Re: Accessing ApplicationResources in Action class

2006-06-12 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Hi Pankaj, This is the code I use when I need to get a resource string in an Action: String text = getResources(request).getMessage(getLocale(request), "messages.deleteFailed"); HTH, Frank Pankaj Gupta wrote: Hi, Can anyone please suggest how can I access ApplicationResources.properties f

Accessing ApplicationResources in Action class

2006-06-12 Thread Pankaj Gupta
Hi, Can anyone please suggest how can I access ApplicationResources.properties from my Action class. Specifically I want to read the labels for my LabelValueBean object from the application resources. regards, Pankaj - T

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Dakota Jack
The issue was not using the same code base, not a better apple. The issue was substituting a code base which was foreign to the very conceptual foundation of Struts, substituting an orange for an apple. But, you probably knew this. Struts needs to do a major shift. I think "lip service" is not

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Don Brown wrote: Technically, that isn't correct - PlugIn's are initialized once per module, which may or may not be once per application. Yes, good point, once per module, right. But "may or may not be once per application"? This part I'm not as sure about. The plugins, if memory serves. a

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
At this point I'd have to say I have no plans to migrate any apps... the shop I'm in is pretty conservative, as evidenced by the fact that we're still on 1.2.4 (although I snuck a 1.3 into QA a few weeks ago). I think it was Ted who said he thinks most people don't migrate apps upward in terms

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 6/12/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And, if we are creating a SAF1 emulator, why not just use SAF1? Let SAF1 handles the *.dos, and let SAF2 handle the *.actions. Having two frameworks to keep track of instead of one, each with their own idiosyncracies and release trains, is not

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Don Brown
From the start, we have made it a priority to allow Struts Action 1 and 2 applications to exist side-by-side, and in fact, we will probably end up shipping Struts Action 1 jars to make 2 a one-stop-shop. What I'm wondering if there are people that will be wanting to migrate an existing applicati

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Don Brown
Technically, that isn't correct - PlugIn's are initialized once per module, which may or may not be once per application. As for upgrading, I think converting a PlugIn to a context listener would be pretty easy, so what I'm thinking would be better targets of our work would be letting people use

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You raise a good point... is it possible to run both in the same context? I can't think of any reason why not, but then that changes the overall concept, doesn't it? If you can do that, is there any reason to even think about supporting most SAF1 concepts? (with a few exceptions of course, th

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
All of those things fire per-request though, a plugin fires only at app startup (and of course if ActionServlet is restarted by the container, but I think that's pretty rare). I think plugins are a different use case entirely, aren't they? I suppose we could recommend people use ContextListe

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Husted
On 6/12/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Unknown - I'm not seeing the ability to mark an action as mapping to unknown paths like you can in SAF1... am I just missing it? Yes, you can set a default-action in the configuration to use when nothing else matches. -Ted. --

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Husted
On 6/12/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Plug-ins... does SAF2 have an analogy for the Struts plug-in mechanism? If not, this should be looked at (it doesn't strike me as too tough if it has to be developed). Depending on the use case, you'd either use an interceptor, depende

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Husted
On 6/12/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * HTML tag libraries - unless I'm mistaken, most, if not all of them, should work if an ActionForm is emulated and placed in scope... do any of them use anything else? Yep. One tag or other other uses everything, and everything has to be

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Joe Germuska
At 5:18 PM -0400 6/12/06, Ted Husted wrote: In the field, it seems like that once a Struts application hits production, it continues to use the same version. A new application might use 1.2, but the old ones continue to plug along on 1.1. If it ain't broke, why fix it? This is definitely not tr

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Some random thoughts, all of which could be way wrong :) ... * ActionForms - What makes an ActionForm different than a SAF2 Action? The validate() method, and the reset() method, primarily. I propose creating a StrutsActionFormAware marker interface... when an Action implements it, reset() an

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Don Brown
Ok, good, that is what I am looking for: what part of your Struts app would you want to not touch if you could help it in a migration? I agree with Ted that migrating the best of Struts Action 1 is great, but I think there is also a need to not require an application migration to change everythin

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread netsql
How little do I have to change my JSP! .V 6. HTML tag libraries 7. Other (please explain) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Husted
On 6/12/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are also the cases where an existing app is going to be substantially re-implemented, and the natural question will be whether or not to upgrade the underlying framework to take advantage of new features. If SAF2 doesn't even pay lip

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 6/12/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/12/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/12/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please let us know your thoughts so we can focus on developing tools > > to make migration as easy as possible. Thanks, > > My first thought

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Dion Gillard
On 6/13/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/12/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please let us know your thoughts so we can focus on developing tools > to make migration as easy as possible. Thanks, My first thought would be how would migrating one part without the others w

Re: [Shale] tiger - abstract base class?

2006-06-12 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 6/12/06, Adam Brod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi- I want to define a managed property in an abstract base class using shale-tiger annotations. Then the subclasses can use the same property. You're trying to use @Property on the abstract base class, right? Is this possible? So far, it d

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Don Brown
On 6/12/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/12/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please let us know your thoughts so we can focus on developing tools > to make migration as easy as possible. Thanks, My first thought would be how would migrating one part without the others wo

[Shale] tiger - abstract base class?

2006-06-12 Thread Adam Brod
Hi- I want to define a managed property in an abstract base class using shale-tiger annotations. Then the subclasses can use the same property. Is this possible? So far, it doesn't seem to work. Jpa allows for mapped superclasses that are abstract, so the same thing would be great in JSF as

Re: Page does not refresh after action

2006-06-12 Thread Rizwan Merchant
Hi Richard, I tried this and it still doesnt work..here is a snippet from my jsp.. Not sure why this wont work..!! <%@ include file="/taglibs.jsp"%>

RE: Problem loading/invoking struts app

2006-06-12 Thread Adari, Chandra
Thanks for the response. It is websphere 6 and I did play with classloaders to fix this. Both the working and non-working machines are set to "Parent first" at server level, application level and module level. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chandra. -Original Message- From:

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Husted
On 6/12/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please let us know your thoughts so we can focus on developing tools to make migration as easy as possible. Thanks, My first thought would be how would migrating one part without the others would serve any practical purpose? My second thought w

RE: Problem loading/invoking struts app

2006-06-12 Thread Duane Rosengartner
It appears your classloader is picking up the wrong jar. If this is websphere 6, it comes with a jdom.jar that has given us problems similar to yours. Attempt to use the parent-first parent last setting; match with your working environment. It should be under the server(or node) properties. If this

Re: Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Leon Rosenberg
2. 1. 4. 5. 6. 3. regards leon On 6/12/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As we approach the topic of migration for Struts Action 1 applications to Struts Action 2, I want to find out what we should focus on first. You are able to run both frameworks side-by-side, but for the developers t

Problem loading/invoking struts app

2006-06-12 Thread Adari, Chandra
I am getting the following error during run time (ERROR Stack during Runtime) when I invoke the Login.do. Please find the error stack down below. I tried to put some debug statements and what I found was "module config" is coming "null". I tried the same exact ear on a different machine and it work

RE: Page does not refresh after action

2006-06-12 Thread Yee, Richard K CTR DMDC
Try putting this in your of your jsp -Richard -Original Message- From: Rizwan Merchant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:34 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Page does not refresh after action Hi, I tried setting the response headers in the actio

Re: Page does not refresh after action

2006-06-12 Thread Rizwan Merchant
Hi, I tried setting the response headers in the action before forwarding to the appropriate jsp page...but the pages are still cached for some reason...here is what i did..please can you tell me what I am doing wrong. Thanks. In the action method... request.setAttribute("orders", order

Poll: What part of a Struts will be the most important to support for migration?

2006-06-12 Thread Don Brown
As we approach the topic of migration for Struts Action 1 applications to Struts Action 2, I want to find out what we should focus on first. You are able to run both frameworks side-by-side, but for the developers that want to migrate a Struts 1.x application to Action 2, what aspect of a Struts A

RE: Struts Complete Reference, chp6 is not working

2006-06-12 Thread Givler, Eric
Are you sure that the version of the code that you are using is consistent with the version of the Struts version that you are using? If the signature for the validator-rules methods has changed since the example that was provided, then it's not going to call those methods. You should be see

[Shale] Nightly Builds Resumed

2006-06-12 Thread Craig McClanahan
pts to use Maven2 instead. When completed, it will be *much* easier to build Shale, or applications based on Shale. However, in the mean time, I'm pleased to announce that creation of nightly builds for Shale have been restored. You can get the 20060612 version from: http://people.ap

Re: Page does not refresh after action

2006-06-12 Thread Albert L. Sapp
Rizwan Merchant wrote: Hi Manoj, Thanks for the response. This happens with both FF and IE. I am not sure I understand your question "Also where are u persisting the order (session db ..where)that you change in the action that is not reflected in the forwarded page". When I click on the ca

RE: Struts Complete Reference, chp6 is not working

2006-06-12 Thread A. Lotfi
I did check the errata and downlod the code from his website, but it does not work, I sent email to James, but still waiting. thanks David Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you checked the author's website, the errata (mistakes lists) and/or downloaded their updated example code and tr

Re: Page does not refresh after action

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Do the pages have the same URL? Set "no-cache" response header either individually for that page, or globally for a whole Struts application using . On 6/9/06, Rizwan Merchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a page with a bunch of orders, and each order has a "Cancel" button next to it an

Re: [shale] downloads

2006-06-12 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 6/12/06, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/12/06, Ian.Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has the shale download site gone down? I can't see any directories under > http://cvs.apache.org/builds/struts/nightly/struts-shale/... Sorry for the inconvenience, but we're in the process o

Re: Page does not refresh after action

2006-06-12 Thread Rizwan Merchant
Hi Manoj, Thanks for the response. This happens with both FF and IE. I am not sure I understand your question "Also where are u persisting the order (session db ..where)that you change in the action that is not reflected in the forwarded page". When I click on the cancel button, the page rel

RE: Struts Complete Reference, chp6 is not working

2006-06-12 Thread David Friedman
Have you checked the author's website, the errata (mistakes lists) and/or downloaded their updated example code and tried that?I always do that because typos sneak in every time. See: http://www.jamesholmes.com/StrutsTCR/ Code examples are downloadable at: http://www.jamesholmes.com/StrutsTC

Struts Complete Reference, chp6 is not working

2006-06-12 Thread A. Lotfi
Hi, I bought the book "Struts The Complete Reference", trying to learn validator, but when I tried the code it does not work, I don't know what's missing in that code, when I type a bad social security number , I always get : No Employees Found. __

Re: Unable to find "foo" forward

2006-06-12 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Hi, I take it this is running in production, hence the reason you don't know where/when it's happening? I *was* going to suggest this: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsLogging It activates a *boatload* of logging, and it does tend to help you find problems like this. But, I would defintely

Tiles and recursive putLists

2006-06-12 Thread Kenneth Østby
Hi.. Please forgive me if this isn't the right mailinglist for Tiles. I'm trying a little hack using recursive putLists and items.. It looks like this http://www.vg.no"/> And in my JSP file I have something that looks like ( Warning, Spring code ) : // Output

RE: Best approach

2006-06-12 Thread Ronald Traikovich
One way to do is to use lookupdispatch action where each button is assigned it's own method in action class. Do a google search on it or If ya have any books on struts, lookup this action. Another way to do it is to have a hidden variable set when a user clicks a button. This gets set in the form

Re: [shale] downloads

2006-06-12 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 6/12/06, Ian.Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has the shale download site gone down? I can't see any directories under http://cvs.apache.org/builds/struts/nightly/struts-shale/... Sorry for the inconvenience, but we're in the process of converting to Maven 2 and nightly builds should be ba

[shale] downloads

2006-06-12 Thread Ian.Priest
Has the shale download site gone down? I can't see any directories under http://cvs.apache.org/builds/struts/nightly/struts-shale/...

Best approach

2006-06-12 Thread Maya menon
All, I have 4 buttons in a jsp. The four should do four different things, with 2 being Submit and Cancel. Is it a good way to write 3 different action classes or just one action class ? Which is a good approach ? Thanks __ Do You

Unable to find "foo" forward

2006-06-12 Thread Xavier Vanderstukken
Hello, In my stdout, I find the following warning : 2006-06-12 14:16:28,095 [http-8080-Processor24] WARN org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping - Unable to find 'Success' forward. 2006-06-12 14:16:28,095 [http-8080-Processor24] WARN org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping - Unable to find 'Suc

Re: sessions

2006-06-12 Thread Thomas Joseph
+1 using login fileter is a good way. This would be transparent and headach free too. Your Struts would not have to know about this application security. everything will be transparently handled by the filter. Again check for some session attributs (eg, user name), if it is null, use a global for

Re: sessions

2006-06-12 Thread basudeb . acharya
you can create a servlet filter. i have used a custom tag to be there in each .jsp that checks the session attribute. another way of doing is to use the template pattern, that is create a base action whose execute method checks the session attribute and calls the executeImpl abstract method, t

Re: sessions

2006-06-12 Thread Gareth Evans
Hi, Create a subclass of the request processor and override either the processRoles() or the processPreprocess() methods. You can check if the session attribute exists here and you won't need to duplicate code in each action. Gareth Abhimanyu Koul wrote: but the problem with that approach

Re: sessions

2006-06-12 Thread Abhimanyu Koul
but the problem with that approach would be that i would have to write same code for every action or call the same method for each action. i want that it should be automatically done for each action at the requestprocessor level so that every developer doesn't have to worry about it. ? Regards, A

Re: How to retrieve value of hashmap parameter in action class

2006-06-12 Thread Richard Yee
Nikita, You need to change this: action="/ListAction.do" > to this: Then in your action, access the parameters using request.getParameter(String name) method with "var1", "var2", and "var3" as the values for name. -Richard Nikita Desai wrote: Hi, I have one problem regarding how to ret

RE: sessions

2006-06-12 Thread Mukta
If you have some session attributes in your application, then it is very easy to do so. Whenever a user directly tries to access any action, first try to get that session attribute. If it is null, redirect to login page. -Original Message- From: Abhimanyu Koul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sessions

2006-06-12 Thread The Jasper
hi, You could use a login filter. Have the filter check if they are logged in via a session attribute. If the person is logged, then fine. Otherwise redirect to the login page. On logging in you set the session attribute. Now just set the web.xml so that everything has to go through the login fil

[OT] Taglib for rendering a calendar

2006-06-12 Thread C. Grobmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, sorry for this ot post, but i believe some body of you had this before. does somebody know a taglib which renders a small calendar? Something like this: http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/caltag.htm in open source would be great. regards, chr

sessions

2006-06-12 Thread Abhimanyu Koul
hi all! i want to use session validation in my application. no user should be allowed to view any page without logging in. if any user say copies the action from the properties window into the address bar of the browser, he should be directed to the login page. no error message should be shown n

Re: tiles and forwards

2006-06-12 Thread Antonio Petrelli
Rudolf Lang ha scritto: The next is, how can I get the actual tilesDefintion in the locale.jsp (perhaps by jstl and EL) or in the LocaleAction.java ? Do you mean that you want to get the definition the file "locale.jsp" is in? If yes I think it is better to start a new thread, because I don't

Re: check invalid date with validator framework

2006-06-12 Thread The Jasper
On 6/9/06, Shoukat, Faisal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to check if the date is a valid date in the validator framework. If I enter a invalid date such as 67/06/2006 it returns me the error message Created Date is not a valid date format (dd/mm/). Which is the error.date in my

Re: How to retrieve value of hashmap parameter in action class

2006-06-12 Thread Sony Thomas
Hi Nikita, Here is some code snippet which will help you. java.util.Map paramMap = new java.util.HashMap(); paramMap.put("id",id); paramMap.put("locationId",locationId); pageCo

How to retrieve value of hashmap parameter in action class

2006-06-12 Thread Nikita Desai
Hi, I have one problem regarding how to retrieve value of hashmap parameter action action of struts. In jsp page I have code like this <% java.util.HashMap params = new java.util.HashMap(); params.put("var1","1"); params.put("var2","10"); params.put("var3","1"); request.setAttr