Re: Who decides?

2005-09-12 Thread Brandon Mercer
Steve Beaver wrote: Let me give everyone a major hint. What most programmers are doing today is NOT even close to Innovative. The guys that did the real work, started in this IT business back in the 1960' and 1970's, when his business WAS Rocket Science I'd have to agree. We're building on

Re: nested c:forEach and html-el:link

2005-09-08 Thread Brandon Mercer
Lombart Vincent (DBB) wrote: Dear all, Does anybody know why the following JSP code does not work: table border=1 cellspacing=0 tbody c:forEach items=${monitorBean.rows} var=irow tr c:forEach items=${irow.columns} var=icol tdhtml-el:link action=monitor

Re: nested c:forEach and html-el:link

2005-09-08 Thread Brandon Mercer
Lombart Vincent (DBB) wrote: That's the kind of solution I was looking at, although using c:url with included c:param might be more robust. But I would prefer to use the action name rather than the direct url. Eh, good call! I was trying to quickly relay a point and I don't remeber the

Nested Beans

2005-05-20 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello Everyone, I've got an easy one, that is stupifying me because of my tiredness. I've got a POJO with a List in it. The List is a list of beans. In my JSP page I'm trying to iterate over the list of beans. Here goes: public class Information { private String name = null; private

Re: Nested Beans

2005-05-20 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hubert Rabago wrote: You might find the nested tags interesting: %@ taglib uri=/WEB-INF/struts-nested.tld prefix=nested % nested:root name=information nested:write property=name/br/ nested:write property=addr/br/ nested:iterate property=school nested:write

Re: Nested Beans

2005-05-20 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hubert Rabago wrote: You might find the nested tags interesting: %@ taglib uri=/WEB-INF/struts-nested.tld prefix=nested % nested:root name=information nested:write property=name/br/ nested:write property=addr/br/ nested:iterate property=school nested:write

Re: Tag bean:write inside a cell.

2005-04-05 Thread Brandon Mercer
Marcelo Epstein wrote: Thanks Jeff, But it is not working. I inserted : table { empty-cells: show; } inside my css file. But the cells when the attribute of the bean is null still appears no border. :-( Any sugestion? Or sample code? You'll have to make sure that the table you're

Re: Multi Step Forms

2005-04-04 Thread Brandon Mercer
Brian McGovern wrote: I have a situation where i need to have a multi screen form, lets say 3 steps. On the successfull validation of the 3rd step. I want to save the data into the DB. This data would have been collected starting on step one, through step 3 and ecapsulated in 1 or more

Re: Multi Step Forms

2005-04-04 Thread Brandon Mercer
Brian McGovern wrote: Sounds good. I think I want to only have 1 write to the db at the end of Action3, and im hoping to not use the session cause this app is gonna have alot of users. By saving it on the page, are you talkin about using hidden form fields across the 3 pages or can i set the

Re: The F5 problem - Best Practice (ActionHierarchy)

2005-03-23 Thread Brandon Mercer
Bernd Schiffer wrote: Hi Leon. I did what you mentioned as the second approach and used a token (precisely: locking mechanism, because in my case it's not delete but edit) to avoid F5 problems. But I'm not happy with that, because, you already said that, the user sees edit.do in the URL and

Re: Two cancel buttons in one form

2005-03-22 Thread Brandon Mercer
Abdullah Jibaly wrote: Hi all, I want to have two cancel buttons in a form, however I run into the problem of not being able to distinguish which one is being pressed (one cancels the whole operation and the other returns to the first screen). The reason is that they both use the

Re: multi-page validation form

2005-03-22 Thread Brandon Mercer
Jack Perrett wrote: I'm trying to create a form that will be validated over a series of jsp's. I'm using the page property with individual fields to specify whether they should be validated on a particular page and then setting the hidden page property to whatever the corurrent jsp page. This

Re: multi-page validation form

2005-03-22 Thread Brandon Mercer
I'm effectively submitting a form with the hidden page property set to 2. any ideas what else could be stopping it? - Original Message - From: Brandon Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:04 PM Subject: Re: multi-page

Re: multi-page validation form

2005-03-22 Thread Brandon Mercer
more help. Good luck! Brandon property http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/dev_validator.html - Original Message - From: Brandon Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:29 PM Subject: Re: multi-page validation form

Re: AppFuse - Impressions?

2005-03-02 Thread Brandon Mercer
David Johnson wrote: Related question. Isnt spring sort of an alternative to Struts? Can they work together? How? :) Yes, struts+spring is the default for the appfuse toolkit. And they play together WONDERFULLY. For instance, lets say that you have a view you'd like to use... Jasper Reports

Re: Spring Framework Good or Bad

2005-03-02 Thread Brandon Mercer
Mathew, Manoj wrote: Hi guys I am in the design face of a huge J2ee web application. Though my application is a very good candidate to go for EJBs, I am so reluctant to go with it, based on my previous bad experiences. I was looking at Spring. What you guys think about that? Spring is great.

Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser

2005-03-01 Thread Brandon Mercer
Slattery, Tim - BLS wrote: Yes, I can. The limitation is that for every post or get, you can only have ONE multipart/mime file. When you have multiple file elements you actually perform multiple posts to submit each one. I disagree. You can have any number of input type=file...

Re: Hibernate and Struts Usage Pattern question/survey

2005-03-01 Thread Brandon Mercer
Joe Hertz wrote: Curious as to which concept Struts/Hibernate implementers like more for implementation: #1- Ted Husted's example of Struts and Hibernate. Stick the Hibernate Session object into the httpServletRequest. Every action has a fresh Hibernate Session raring to go if it needs it. Then

Re: Hibernate and Struts Usage Pattern question/survey

2005-03-01 Thread Brandon Mercer
Joe Hertz wrote: I've been hearing this from the Spring set. I'm waiting for a good book to come out on it. www.springlive.com a REALLY good book for more than just spring. It's 30 bucks online, money WELL spent. Brandon -

Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser

2005-02-28 Thread Brandon Mercer
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Ok, let me play a bit tonight and see what I can come up with. I'm more worried about the server-side processing than the front-end, but even that shouldn't be terrible. I'll let you know what I come up with tomorrow... The problems you all are talking about are

Re: Development Tool

2005-02-12 Thread Brandon Mercer
Metin Erksan wrote: hi what are its advantages ? what did you use before ? It's a very cleanly laid out tool (which is basically a build script on steriods) that creates validation, jsp forms, form, action, managers, DAO, test classes, database tables and everything like that just from one

Development Tool

2005-02-11 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello Everyone, I found this really useful development tool and wanted to share it for anyone who hasn't already found it. It's called AppFuse. http://raibledesigns.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=AppFuse great documentation and it works really well too. Have fun Brandon

Struts Wireless Question

2005-02-09 Thread Brandon Mercer
Does anyone in here have any experience converting existing struts applications to work on wireless? If so, I'd appreciate any docs/advice you could give. Also, if anyone knows of a linux emulator that I could test these apps out on as I go, I'd really appreciate it. I've already found the

Re: Avoid resubmit

2005-02-03 Thread Brandon Mercer
Kalluru Uma. Maheswar wrote: What is this Token System? How to use it? Two lines of code really! When you create the form you'll do public ActionForward yourForm( final ActionMapping mapping, final ActionForm form, final HttpServletRequest request, final HttpServletResponse

Re: Avoid resubmit

2005-02-03 Thread Brandon Mercer
is processing. On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:39:57 -0500, Brandon Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kalluru Uma. Maheswar wrote: What is this Token System? How to use it? Two lines of code really! When you create the form you'll do public ActionForward yourForm( final ActionMapping mapping, final

WAY OT Database Crossroads

2005-02-01 Thread Brandon Mercer
Ok, I've officially NOT followed some standard somewhere. :-( Shame on me! Can somebody help me with the following predicament? I've got a table of transactions that need to be processed. In that table I have a column for that persons account number... which gets assigned in a different

Re: WAY OT Database Crossroads

2005-02-01 Thread Brandon Mercer
Larry Meadors wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:09:46 +0100, PA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Static inner classes, static. Those are simply an extension of the namespace. Contrast this with the sorry freak of nature which are plain inner classes. HAHAHAH! I just inherited some code with a pile of

Accessing Database Information

2005-01-30 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello, I've got Ted Husted's book Struts in Action and I really like it. I've also got another book Professional Jakarta Struts. They both talk about accessing information from a database and DAO and DTO and all that jazz and quite frankly I don't understand it. :-P Right now I'm in the

Re: New session on submit?

2005-01-28 Thread Brandon Mercer
Brad Balmer wrote: I am using the 1.2.4 release and am finding that when I submit a form to a plain Action, a new HttpSession is automatically created and replacing the session that I already am using. I have a simple search form where when the form is initially brought up, the reset() function

Popup window submitting to action

2005-01-27 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello, I've got a slighty off topic question for the group. I've got a pop-up window that I use in my application where my client can create a new contact. I wish to have the information write to the database, and close the pop-up window, and then refresh the page it came from. I know this

Re: Popup window submitting to action

2005-01-27 Thread Brandon Mercer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's probably a couple of ways to do this, here's one... I think you can handle the submitting on the popup and closing the window no problem, but before you do the close, call a Javascript function in the parent of the popup that will submit a form to do the refresh

Re: Popup window submitting to action

2005-01-27 Thread Brandon Mercer
Cedric Levieux wrote: Here what you want in the page retrieved after the submit action and reached via this action : html head /head body script language=JavaScript !-- window.opener.location.reload(); window.close(); // -- /script Thanks, it works BEAUTIFULLY :-D Brandon

Another ODBC OT Question

2005-01-27 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello, Ok, I've got another off topic question :-P. That's two in a day! Three strikes and I'm out. lol Anyhow, I am inserting information into a database and I need to get the auto_increment value from my first insert and use the value it returns to create an entry in another table. Does

Re: Another ODBC OT Question

2005-01-27 Thread Brandon Mercer
Barnett, Brian W. wrote: What rdbms are you using? Sorry, that would have been helpful huh! lol MySQL Connector/J (obviously) 3.0.x. I think I know how to get the last id... but do I create another insert the same way I did the first? Thanks, Brandon

Re: Another ODBC OT Question

2005-01-27 Thread Brandon Mercer
Erik Weber wrote: Sorry for all those local disk links and other junk. Cut and paste. Thanks everyone this article http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/autoincrement-with-connectorj.html was the ticket for me. We all know how it gets when you're writing code all day long and you start

Re: Action Returning to previous page

2005-01-21 Thread Brandon Mercer
Will Stranathan wrote: Hello again, I've found this interesting and seemingly useful piece of information in a struts book I recently obtained. Dynamic Forwards ActionForward forward = new ActionForward(/do/itemEdit?action=edit); Then it goes on to tell me to use the runtime parameter techniques

Re: Action Returning to previous page

2005-01-20 Thread Brandon Mercer
Will Stranathan wrote: snip My apologies for not reading first - yeah - use a dynamic one like jack said. I would PROBABLY subclass Action with an abstract subclass - something like: public ... execute(...) { // This overrides Action.execute() // Do whatever up-front checking ... //

Re: Action Returning to previous page

2005-01-20 Thread Brandon Mercer
Will Stranathan wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:16:34 -0800 Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2) Specify a forward / for the Action that sends the user back to from whence they came. I don't think I can do this because they may come from a number of pages. /snip You can specify a

Action Returning to previous page

2005-01-19 Thread Brandon Mercer
Is there a way to have an action return to the page that it was submitted from? This is what I have and what I'd like to do: I've got a page that has a template in it for looking up account numbers. This template goes in EVERY page in my application. I also have other pages that perform

Re: Action Returning to previous page

2005-01-19 Thread Brandon Mercer
Will Stranathan wrote: Not positive I completely understand the question, so I'll make a very vague response. Yeah, after I read it I didn't make much sense to myself either. :-P You can: 1) Use the input attribute of an Action to specify the page that fed it - if the validate() method on the

General Action Question

2005-01-10 Thread Brandon Mercer
out each value) if I need to use the second example to work with DynaActionForms. I'm using multi-page forms, but I insert the values into the JSP page for each new page in the wizard. Thanks for any help, as I'm fresh with struts. Brandon Mercer

Re: html:option tag and Hashtable..is it possible

2005-01-10 Thread Brandon Mercer
Ashish Kulkarni wrote: Hi How do i display a drop down box from hashtable data here is my form definiation form-bean dynamic=true name=loginForm type=org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm form-property name=as400list type=java.util.Hashtable / /form-bean in my html i define html:form