Overriding the init() method in the Action Servlet.

2005-08-20 Thread Anuradha S.Athreya
Hello, I understand it is possible to override the init() method in the Action Servlet class. How can I go about achieving this? What are the changes that I need to make in the web.xml. I need to introduce this in my application, since I need to initialize certain parameters during application

RE: Overriding the init() method in the Action Servlet.

2005-08-20 Thread Mark Benussi
In the web.xml your servlet for handling struts requests should currently be org.apache.struts.actions.ActionServlet. Change this class to you own that extends this class and then you can override any methods -Original Message- From: Anuradha S.Athreya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20

[Shale] What's the deal with the dollar signs?

2005-08-20 Thread David G. Friedman
I thought I'd read some Shale documents a while ago mentioning the purpose for the dollar signs in the example use cases but while speed-reading though various Shale documents, I'm totally missing that. Can someone point that out to me? Thanks, David

Re: Using custom tags and struts together

2005-08-20 Thread Murray Collingwood
Thanks for the responses to my question. I agree totally with what you are saying, to try generating Struts tags from a Custom tag is completely the wrong approach - I can see that now (you know, I see the light :-) Let me explain what I am trying to do, maybe somebody can point me in the

Re: [Shale] What's the deal with the dollar signs?

2005-08-20 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 8/20/05, David G. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd read some Shale documents a while ago mentioning the purpose for the dollar signs in the example use cases but while speed-reading though various Shale documents, I'm totally missing that. Can someone point that out to me?

RE: [Shale] What's the deal with the dollar signs?

2005-08-20 Thread David G. Friedman
Craig, I was actually referring to the class names. I was confused by the use cases app which didn't list the faces ViewHandler, NavigationHandler, etc. Is there another working example which could show me how those work? I only saw the use case using the ShaleFilter, not the Shale JSF parts.

Re: [Shale] What's the deal with the dollar signs?

2005-08-20 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 8/20/05, David G. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig, I was actually referring to the class names. I was confused by the use cases app which didn't list the faces ViewHandler, NavigationHandler, etc. Is there another working example which could show me how those work? I only saw

Best Design Practice

2005-08-20 Thread karthikeyan balasubramanian
Hi all, I know this question has been asked before but still I would like to get some expert opinion. If Struts only falls into UI layer then what you guys use for Business Layer and Persistence Layer. Is there a working example which covers all these 3 layers with Struts falling into UI

Re: Best Design Practice

2005-08-20 Thread Sergey Pariev
Hi. You might look at AppFuse - http://appfuse.dev.java.net - it's a sample app with Spring as business layer and Hibernate\iBatis as Persistence. HTH, Sergey. karthikeyan balasubramanian пишет: Hi all, I know this question has been asked before but still I would like to get some expert

LookupDispatchForm - Lookup Dispatch Form

2005-08-20 Thread Toll, Marvin \(M.\)
The book Struts Recipes introduces the notion of a DispatchForm to compliment DispatchAction. Our organization recommends using LookupDispatchAction. I'm wondering if anyone has knowledge of: 1) An implementation of a base LookupDispatchForm supporting discreet (button selection dependent)

domain missing from html:rewrite html:link etc

2005-08-20 Thread Albrecht Leiprecht
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:17:43 -0700 Mark Benussi asked a question ...When using html:link (A struts tag library) and the other associated tags (rewrite etc) the domain is missing... I moved my pages today too... same effect ... What was the reason in your case, and what did help solving this

Re: html:form not generating name= attribute

2005-08-20 Thread Morris Jones
Don Brown wrote: You probably enabled xhtml output rendering, which renders an id attribute instead. Unfortunately, client-side validation in xhtml is currently broken in Struts 1.2.7, so you can either checkout and build commons-validator or wait until the next release. Thanks Don, yes I

Re: Overriding the init() method in the Action Servlet.

2005-08-20 Thread Sudhaker Raj
You can try struts-plugin to execute startup code. I would avoid making changes in core behaviors if possible without changing them. On 8/20/05, Anuradha S.Athreya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I understand it is possible to override the init() method in the Action Servlet class. How

Re: Using custom tags and struts together

2005-08-20 Thread Dave Newton
Murray Collingwood wrote: I could use a logic:greaterThan... tag to test the value of the security number and then display the link if appropriate. This gets more complicated when the security number 3 is used, as then I have to test values on the record as well, suddenly I have nested

Re: [Friday] [somewhat-ajax-related] XMLHttpRequest scoping problems

2005-08-20 Thread Sudhaker Raj
You may want to check OpenRICO - http://openrico.org Cheers, On 8/19/05, David Durham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi -- There's been some traffic on this list involving XMLHttpRequests and javascript, and since it's Friday ... My problem: How to use multiple asynchronous requests

View side

2005-08-20 Thread Rafael Taboada
Hi folks... I'm going to start a new project using my favorite framework: Struts. In my first project (it isn't finished yet) for VIEW side I used taglibs with a little JSTL (core). All work fine... But with the new topic I heard in this list about AJAX, JSF, VELOCITY... I'm confused how to

Re: Using custom tags and struts together

2005-08-20 Thread Wendy Smoak
I hope you are getting the picture. This is why I was trying to use a custom tag that could still interact with my model, call business methods to make security decisions and vary the generated link accordingly. And finally the question: How should I go about writing the Update link now that

Re: Best Design Practice

2005-08-20 Thread Eric C. Hein
Try Rick's site: http://www.reumann.net/struts/main.do - Original Message - From: karthikeyan balasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 3:07 AM Subject: Best Design Practice Hi all, I know this question

Re: Overriding the init() method in the Action Servlet.

2005-08-20 Thread Laurie Harper
Another option is to have your startup code in its own, separate servlet (or you could use a context listener). Unless you specifically need to alter behaviour of the standard ActionServlet, keeping your startup code separate probably makes more sense. L. Sudhaker Raj wrote: You can try

Re: Overriding the init() method in the Action Servlet.

2005-08-20 Thread Wendy Smoak
From: Anuradha S.Athreya [EMAIL PROTECTED] I understand it is possible to override the init() method in the Action Servlet class. How can I go about achieving this? What are the changes that I need to make in the web.xml. I need to introduce this in my application, since I need to initialize

List selection manager 'widget'

2005-08-20 Thread Laurie Harper
Does anybody have, or know of, a good HTML form 'widget' for managing value lists, something like AvailableSelected +-+ ++ | item A || || | item B ||| | item C ||| | ... | |||

Re: Overriding the init() method in the Action Servlet.

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Germuska
At 12:23 PM -0400 8/20/05, Sudhaker Raj wrote: You can try struts-plugin to execute startup code. I would avoid making changes in core behaviors if possible without changing them. I would agree with this, and with Wendy's post. If you need certain things to happen at servlet initialization

Re: List selection manager 'widget'

2005-08-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Hi Laurie, I built such a widget some years ago... it's probably not in the form you want (i.e., it's not just a new tag to use), but it might be worth a look... I'll see if I can dig it out of the archives. It also had the ability to reorder the elements in the selected items box if that's

Re: View side

2005-08-20 Thread Lucas Bern
Hi Rafael... I have been developing in a project with struts hibernate and JSP for front end... my experience was great, I think JSP is the best idea, sometimes I get surprised with the results you can see coupling differents cutsom tags. Velocity is a great technology, but, remember it is not

Re: View side

2005-08-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
That wasn't even the FIRST AjaxTags... http://struts.sourceforge.net/ajaxtags/index.html And then there's the currently-supported version: http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/javadocs/index.html Sorry... the AjaxTags you referenced is kind of a sore point for me... the authors were less than

Re: Using custom tags and struts together

2005-08-20 Thread Murray Collingwood
Thanks Wendy I think the idea of using a security bean is what I need to do. Kind regards mc On 20 Aug 2005 at 9:50, Wendy Smoak wrote: I hope you are getting the picture. This is why I was trying to use a custom tag that could still interact with my model, call business methods to

Re: View side

2005-08-20 Thread Martin Gainty
Rafael Using any technology which transmits only deltas between client and server has my vote Especially when those deltas are transmitted using standardised XML formats.. +1 for Ajax Buena Suerte Martin - Original Message - From: Rafael Taboada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts List