Re: Baffled no more

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > Moral of the story -- Struts depends on itself being loaded with the webapp > class loader. Stick "struts.jar" in your WEB-INF/lib directory and stop > worrying about class loading ... :-) Well, right, except that the development/deployment cycle is a lot easier if

Baffled no more

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
Thanks to others' help and some digging, I discovered that having struts.jar in your classpath is a bad thing. :-) I know it says this in the documentation, but I was not aware of what the symptoms would be. In short, for those who are still curious, if you have struts.jar in your regular class

Re: Final stumped message

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dropped your war in my Tomcat 3.2 webapps directory and the app ran > fine. I think it must be something in your environment. Check your > classath to make sure it's not something that's getting picked up from > there. OK, this is even weirder. When I zero out my cla

Re: Final stumped message

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
Gerry Chike wrote: > > Hi Laird, > Not sure if this is the desired behaviour, > but I placed WAR file into > \jakarta-tomcat\webapps folder. Re-started TomCat 3.2. Opened > starthere.html and entered my name and clicked submit button. > > TomCat 3.2 console responded with the following output: >

Final stumped message

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
OK, I'm beyond stumped. I've posted my broken .war file at http://www.amherst.edu/~ljnelson/opencommerce.war. Please, could someone try deploying this on a tomcat 3.2 release and let me know if it works or fails? The source code for the classes involved is at http://www.amherst.edu/~ljnelson/op

Re: Baffled: classpath problem as usual?

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > Are you positive that your classes have a "*.class" extension, and are in their > proper package hierarchy? In other words, a class named > "com.mycompany.mypackage.MyClass" should be located at: > > /WEB-INF/classes/com/mycompany/mypackage/MyClass.class Verif

Re: Baffled: classpath problem as usual?

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
Pierre Métras wrote: > The ClassNotFoundException indicates that Struts can't find your class along > the application CLASSPATH, using the Java classloader. Right; I should have made it clear that I've been working with Java professionally for years, i.e. I know what the exception means. (Even s

Re: Baffled: classpath problem as usual?

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
Laird Nelson wrote: > To debug, I've got it to the point where > ActionBase.createActionInstance() tries to create an instance of my > Action. The action.xml file is set up properly. The call to > newInstance() results in a ClassNotFoundException. Even more weirdly, the tomcat

Baffled: classpath problem as usual?

2000-12-11 Thread Laird Nelson
I've been trying for four days to deploy a hello world struts application using struts 0.5 and tomcat 3.2. My "application" is a .war file that consists of a directory structure basically like this (shorthanded for brevity on this list): starthere.html done.html WEB-INF/action.xml WEB-INF/classe

Re: FAQ: where on earth does ActionServlet log problems to?

2000-12-08 Thread Laird Nelson
- Original Message - From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows. The problem is that Windows does not > update the file size of a directory entry until you close the file -- so you > will have to shut down Tomcat to see the actual text of t

FAQ: where on earth does ActionServlet log problems to?

2000-12-08 Thread Laird Nelson
I've got my ActionServlet set up with a debug level of 2 (I left that parameter as it was set in the examples). I'm running with Struts 0.5 and Tomcat 3.2. I've been working for 8 hours straight trying to get a basic web app using struts to come up and show me a hello world page in response to a

Re: Proposed Solution to Non-Serializable MessageResources Class

2000-12-08 Thread Laird Nelson
- Original Message - From: "Frank Starsinic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is a good idea. I'm wondering. Is there a performance hit having all > the resource strings in one XML file or > would it be better to have a seperate file for each locale? I echo this; it would be nice to be able to

Re: Proposed Solution to Non-Serializable MessageResources Class

2000-12-08 Thread Laird Nelson
- Original Message - From: "Pierre Métras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - Message bundles files are already used for localization of other > softwares. So translators know how to handle them. I don't want the > translators to use an XML editor to do the work they used to do with their > prefered

Re: java.io.NotSerializableException: Serialization problems running Struts on Weblogic

2000-12-08 Thread Laird Nelson
Any way you could force use of PropertyResourceBundle instead, and then write a simple "save this to a java.util.Properties" converter? Then MessageResources (or whatever the name of the class is) could have an easy writeExternal() method that effectively makes it serializable. Product of two se

1.0 readiness?

2000-12-06 Thread Laird Nelson
Does anyone (Craig) know when 1.0 will be released? Craig, are you holding off for bugfixes or some other piece of functionality? I'm trying to plan some architectural stuff and want to know whether I should base my efforts off the head of the trunk or the 0.5 release. Thanks in advance. Cheer

Struts install problem fixed

2000-11-16 Thread Laird Nelson
Fault was bad ant documentation. Cheers, Laird -- W: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / P: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amherst.edu/~ljnelson/ Good, cheap, fast: pick two.

Install failing with ClassNotFound for XalanLiaison

2000-11-16 Thread Laird Nelson
This is probably a FAQ. I've read the installation instructions for Struts. I've installed a binary version of ant1.2 properly. I've installed a binary version of xalan-1.2.1 properly. The main build of struts gets to the first