RE: Action to invoke a tile definition?

David: Hmmm. I was playing around with my struts-config and got it working somehow. It looks the same to me, but I cant argue with results. It must have been that I had a wrong version on my dev server. Sorry for any inconvenience to the list members. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal,

RE: Action to invoke a tile definition?

Neil, Your error messages suggest Struts failed to load. You should check the Tomcat log files in $CATALINA_HOME/logs to determine what caused Struts not to load. Regards, David -Original Message- From: Neil Aggarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:05 PM To:

RE: Application Security

A shot in the dark here: Are the request params in SecurityFilter still around if you forward to a Struts action. Say like this? (I do this, but I don't try to access the params). FORM /do/LoginRequired /do/LoginError /do/SuccessfulLogin If so, it should b

RE: Application Security

A shot in the dark here: Are the request params in SecurityFilter still around if you forward to a Struts action. Say like this? (I do this, but I don't try to access the params). FORM /do/LoginRequired /do/LoginError /do/SuccessfulLogin If so, it should b

Action to invoke a tile definition?

Hello: I am trying to learn to use tiles but cant figure out how to invoke my tiles definition. I have this tiles-defs.xml: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config_1_1.dtd";> I want to invoke the page.home definition, so I declared

Re: Application Security

The forms for container managed security don't have to be plain html - you can configure in the web.xml custom "Logon" and "Logon Error" pages which can be jsps, not just plain html. I have a custom tag on each of these pages which writes the fact that a user has arrived at that page to log4j alon

Re: Application Security

Tim, The first problem of populating a form bean with user data can be handled by populating/creating a UserBean using techniques such as a servlet filter. Alternatively, you can extend the RequestProcessor. Other techniques that work, but are not as global in nature, are using a base action. T

Re: Want to know abt patterns in Struts.

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Application Security

Hi, I've recently discovered that it is not possible to map an action to j_security_check. Given this situation how is it possible to populate a form bean with user data, or create a log of any failed login attempts (bad username / password) if the container takes control of the entire login proc

Ann: Sample Struts-Chains 1.3dev based application

Example Struts 1.3/Chain web-app example using Commons-Chain CoR pattern, using Struts 1.3 dev! Newest good practices implementation of a basic Java/Web-based portal/CMS application. Includes configure use of Eclipse 3.1(M4), Tomcat 5.5, PostgreSQL 8, Struts 1.3dev, JSTL, iBATIS 2, DisplayTag,

Struts/Magnolia Integration

Hello all,   We have been using Struts as the framework for the development of all our Websites and Web Applications.  We are in the midst of searching for a Content Management System for our Website development projects.  Some of our requirements are that the solution is simple for the e

Re: Problem setting up a basic JSP with actions

className="ui.action.TestAction" should be: type="ui.action.TestAction" -Max On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 14:21 -0500, Soaring Eagle wrote: > Hello, > > I have a simple struts-config.xml like below. This keeps throwing > wierd class not found exceptions. Here is the struts-config and the > exception.

Re: VERY IMPORTANT...

Did anybody actually got it ? If so can I have a copy please ? Jan On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:36:44 + "Mark Benussi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thank you Senthil but please read: > >http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html > >Original Message Follows >From:

Re: Trouble with DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm

You need to know what struts is trying to do. I suggest configuring the logging to "debug" - then you should find out where its trying to go to and what the problem is. If validation is being performed but failing then you should see something like... DEBUG Validating input form properties D

Re: Trouble with DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried this and am still getting only a BLANK page with validate="true". Are there any other ideas? DW - Original Message - From: "Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:19 PM Subject: Re: T

RE: Redirecting back to input

At 4:34 PM -0500 2/7/05, Chaikin, Yaakov Y. wrote: Actually, I traced this in code also and I think it already does mapping.findForward(input) inside In either case, how could you specify to Struts to construct a ForwardConfig object with redirect=true?? Either nested within an element, or in

Re: How do I default information based upon user information?

That will work. I was going to have to perform some preprocessing for the form anyway. Thx. --- Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Norris Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have a lazy validator form that I need to default the > value to > > be one of 2 values, based upon inform

RE: Redirecting back to input

Actually, I traced this in code also and I think it already does mapping.findForward(input) inside In either case, how could you specify to Struts to construct a ForwardConfig object with redirect=true?? Thanks, Yaakov. -Original Message- From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wizard form and checkboxes that won't turn off

Thanks James, now all the other stuff that I read about reset makes sense. I had been assuming that since I don't have a reset function for my form that I didn't need it. Now I'm having issues with my nested forms. Does anyone have a recommendation on how to deal with them? This is what I've d

Struts Modules and Internationalization

Has anyone used STRUTS modules to segment the International versions of a web site were each site is managed in a separate file structure? This feels like the right approach. How can we hide the various contexts from the user (i.e. want www.mysite.com/productpage

Re: Trouble with DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm

Looks to me like your missing a "/" off your input parameter ---> input="manage_stake.jsp"> Niall P.S. don't forget to set validate back to "true". - Original Message - From: "Daniel Watrous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 8

Re: Redirecting back to input

At 3:32 PM -0500 2/7/05, Jeff Beal wrote: I looked at the source of the RequestProcessor.processValidate() method, and it certainly doesn't look like there's any way to redirect on validation error without modifying the behavior there. I think that if in your element in Struts config, you use:

Re: Trouble with DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm

I don't get it??? Is there something obvious about the error that I should be able to see now? I still don't have validation happening, even though I can see my page. DW - Original Message - From: "Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Monday, Feb

Re: Trouble with DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm

Most problems people experience are self-inflicted :-) - Original Message - From: "Daniel Watrous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 8:33 PM Subject: Re: Trouble with DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm > by adding 'validate="false"'

Re: Trouble with DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm

by adding 'validate="false"' to my action mapping the page now loads. Is there some undocumented incompatibility when using DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm together? DW - Original Message - From: "Daniel Watrous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Monday,

Re: Suggestions for providing online help in a struts web app

This is just a glimmer, but over the weekend, as part of pushing the Struts 1.3.0-dev code around a bit, I implemented something like this. In a nutshell, here's what I did. I'm hoping that our direction in the core Struts architecture would make it pretty easy for people to put together a pa

Re: Redirecting back to input

I looked at the source of the RequestProcessor.processValidate() method, and it certainly doesn't look like there's any way to redirect on validation error without modifying the behavior there. Also, since the ActionErrors from the validate() method are stored in the request scope (something I

Re: Redirecting back to input

How about an alternative way of doing things. Use the same ActionMapping (i.e. url) for both "preparing/displaying" the page initially and submitting the form. That way its the same URL whatever the user book marks. In your Action have something like the following public class MyAction extend

Re: newbie question

OK Looks like I found my problem... I was deploying the WAR file as a part of an ear file. In this case, my ActionServlet was unable to find the struts.jar classes from the WAR's WEB-INF/lib directory. When I added the struts.jar to the ear file and added a "Class-Path" attribute to my WAR file

Re: Redirecting back to input

With only six users, you shouldn't run into problems. You should never have more than six sessions, therefore never more than six copies of each type of ActionForm in your application. Jason Long wrote: I am currently storing all of my action forms in session scope. My application has many for

Re: Session Scope Action form memeory usage??

How big are your ActionForms and how many forms are there? DW - Original Message - From: "Jason Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 1:17 PM Subject: Session Scope Action form memeory usage?? I am currently storing all of my action forms in session scope. My ap

Session Scope Action form memeory usage??

I am currently storing all of my action forms in session scope. My application has many forms, but only about 6 users total. Will I run into memory problems as long as the number of users remains small? Thank you for your time, Jason Long CEO and Chief Software Engineer Supernova Softwar

Session Scope Action form memeory usage??

I am currently storing all of my action forms in session scope. My application has many forms, but only about 6 users total. Will I run into memory problems as long as the number of users remains small? Thank you for your time, Jason Long CEO and Chief Software Engineer Supernova Softwar

RE: Redirecting back to input

So, let me reiterate: if we are using session scope, is it possible to tell Struts to redirect to the input and not forward. (Let's skip the "it's not a good idea discussion. Whatever it is, I just want to know if it's possible or not.) Thanks, Yaakov. -Original Message- From: news [mail

Trouble with DispatchAction and ValidatorActionForm

Hello All, I keep getting a BLANK PAGE, with NO ERRORS. Any recommendations are appreciated... I am interested in building an Action that allows me to add a database record and edit existing records. Since both actions deal with the same table I want to use the DispatchAction and keep the add

RE: Redirecting back to input

Jason, Can you please start this as under a different subject line? Thanks, Yaakov. -Original Message- From: Jason Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 3:08 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Redirecting back to input I am currently storing all of

RE: Redirecting back to input

Jeff, Partially, this is my fault... I should have stated this to begin with. Yes, I am very aware of the problems with doing this and that this has to be kept in session scope in order for this to work. My only question was if there is a way to specify this in the struts-config.xml, using valida

RE: Redirecting back to input

I am currently storing all of my action forms in session scope. My application has many forms, but only about 6 users total. Will I run into memory problems as long as the number of users remains small? -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Beal Sent:

RE: Redirecting back to input

I am currently storing all of my action forms in session scope. My application has many forms, but only about 6 users total. Will I run into memory problems as long as the number of users remains small? -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Beal Sent:

Re: Suggestings for ISP Hosting that has Hibernate included in a Plan?

Try kgbinternet.com DW - Original Message - From: "Sheehan, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Suggestings for ISP Hosting that has Hibernate included in a Plan? Hi All, I'm looking for an ISP that supports Hibern

Suggestings for ISP Hosting that has Hibernate included in a Plan ?

Hi All, I'm looking for an ISP that supports Hibernate, Tomcat, MySQL, and struts on Linux, and to cap it all off, I'm aiming for the cheap until I find more money to swing the higher-end Hosting Companies. ... Does anyone have recommendations? Thanks, Andrew ---

Re: Redirecting back to input

Chaikin, Yaakov Y. wrote: Is there a way to tell Struts to actually redirect to the "input" instead of forward to it? Basically, what I am trying to achieve here is this. When the user first comes to the form, it's a regular JSP looking URL, i.e., directly accessible to the user through .../blah.js

Re: LazyDynaBean question

The "regular" set() method (i.e. not the indexed/mapped setters) doesn't call the get(name) method - so you could override the other getters/setters implementing your own behaviour as you suggest. Alternatively you could "wrap" the LazyDynaBean and implement your own "getter" behaviour. If you're w

Re: Suggestions for providing online help in a struts web app

Oracle has a pretty complete help system, including full-text search, index, and table of contents, that I've used in the past for context-sensitive help on a desktop application. They also have a servlet that uses the same set of files and a web interface for serving help over the web. I've

RE: Redirecting back to input

Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not, I'd like to know if what I am asking is possible. Besides, making the original form map to a .do doesn't really solve the problem. If the validate() returns a non-empty ActionErrors collection, Struts will still forward to the page and the URL in t

Problem setting up a basic JSP with actions

Hello, I have a simple struts-config.xml like below. This keeps throwing wierd class not found exceptions. Here is the struts-config and the exception. I cannot understand whats wrong here. Note that the struts.jar file is in the WEB-INF/lib/ folder inside the WAR file. Now, this may not be a func

Suggestions for providing online help in a struts web app

I've written a couple of Struts web apps where the only online help was a help icon next to some strategically chosen fields which when hovered over, produced some rollover help text. One problem I found with this approach was that if I wanted to provide help on a bunch of controls, the page got cl

Re: How do I default information based upon user information?

From: "Norris Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a lazy validator form that I need to default the value to > be one of 2 values, based upon information about the user. > > Is this something I can do on the actualy JSP page by using a > logic tag and setting the value if it's unset? You probab

How do I default information based upon user information?

I have a lazy validator form that I need to default the value to be one of 2 values, based upon information about the user. Normally I would just default the value in the form declaration. Is this something I can do on the actualy JSP page by using a logic tag and setting the value if it's u

Re: Redirecting back to input

From: "Chaikin, Yaakov Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When the > user first comes to the form, it's a regular JSP looking URL, i.e., directly > accessible to the user through .../blah.jsp... If the form doesn't validate, > Struts forwards the user to the same exact page with some error messages on > it,

Re: Handling concurrency issues with web apps

From: "Lee Harrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What's the best strategy for avoiding "last save wins" concurrency > issues? If two people open a web maintenance page, change data, and > save, the "last saved" wins, meaning the person who saved first loses > their changes. I don't claim that it's b

RE: LazyDynaBean question

Yep. I was afraid you'd say something like that. I'll see what I can do about moving to 1.2.6. On the subject: Is there a LazyDynaBean implementation that keeps the standard dynabean behavior on the get() methods? I don't want to touch any of the createProperty() methods because I want that behav

RE: LazyDynaBean question

Yep. I was afraid you'd say something like that. I'll see what I can do about moving to 1.2.6. On the subject: Is there a LazyDynaBean implementation that keeps the standard dynabean behavior on the get() methods? I don't want to touch any of the createProperty() methods because I want that behav

Re: sslext

All sorted, thanks! Just a quick question with regards to the upgrade though: * Is there any reason why the upgrade notes suggest to access tag libraries using <%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html prefix="html" %>, instead of <[EMAIL PROTECTED] uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html"%

Re: LazyDynaBean question

If you wanted to have Struts use different flavours of BeanValidatorForm to wrap objects then you would have to create your own custom FormBeanConfig implementation and override the createActionForm() method. Then you need to configure struts to use the custom FormBeanConfig and put in place a mech

LazyDynaBean question

I'm using Struts 1.2.4. If in my struts-config I have something like this: How can I get to the resulting form object to setPathValidation(true)? Is there a way I can tell Struts what particular BeanValidatorFom subclass to be using? Going to 1.2.6 is not an option right now. TIA -Joe -

LazyDynaBean question

I'm using Struts 1.2.4. If in my struts-config I have something like this: How can I get to the resulting form object to setPathValidation(true)? Is there a way I can tell Struts what particular BeanValidatorFom subclass to be using? Going to 1.2.6 is not an option right now. TIA -Joe -

Re: Struts & Velocity

Have you checked out http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/struts/ The community of Struts/Velocity users is quite healthy. I'm not actually one of them, but I bet you'll find that they've got you covered if you check out that URL. Joe At 5:48 PM +0200 2/7/05, Markos Charatzas wrote: Hi all,

Problems using Tiles with Modules

Hi all! I have a very big problem with using Tiles with modules. I have the following project-Structure: /WebContent /WebContent/Images /WebContent/Layout /WebContent/MyModule with some parts with modules and some without. I am using a central layout.jsp out of the /WebContent/Layout-Directory

Re: OT: Handling concurrency issues with web apps

You can use a timestamp rather than a count... more meaningful. In the current application I'm developing, the user is informed of the interim update along with the new data. HTH, Glenn Lee Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/02/2005 11:08 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List"

OT: Handling concurrency issues with web apps

Ok...here's a general development issue that conerns any web based app that is data entry oriented. I've been doing reporting systems so long, I've gotten a bit rusty with transactional development. What's the best strategy for avoiding "last save wins" concurrency issues? If two people open a w

Redirecting back to input

Hi, Suppose you are doing your validation in your ActionForm's validate() method and you provided the "input" attribute of the action mapping to point to the form you start with. Is there a way to tell Struts to actually redirect to the "input" instead of forward to it? Basically, what I am tryin

Re: sslext

There are notes on upgrading from Version 1.1 to Version 1.2.4 here: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsUpgradeNotes11to124 In Struts 1.0 the application resources (properties file) were configured using a web.xml parameter. In Struts 1.1 this was 'deprecated' and a element in the struts-config

RequestProcessor never assigned in ActionServlet.

Hi. Why does the ActionServlet has a RequestProcessor instance member that never gets assigned? The point is that the ActionServlet uses the RequestProcessor created by RequestUtils and never assigns it to it's instance member. I check this out in 1.1 and 1.2.4 source. Any comments?

Struts & Velocity

Hi all, Im just trying to get my head around this. Struts is meant to work with actions. You create the mappings of the actions in the struts-config.xml and define things like action handlers, forwards, etc. Suppose I use Velocity to render the view. Is there a standar place in struts or anywh

Re: I have a jsp. that has two included jsp's that are actually struts actions but the response only

I imagine it'll take some refactoring to get what you want. Assuming that "/EventsAction.do?dispatch=display" and "/RelocationAction.do?dispatch=display" eventually forward to JSPs that generate HTML fragments, you'll probably want your "main" page to end up like: <%@ include file="displayEvent

Re: newbie question

Hmm... I doubt if the xml is not well-formed or invalid. However, I got the point. Looks like I will have to give better fodder (than what I did) to this list. Let me try to get this or other apps working or get better error descriptions. And no, I do not believe that Struts will lie - i.e. if the

Re: tiles bean attribute in putList not working

dear martin, sorry for the tag. this was a quick and dirty copy paste action! thanks for quick answer.after two days now of continously permutating over different version i just found out (five minutes ago) that the problem was here : ${navigationElement.url} . . VS. ${navigationE

Re: sslext

I upgraded to Struts 1.2 and that fixed the problem, thanks. ... I'm now gettting a new problem though - the Struts Validator does not appear to be called anymore, and it also has problems finding the properties file: ApplicationDispatcher[/Web_Module]: Servlet.service() for servlet debugjsp thr

tiles bean attribute in putList not working

hello out there, i want to submit a list as a parameter specified in a tile definition, but not with simpleMenuItem element like when i would do if i used the "add" or "item" elements. i read the tiles.dtd and i found a bean element can be put into the putList element. so i wrote a new beanClass Na

Re: Request for changes [Was: Re: Struts 1.2.6 release??]

Graham Reeds wrote: Niall Pemberton wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@struts.apache.org/msg05862.html From memory, version 1.2.6 was left at beta mainly because there were new attributes added to the "core" tags which hadn't also been included in the "EL" flavour tags. The plan currently is t

Request for changes [Was: Re: Struts 1.2.6 release??]

Niall Pemberton wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@struts.apache.org/msg05862.html From memory, version 1.2.6 was left at beta mainly because there were new attributes added to the "core" tags which hadn't also been included in the "EL" flavour tags. The plan currently is to have a 1.2.7 versio

Re: WAY OT Database Crossroads

Brandon Mercer wrote: 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

RE: [OT] RE: VERY IMPORTANT...

James et al I and my colleagues have been subjected to numerous viruses with real damage sustained over the last month or so. Most of the commercial email servers do a fairly throrough job scanning for viruses. But looking at more proactive and preventive measures to stop the virus at the source

[OT] RE: VERY IMPORTANT...

Please quit forwarding virus warnings (or in this case, hoaxes); we're all big enough and ugly enough to maintain our own AV. ;) http://hoaxinfo.com/lifeisbeautiful.htm This one is over two yrs old; I thought it rang a bell. James. -Original Message- From: senthil Kumar [mailto:[E

RE: Fw: VERY IMPORTANT...

Thank you Senthil but please read: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html Original Message Follows From: "senthil Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Subject: Fw: VERY IMPORTANT... Date: Mon, 7 Fe

Fw: VERY IMPORTANT...

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How to forward to next pages?-help urgent

I have jsp1 with 2 buttons.(OneAction, OneForm) along with it. One.do defined action. I have defined in struts.config to forward to jsp1 with tiles definition. I have jsp2 with 2 buttons.(TwoAction, TwoForm defined with it.)Two.do defined action. I have defined in struts.config to forward to jsp2

RE: No form elements in the jsp- ActionForm

The results will be from database with read only. How to forward from the button to next .do action? I have jsp1 with button. Jsp2 has Action and Form class with a 2.do defined with tiles to the jsp2 file. What should I say in my jsp1? Or struts config? -Original Message- From: Wendy Sm