thanks for the reply. I am not yet used to this mailing list, sorry for that, I probably could have continued this question in the same thread - but not knowing how to do that.
Niall you are probably right, that I should upgrade. Using Exadel and it's support for Struts, it only says struts 1.2 so I do not know if it is struts 1.2.4 or 1.2.7 or something else - reading on the subject now - so I would not know which upgrade to use and where to install that in the eclipse or exadel file-structure .... Do you have any advice on that ? this is what my log4j says: 1. 15:13:14,859 ERROR ValidatorForm:112 - org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks.validateMinLength( java.lang.Object, org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction, org.apache.commons.validator.Field, org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest) org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorException: org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks.validateMinLength( java.lang.Object, org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction, org.apache.commons.validator.Field, org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest) at org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction.loadValidationMethod( ValidatorAction.java:627) at org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction.executeValidationMethod( ValidatorAction.java:557) at org.apache.commons.validator.Field.validateForRule(Field.java :827) at org.apache.commons.validator.Field.validate(Field.java:906) at org.apache.commons.validator.Form.validate(Form.java:174) at org.apache.commons.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java :367) at org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorForm.validate( ValidatorForm.java:110) at se.svemab.struts.form.InputForm.validate(InputForm.java:30) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processValidate( RequestProcessor.java:950) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process( RequestProcessor.java:207) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process( ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost( ActionServlet.java:432) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter( ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter( ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke( StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke( StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke( StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke( ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke( StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service( CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process( Http11Processor.java:869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection (Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket( PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt( LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run( ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) regards, i