Wow. So this guy downloads some JSF stuff, gets the example running, writes
an article and gets it in JP? I hope they don't pay him too much! Then
again maybe he's on the Redmond payroll...
I'll bet the majority of the struts-user subscribers do the same thing and
think they're just playing aro
Thank you.
Some of the stuff is funny but lately I've been filtering all but Craig--
it's a good strategy in general for keeping up with struts, but I'm sure
there are a lot of other posts that are interesting that I miss. He's
right-- the reason most people subscribe has to do with struts not
It's been a while since I had this problem, but sometimes with 1.02 indexed
properties you have to resort to scriptlets. You could try something like
this (untested):
]"/>
or maybe like this (also untested):
]" value="<%
request.getAttribute("indexdProperty["
z...
> -Original Message-
> From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:38 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)
>
>
> Actually, my primary point was text editor u
I'm trying to migrate a large application to vanilla struts but I'm getting
resistance to the idea of using the ActionServlet because there are many
references to "*.jsp" in the codebase and there's a feeling that migrating
things to "*.do" is too radical. I've tried overriding the servlet mapping
n
> stupidity, and I'm not
> sure about the former."
> - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Taylor, Jason [mailto:jtaylor@;cobaltgroup.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 6:24 PM
> > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List
Hmm... Stemming from that idea, you could develop a general mechanism for
setting attributes using tag body content-- like if David's example looked
like this:
value
where the html:text tag (and any other tag) would have a means of parsing
its body as xml for attribute values without reso
Just a hunch-- have you tried specifying a 'name' for the nested:iterate
tag?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Jeff_Mychasiw@;nlgroup.ca]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 8:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Nested Tags] Nested vs logic tags..
Greetings:
I am a
use
see docs http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/struts-nested.html
-Original Message-
From: C. Struts [mailto:struts@;cmbsystems.com]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:05 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Proper Syntax of Nested
Can anyone please provide a pointer to some documen
Nested forms don't work because browsers don't handle them. The best
practice so far as I know is to have one large form with multiple submission
buttons that specify different values for a 'form type' form property which
is inspected in the Action class that handles the request.
You can always
rty
does that type format of [] apply to Arrays and Lists?
-Original Message-
From: Taylor, Jason [mailto:jtaylor@;cobaltgroup.com]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:42
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: Question - DynaActionForm and indexed property
hope you're
hope you're using struts 1.1-- you're going to need the "indexed" attribute.
Here's the basic idea:
Type:
Name:
...
and
Note: this will be this simple only if all your creditCard attributes are
Strings, otherwise you'll need to resort to PropertyUtils.copyProperties()
or some homegrown c
Search the mail archive for container-managed authentication (CMA). There
was a lot of discussion on the subject a week or two ago. Craig McClanahan
has posted some good rants on the subject...
-Original Message-
From: Adam Sherman [mailto:adam@;teachandtravel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October
you can use the bean:size tag to get the size of your collection, then do a
logic:equals comparing the indexId of each row with the page scope variable
obtained from the bean:size tag via scriplet reference (kind of a hack,
probably a better way using JSTL)...
-Original Message-
From: Tuan
I'll vouch for the fact that contextRelative works, and should work
according to your included configuration-- barring some bug in a build more
recent than the one I'm using (unlikely).
Have you tried a different name for either the default or sub app's path? I
know there have been some bugs su
If are starting fresh, it's always better to build off an existing standard
framework that is supported by an active developer pool-- Struts is a good
choice. If you're midway through a project, then it depends on your
resources and your deadline. If you've already built it, it works and it's
un
what about extending your existing Exception classes? You could make your
existing ones interfaces or abstract classes that are used by the as is
software, and the extending classes are there more or less just to indicate
differences to the declarative exception handler. That way, you can use
St
I use WLS 6.1 sp3 no problem. I use the plain vanilla ActionServlet from a
nightly build in May (don't ask).
I specify the init-param to the servlet in web.xml like this:
config
/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
I *don't* use Windoze to develop-- but the stack trace looks like you've got
a valid p
I started with Ted's example too, but I prefer to have one list of beans
that contain all the properties rather than a bunch of lists of primitives.
When you use the indexed attribute the controller automatically converts
your form elements to request parameters that look like this:
foo.do?beans[
Yeah, I've done this stuff a fair bit. You definitely need 1.1 because the
"indexed" attribute has been added to the tags and the nested
extension has been folded into the core distribution.
You can definitely declare an array or ArrayList of objects as a
form-property of a DynaActionForm. The
+1
are we being bugged?
-Original Message-
From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] Mail list gone whack-o?
Yes, I've noticed it too.
James Mitchell
On Thu, 03 October 2002, Eddie Bush wrote:
>
there's a post about this every couple of days-- right now, I think the best
practice is to use ant or some tool to merge specific properties to shared
ones at build time-- I don't think there's any way to do it otherwise.
Eddie Bush has proposed a solution using the default application, but I'm
n
You could also try using randomly generated strings-- that way your code
could be *extra* secure since noone else could ever figure out your naming
conventions!
Looks like you're pretty close already ;)
-Original Message-
From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, O
I think I understand what you're doing, but feel free to ignore me if not.
What I often do is to present "availXXX" object arrays to the front-end via
request/session attributes that the front-end developer knows is meant to be
a read-only "informational" array shared between different actions
eventually ...
Taylor, Jason wrote:
>According to source code, the attribute in the distribution I use is
>"org.apache.struts.action.ACTION_MESSAGE", though it seems a bit odd to use
>the syntax you're using.
>
>Why not do
> userInfo =
>((MessageResources)reque
According to source code, the attribute in the distribution I use is
"org.apache.struts.action.ACTION_MESSAGE", though it seems a bit odd to use
the syntax you're using.
Why not do
userInfo =
((MessageResources)request.getAttribute(Action.MESSAGE_KEY).getMessage("user
.info.message");
In my experience, nested tags and indexed tags do not mix. Use indexed if
you have one dimension of arbitrary length and use nested if you have more
dimensions of arbitrary length. Nested has its own "indexed"-like behavior
(check out the "monkey" example in the docs, and take a look at the HTML
Right now, I'm converting my session-based forms to request-based forms
because I'm trying to minimize my use of the session object.
The reason is that I found out that when my container runs in clustered
mode, it serializes the attributes of the session object and broadcasts the
updates across
Have you tried specifying your field as a String in the action form? That
way when you initialize it, you can make sure it's formatted correctly...
-Original Message-
From: Cathy Osekizoglu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:35 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
S
you could use the mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:33 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: How to map the jsp files in different folder with the
ActionServlet!!
Hi,
I have a same question , regarding relative path of
action mapping,
say i have a jsp called s
OK, so would the solution to John's problem then be the following:
1) Define dyna form beans in struts-config.xml that duplicate value objects
in the model, or at least that possess properties that duplicate the model
VO properties that need to be exposed.
2) Define dyna form beans in struts-con
ption: Cannot create iterator for
com.blah.blah.form.EmployeeForm@69d0cc
error.
Man ... I wish there was documentation somewhere about this.
D.
-Original Message-
From: Taylor, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: October 1, 2002 12:43 PM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject
try
-Original Message-
From: Darren Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:39 AM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: nested:optionsCollection
Ok I'm close ... but this ...
Gives me a list of the employee Objects ...
Sorry I didn't think a little more before posting my 'help'. Seems it
spurred a good discussion, though.
I don't use reflection terribly often (just to select service factory
classes at initialization usually), but then again I don't often attempt to
dynamically select static final constants.
DynaActionForms are more maintainable than HashMaps because their properties
are configured in the standard struts config file, rather than in code or
some home-grown configurator. If your colleague doesn't like lifting
decisions out of code and into configuration files, he probably isn't
interes
0, 2002 9:38 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: SURVEY: Proper Way To Pre-populate ActionForms
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Taylor, Jason wrote:
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:54:46 -0700
> From: "Taylor, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List
e Jason's reflection method - but it never hurts to
have
> a couple of different methods to use on something like this!
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> Jerry
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Taylor, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, Septemb
My problem with doing database lookups in ActionForm.reset() is that an
exception may occur and it's not as easy to handle as it when doing things
within the Action class (where you can just forward things to an error.jsp).
I find that if I trap the exception, the populate method may have proble
7;t see a way to do what I want - any chance that
you'd have some sample code laying about?
Jerry
> -Original Message-
> From: Taylor, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 9:59 AM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: [OT -
sounds like a job for reflection (java.lang.reflect.*;) Have you looked at
java.lang.Class and java.lang.reflect.Field?
-Original Message-
From: Jerry Jalenak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:50 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [OT - Java] How can I do this
what about objects from the session or context that you'd like to expose via
form beans (which you can do currently)? Do *you* see a disconnect there?
;)
-Original Message-
From: Bartley, Chris P [PCS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:56 PM
To: 'Struts Users
data is actually a subset of the data that can be sent via
FormBeans, i.e. the set that are accessible and editable within an HTML
form.
It sounds like people are also using FormBeans to access data outside of
forms in order to use the FormBean configuration as documentation of a sort
of data
"webapps", not
between "subapps". It is easy to do it between subapps. Not so easy
between webapps ;-).
Cedric
Taylor, Jason wrote:
>I've been able to share jsps between webapps using the "contextRelative"
>attribute of the action forward and relative lin
ave like sourceforge, allowing
subprojects to be hosted and managed by users. Sounds like this may be a
good solution, as I plan to use Struts + Tiles.
Thanks,
James
> -Original Message-
> From: Taylor, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 11:57 AM
>
I've been able to share jsps between webapps using the "contextRelative"
attribute of the action forward and relative links everywhere. My default
app is just a redirector to the appropriate sub-app so the user is *always*
in a sub-app.
-Original Message-
From: Cedric Dumoulin [mailto:[E
Let's say you have a number of organizations using their own "flavors" of an
application. You want to allow them to customize whatever features they
want, but you don't want to have more code/JSPs/media than is necessary to
provide the different behavior. You can think of it as the way
manufactu
I can't give you my stuff, but I started with downloading Camino 2.0.3 and
looking at the example 6 of "Horoscope IIex" or something like that. Camino
is a tool that can purportedly manage sub-applications (I still haven't
bothered to get the IDE itself running).
-Original Message-
From:
My interest in multiple sub-apps is more related to maintenence and
post-launch life cycle issues.
Modular development is nice, but to me fine-grained control of override
behavior for every aspect of the deployed application is crucial-- that way
I can add functionality or upgrade any feature of
LOOK AT YOUR CONSOLE!!
-Original Message-
From: Kalaiselvan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:32 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Startup Problem
Hi All,
Here i'm facing serious problem..
I already configured test a
try
-Original Message-
From: Anthony Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:50 AM
To: Struts User List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: multiple sub projects
What about situations where a common .jsp file is used as a target for
forward by multiple sub-applications
I think Eddie's right, with the only question being do you have levels of
inheritance? Does "/foo/bar/baz" app inherit first from "/foo/bar" or does
it just get "/foo"?
On the other hand, if this question were seen as more a distraction than a
useful discussion, I'd say table it for 1.1, and use
I think the current best practice is to have Ant or some build tool manage
the files and eliminate redundancy. 1.1 Final will likely not have property
or config inheritance, as far as I know...
-Original Message-
From: Anthony Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24
if you *really* want to do it this way, you need to have an embedded
scriptlet:
].value" size="1">
or something like that
better is to refer to a unique property of the action form which is the
selected item, and a collection that houses a copy of the list of objects
that possess the property l
The documentation is not so clear on this. Basically, what happens in the
case you cite is that a request parameter will be sent to the Action class
you're submitting the form to that would look like
"?id[34].propertyName=" if it were on a query string.
If that doesn't make sense to you, yo
I think you're talking about "paging" through a dataset a certain number of
records at a time. If I'm right then we're talking about some sort of
collection with a class or set of classes whose mission in life is to
provide meta-data about the collection like "Page 5 of 6", "current
selection is
Maybe not. I've logged a bug (#12600) against Struts 1.1 that deals with
the inflexibility of the tag, and it may be the same basic
problem.
FormTag.java uses a method "getMappingURL" or something like that that
always prepends your action with the context path (incl. module path for
sub-apps).
V-- What did you specifically see as a performance problem? Was it jndi
lookups, I/O, serialization/deserialization, memory allocation, failover or
what?
I also think they are often mis- or over-used-- I'm interested in the cases
you ran into. Do you care to share?
-JT
-Original Message
You may want to look at an example that uses DynaActionForm as the class
associated with an action in the action-mappings node of the
struts-config.xml
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From: Vincent Berruchon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:19 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing
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>-Original Message-
>From: Taylor, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 12:40 PM
>To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
&g
Simon-- do you think you should use ActionForms to transfer objects that are
shared between actions and never changed on the front end? I can see
arguments either way, what's your opinion?
-Original Message-
From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2
I've heard there are programs that randomly spit out excerpts from
newsgroups that appear to all but the most discerning observer to be human
and almost pass the Turing test-- maybe this is one such case. This group's
getting a bit weird-- I'll be back in a day or two when it gets back to
normal.
sorry, my last post was a bit cryptic-- it was in response to Ralf's second
question about multiple sub-apps, not his first one about html:link-- my
bad!
-Original Message-
From: Taylor, Jason
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 2:17 PM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subjec
I found an example with Camino 2.0.3, a struts IDE. My stuff is
unfortunately proprietary so I can't share it, but it's real simple to do.
Basically, when you set up your web.xml, just add more "config/"
init-params for your ActionServlet. Like this:
action
org.apache.str
If you want to manage properties using Struts mechanisms, you can set up a
message-resources reference to your property file (say,
"ApplicationResources.properties") in the struts-config.xml file right after
the action-mappings block:
then call the protected getResources method within
Properties are huge. I'd use properties rather than init-params unless I
*knew* I had no use for sub-applications.
When you use multiple sub-applications, the properties files can give you
fine-grained control over copy, media references and sub-context-specific
configuration data. Meanwhile, t
r example, what I would *like* to write is
].name" />
where the parameter index comes from the user selection on the previous
page.
Doesn't compile though!! Is there a way of writing the above that will
compile?
HM
On 21 Sep 2002 at 13:44, Taylor, Jason wrote:
> I'm no
7;t you do your initialization in the action method?
Bryan
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From: "Taylor, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: getting MessageResources within ActionForm.reset()
Since the ActionServlet.ge
I'd try using indexed first, that monkey stuff is so silly, it can be kind
of frustrating.
I've done lists of stuff like this before and I initially made the mistake
of over-using nested tags. I found that if you have two or more dimensions
of arbitrary listing then you need nested, but if you
I'm not sure how you mean "nested" since there's a tag library called
"struts-nested" and I'm not sure if you're referring to that. If you're
using that, I think you may not need to, depending on the complexity of your
form.
If you have only one dimension of arbitrary length, it's not really a
ithin ActionForm.reset()
Why don't you do your initialization in the action method?
Bryan
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From: "Taylor, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: getting MessageResources within
Since the ActionServlet.getResources() method is now deprecated, you need a
request and an Action object to get Resources. That's fine so long as
you're operating within the Action class, but if you're in the ActionForm
object and you want to get Resources, you can't because
Action.getResources(H
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