Seeing that you have set the validate attribute to true in struts-config.xml, you don't even need the validate method in the form.
As far as I know, that is the only difference in using ValidationActionForm and ValidatorForm. However, I used the ValidatorActionForm as I had a need to do that. In your case, I would advise to investigate further and try to get things done with ValidatorForm as this means that there is DEFINITELY something wrong somewhere which might cause problems later. If you do decide to go with ValidatorActionForm, yes, you just need the getter/setter methods and nothing else. One thing you must remember is that ValidatorActionForm is available in the struts package in Struts 1.2.8. But from Struts 1.3, its available under a separate package called "struts extras". So, if you will be moving from 1.2.8 to 1.3, this is something you must consider. Harsh. -----Original Message----- From: josh t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 4:06 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: extending ValidationForm instead of ValidatorActionForm So are you saying that the only thing that changes when you switch from extending ValidationForm to ValidatorActionForm is the value in <form name="action vs. form"> ? Do I need to be implementing any other methos in my Form, or is what I have enough? "Chaudhary, Harsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My first thought was that you might be using an action as you validation key i.e., in validation.xml, instead of: you had: But this is not the case. So, I can't really tell why this is happening. Harsh. -----Original Message----- From: josh t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 3:47 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: extending ValidationForm instead of ValidatorActionForm Sure. Here is the relevent section of my validation.xml and struts-config.xml. Note that this error only happens when I use ValidationForm. And I have no clue what that excpetion is! Any thoughts? >From struts-config.xml type="com.pac.its.action.form.LoginForm"/> type="com.pac.its.action.security.LoginAction" name="loginForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="/WEB-INF/pages/login.jsp"> >From Validation.xml: My Validator-rule.xml classname="org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks" method="validateRequired" methodParams="java.lang.Object, org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction, org.apache.commons.validator.Field, org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest" msg="errors.required"/> "Chaudhary, Harsh" wrote: Could you also include of you validation.xml and struts-config.xml? Harsh. -----Original Message----- From: josh t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 2:38 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: extending ValidationForm instead of ValidatorActionForm When my form extends Strut's ValidationForm instead of ValidatorActionForm, I get the following exception when my form gets loaded for the first time. Any idea what this is? Also, I've copied my sample form here. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong. Many Thanks! MY Form (Do I need the validate method here? ): import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping; import org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorForm; public class LoginForm extends ValidatorForm { private String password; public String getPassword() { return password; } public void setPassword(String password) { this.password = password; } public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) { return super.validate(mapping, request); } } Exception is: 2006-05-12 11:39:12,129 [HttpRequestHandler-1635615] ERROR org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorForm.validate - org.apache.s truts.validator.FieldChecks.validateRequired(java.lang.Object, org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction, org.apache.commo ns.validator.Field, org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest) org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorException: org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks.validateRequired(java.lang.Objec t, o rg.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction, org.apache.commons.validator.Field, org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages, jav ax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest) at org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction.loadValidationMethod(Valida torAction.java:627) at org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction.executeValidationMethod(Val idatorAction.java:557) at org.apache.commons.validator.Field.validateForRule(Field.java:811) at org.apache.commons.validator.Field.validate(Field.java:890) 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:11 0) at com.raytheon.its.action.form.LoginForm.validate(LoginForm.java:37) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processValidate(RequestProcess or.java:927) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java: 204) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestD ispatcher.java:765) at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(Servle tRequestDispatcher.java:317) at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHa ndler.java:790) at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java: 270) at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java: 112) at com.evermind.util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(Releasab leResourcePooledExecutor.java:186) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) --------------------------------- New Yahoo! 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