Steve, I'm a little confused. Your first item was just a change in the JRUN 3.1 web.xml file, correct? Or are you creating your own JRUN 3.1 action class loader to correctly preload the action class? And the second item regarding the "public void init" method (as seen below), is this a modification to the Struts source code, and a local rebuild of the struts.jar file? If so, I wanted to avoid this step, and use Struts 1.1b2 as is. To me a modification of the struts source code is just a "hack" workaround that will end up confusing the people who come after me on on this project.
public void init(javax.servlet.ServletConfig sc) throws javax.servlet.ServletException { Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader( this.getClass().getClassLoader()); super.init(sc); } } Let me know if I misunderstood you. If there is a better way to get Struts 1.1b2 working under JRUN 3.1, I will reconsider my decision to start our new project in Struts 1.02. But I have to come up with a way that does NOT involve an "obscure" or "hack" work around, so that when I move onto the next project, and leave these guys to maintain this, they can rebuild the system without someone remembering that something "unusual" had to be done to get the project restored onto the server. And modifying the Struts source code is NOT an acceptable option for us. What happened to our partner who was based in the World Trade Center taught us a lesson the hard way, when it comes to reinstalling your web apps on new hardware, and getting them up and running again. Thanks for any additional insight/advice you can offer. Celeste Haseltine, PE MTL, Inc Dallas, TX -----Original Message----- From: Steve Fyfe [mailto:sdf@;cnicorp.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Steps to Get JRUN 3.1 and Struts 1.1b2 working >As promised, I am posting the steps I took to get Struts 1.1b2 working in >JRUN 3.1. I only got the example application working, I did not bother to >get the other web apps bundled with Struts 1.1b2 working. So I can't >guarantee that I found EVERY problem in getting Struts 1.1b2 working in JRUN >3.1. As you can see, the steps necessary to get Struts 1.1b2 working are >such that you cannot run any 1.02 Struts apps on the same physical server in >JRUN 3.1. I cannot comment on all the steps you went through, but I do know that I was able to get my Struts application to load and run from the standard WEB-INF folders. So in my case, it should be possible to share the machine with Struts 1.0.2 based webapps. I avoided the classloader problems by using the following code to initialize the Action Servlet's context class loader at startup: /** * Inserts initialization code into the beginning of the ActionServlet. * <p> * For JRun 3.1, replace the class specified for the ActionServlet in web.xml with * the full name of this class. */ public class Struts11JrunAdaptor extends org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet { /** * Before running the code in the standard Struts v1.1 ActionServlet, initialize * the thread's classloader. This problem is fixed in JRun v4, so only use this * module on JRun v3.1. * * @param sc ServletContext for the current servlet * @throws ServletException If thrown by the super class. */ public void init(javax.servlet.ServletConfig sc) throws javax.servlet.ServletException { Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader( this.getClass().getClassLoader()); super.init(sc); } } I'm using JRun 3.1 on Win XP with JDK 1.3 I did this a while ago, so I may be overlooking some other critical configuration detail. Your milage may vary :-) Steve Fyfe CNI Corporation Milford NH 03055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>