hi there, > > the error message at the top of the page about the fields > which are wrong is nice, but > >

Re: Validator and DispatchAction

My solution : I did a class MyValidator with two methods (verifyMethod and validateRequired) --- private static boolean verifyMethod( Object bean, ValidatorAction va, Field field, ActionErrors errors, HttpServletRequest request) { String methodRequest = request.get

Re: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

ah thanks, this helps me too, since I was looking for it, in fact... :-/ - Original Message - From: emmanuel.boudrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:46 PM Subject: Re: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

Re: struts validation and multiple message resources files

Is there a solution for this problem ? Thanks, William. >From: "Alok Ghosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: struts validation and multiple message resources files >Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:24:04 -0400 > >Hi, >I am

Re: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

I use getServlet().getServletContext().getAttribute(Action.MESSAGE_KEY); -Emmanuel "Soomar, Muki (R.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Can anyone tell me how I can access the Message Resources from an ActionForm sub-class, now that the ActionServlet.getResouces() method is deprecated. Thanks

Re: ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

just pass to it the request parameter, i.e : MessageResources getResources() Deprecated. Actions should call Action.getResources(HttpServletRequest) instead of this method, in order to retrieve the resources for the current sub-application - Original Message - From: Soomar, Mu

RE: ActionForm question

For posterity -- if anyone else might need this..: 1) Your struts-config.xml should declare the value true for the "validate" attribute in the element if you want your controller servlet to call the validate method of your ActionForm sub class: Example: -

RE: Please help clarify or confirm -- HttpSession

Craig, Maybe single sign-on is the wrong term to use. We are essentially trying to create a single 'point of entry' into our client website that will authenticate/authorize a user to those webapps that they are allowed to access. Within this desire, I also need to maintain a distinct separation

RE: Preselected option in dropdown

If your select box property is existing in your Action Form bean and its value matches with any of its option values , struts would select that item by default. ex: and if u have method with name getMyname() ( set method also )in your action form and if getMyname() returns a value(X) and if c

ActionServlet.getResources() Method alternative ??

Can anyone tell me how I can access the Message Resources from an ActionForm sub-class, now that the ActionServlet.getResouces() method is deprecated. Thanks. Muki Soomar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail:

help needed - default selection in dynamic select boxes.

Hi, I am using struts v1.0.2 and heard this does not support generation of dynamic html controls through struts tags(). I have a collection of ComboBoxBeans with name-value pair in a Vector to show html options and would like to use it with 2nd collection . I have a problem in rendering defa

Re: MessageResources configuration line to struts-config.xml ?

ok, this solved my question by telling me to upgrade :-) Prior to that I passed an application... parameter to my servlet but the associated ActionForm could not use it then. Thank you very much :-) Barbara - Original Message - From: James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Users Mai

Re[2]: html:messages

On Friday, June 14, 2002, 9:55:20 AM, wbchmura wrote: wEBc> I was thinking the tag would function alot like the wEBc> tag. Why would it not work the same? I'm not sure actually. I'm guessing if I looked at the source of the errors tag it would be doing more 'stuff' than it's supe

Re: MessageResources configuration line to struts-config.xml ?

Oops, sorry for the confusion. The tag is new in 1.1 and thus is only available in Struts 1.1b. Here are links to both the 1.0 and 1.1 DTDS: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_0.dtd http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd -james [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: Nested Tags question

Looking forward to that tutorial BTW A comment on your tutorial work: IMHO, you have raised the standards regarding Struts tutorials. After completing these on your site, you were able to convince me why I wanted to use nested tags as well how to use them. Keep up the good work. Arro

Re: MessageResources configuration line to struts-config.xml ?

Hi James, thanks for this, gotta give a try. Can you point me to the right tag in the DTD ? guess that I cannot see it because I have printed it out in black :-p I use Struts 1.0.2, should I move to 1.1b ? Gotta see if it's out of beta state... Barbara - Original Message - From: James H

Error messages: other colo of input field label

Hi there, the error message at the top of the page about the fields which are wrong is nice, but is it possible to change the label color of the input fields where the user made a wrong input, i've seen this on many pages in the internet, can i do this with struts? thanks hans _

Re: MessageResources configuration line to struts-config.xml ?

If you use the Struts Console to edit your config file it will properly place the tag in your file to comply with the DTD. Struts Console: http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/ The thread you mention below explains what value to set based on what you name your properties file and what hierarchy it

Re: DataSource problem

Hi Maarten, join the club! There are some more guys having exactliy the same problem as you. To me your configuration looks all right. I saw some samples : driverName jdbc:mysql://localhost/test where the parameter name is not driverName but url. I tried both without luck. Are you using

MessageResources configuration line to struts-config.xml ?

I have been reading (really... lol) this thread : http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg33807.html but according to struts-config.xml's dtd dunno where to put the tag, and which tag, to indicate the location (class) of my MessageResources .properties file ! The message to

RE: html:messages

One other note on the difference... If I use the bean:write to get the output it does some lovely transforms on the text so that it spits out valid HTML...

I found [70] matches for your search. I did really want the in there so that it would do a bullet point... -Original Message--

RE: html:messages

Hey that worked... (Needed to do both parts) I was thinking the tag would function alot like the tag. Why would it not work the same? -Original Message- From: maillist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:07 PM To: struts-user Subject: Re: html:messages O

DataSource problem

Hi, I'm trying to create a simple DataBase app. using Struts. Right now i have a problem with getting the DataSource out of the InitialContext and i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong or maybe it has something to do with the Struts Servlet. In configured the server.xml as follows:

Preselected option in dropdown

Hi, Is there any way to show preselected option in dropdown. Its like my search returns arraylist and i need to show show particular value in drop down. Thanks in advance Cheers vkvk _ Join the world’s largest e-mail serv

Re: select dropdown with a nested name-attribute doesnt work in anybrowser - sends wrong value in request

How many rows do you generally iterate? More than one I presume on average? I mean, is it possible that you've only ever tried it with just one row and never with more than one row? SATISH.T wrote: >This is the html produced, since I put it in the iterate tag the array >index changes... >Nest

RE: Pros and Cons of Struts

We use Struts in our project. it's very good Pros: + you can apply your OOP skills and build large class hierarchies of form beans and +action classes Maris > -Original Message- > From: Struts Newsgroup (@Basebeans.com) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 10:55

RE: Is there a way to reverse engineer a WAR file for a struts app?

A war file is simply a zip file. You can unzip it with any zip program. You can also unzip jars. And you can decompile classes using some Java decompiler also (mocha...). -Original Message- From: Mark Nichols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 June 2002 15:01 To: Struts Users Mailing Li

Re: Is there a way to reverse engineer a WAR file for a struts app?

- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In other words is there a way to 'reverse > engineer' a WAR file into an application that can be debugged? Did you include the source when you originally created your WAR file? If so I think you should be able to load the WAR into WSAD and

RE: select dropdown with a nested name-attribute doesnt work in any browser - sends wrong value in request

This is the html produced, since I put it in the iterate tag the array index changes... Nested:define does not generate any html but I use it to hold the collection which I set in the form for each of my combo box . Doors Zepplin Floyd -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMA

Re: select dropdown with a nested name-attribute doesnt work in anybrowser - sends wrong value in request

Oh! It's a mystery to me then why my HTML doesn't work. Can you send the HTML that these tags produce? Does that nested:define produce html? What role does it play? thanks Adam SATISH.T wrote: >Hi I have tried out nested:select in both IE and netscape and it works >fine. The property bandList

Re: pager taglib !!

- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > anyone using pager tag library from JSPTags.com , i have a few doubts > regarding the same, could some help me out > I have used, and continue to use the JSPTags pager tag to great success. What are your concerns? -- To unsubscribe,

File Upload/Download Issues

Hi, I have 3 Questions for you all: 1. First, I have a concern for memory usage while uploading a huge (100+Mb) file. How does Struts handle uploading the file? Or is this purely a Web Server issue. Also, I am using the org.apache.struts.upload.FormFile class to read it. Does it matter if I us

RE: 1.1B and data-source problems...

I have submitted a patch to the dev group to fix the config file in the blank war file. Hopefully someone with commit privileges with commit the change soon. -james [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/ --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yep, I got the xml out of the blank struts fi

Re: Nested Tags question

> As far as the problem goes concerning setting against valid indices, > my code does that simply enough using a check against ArrayList.size() > and the index from the request parameter - if the size is too small, I > just add new objects - 3 lines of code. This is all in a for loop, > which

RE: select dropdown with a nested name-attribute doesnt work in any browser - sends wrong value in request

Hi I have tried out nested:select in both IE and netscape and it works fine. The property bandList is the one I set in my nested beans which is a collection (Arraylist ) of label Value beans(name-value pairs). This is the syntax I use and the values are returned properly. " >

Re: workflow example explaination.

The values are checked before the code of your actions you derive from GenericAction is executed, thus preventing the user from executing an action he is not allowed to execute right now. If you are looking for the exact locations, where the values are used, you can always do a grep on all the

select dropdown with a nested name-attribute doesnt work in any browser - sends wrong value in request

Neither Mozilla nor IE are handling my HTML produced from nested tags. They ignore any selection I make in a select dropdown when I submit. The incoming parameters at the server show that the original value is always sent. My HTML: -- please select -- Strange Location Up a tree Kebabhouse In

RE: URGENT - PLS HELP

Hello, Have you tried the following: companyHome = (CompanyHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(tmpObj, com.mortgagehub.ejb.CompanyHome.class); That usually works for me. Regards, Stephen. -Original Message- From: Bhaskar Gopalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 June 2002 22:15 To: S