RE: Test whether an application resource is empty

2005-06-09 Thread Benedict, Paul C
t place!). The project I'm working on is using struts 1.1, so I don't think I have access to the EL tags -- am I mistaken? Chris -----Original Message- From: Benedict, Paul C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:17 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List

RE: Test whether an application resource is empty

2005-06-09 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Chris, Use to bring in the key. You can then use EL to test if it is empty or whatever. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Chris Loschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:37 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Test whether an application resource i

RE: not catching errors...

2005-05-26 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Wendy, You raise an excellent point. I am going to retract my previous advice; it is obviously wrong. A 500 error is a response code. If a response has not been committed to the stream, the application container can translate an exception into a 500 status code. However, if the response stream al

RE: not catching errors...

2005-05-26 Thread Benedict, Paul C
David, I think Tomcat 4.x has a bug in which 500 errors are not captured. I ran into this before. Could be? Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: David Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:34 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: not catching errors...

RE: Redisplaying Information

2005-05-26 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Andrew, What do you mean by redisplay? If you're concerned with a failed login and the form persisting the data, all you have to do is set the value to blank. This will always force the password to be blank on a redisplay: -Original Message- From: Andrew Thorell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: JSTL fmt:message with modules

2005-05-26 Thread Benedict, Paul C
I think Bob asks a good question. 1) Is setting the default bundle in JSTL for the entire web app? I think it is. It seems the bundle must be explicitly set. 2) Perhaps Struts 1.3 could contain a chain plug-in that will set the appropriate resource bundle for JSTL per module? What do you think?

RE: how to get the index of the outer loop

2005-05-25 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Kalyan, Each loop needs to expose their iteration under a different bean name. This is not any different than standard programming loops. Also, I recommend you just JSTL:forEach which is a preferred looping method. ${i},${j} Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Wendy Smoak [

RE: Struts, xhtml & bad tag syntax ... maybe nice in 1.7

2005-05-24 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Aladin, Good point, but I believe your solution has limited use. If you were to use Tiles or other dynamic inclusions, this would not be applied to the internal pages. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Aladin Alaily [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:01 PM To: S

RE: Struts, xhtml & bad tag syntax ... maybe nice in 1.7

2005-05-24 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Is it a common practice to have a static include at the top of every JSP which contians ? -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:48 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Struts, xhtml & bad

RE: Subclassing ActionForward

2005-05-18 Thread Benedict, Paul C
How long did it take to do your nice UML graph in ASCII? :) -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subclassing ActionForward In your BaseDispatchAction override

RE: Struts 1.2.7

2005-05-18 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Aladin, perhaps your hack could have been contributed sooner!! :-) 1.2.7 has been held up along time .. It's about time it's coming out. -Original Message- From: Aladin Alaily [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:54 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Struts 1.

RE: Opening a NEW browser for a 2nd content type from an action

2005-05-12 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Return null. Returning null means you have handled the response and Struts will do no more. -Original Message- From: David Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:47 PM To: Frank W. Zammetti; Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Opening a NEW browser for a 2nd

RE: [POLL] What do you use action forms for?

2005-05-12 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Rick, what do you mean? It sounds like you have an answer. -Original Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 3:38 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [POLL] What do you use action forms for? Benedict, Paul C wrote the following on 5

RE: [POLL] What do you use action forms for?

2005-05-12 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Leon, My biggest problem with session based forms is that, without a special mechanism, it prevents multiple instances of a form from being edited at once within a session. Am I the only one with this concern? ;-) Paul -Original Message- From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Opening a NEW browser for a 2nd content type from an action

2005-05-12 Thread Benedict, Paul C
David, Aladin has a more straight forward approach. If you can know ahead of time when you need to open a new window, take his approach; if you have no prior knowledge, you'll need to send back JavaScript to open a new window. Either way should fit the bill. Thanks, Paul -Original Message---

RE: Opening a NEW browser for a 2nd content type from an action

2005-05-12 Thread Benedict, Paul C
second browser does not open). Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: David Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:48 AM To: Benedict, Paul C; Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Opening a NEW browser for a 2nd content type from an action hmm I dont think I

RE: Opening a NEW browser for a 2nd content type from an action

2005-05-12 Thread Benedict, Paul C
David, You could have your response return HTML with rendered JavaScript; the script would then automatically pop open a new window with the destination link that generates your unstructured content. You could even provide a link in the response if the JavaScript doesn't run automatically. Thanks

RE: [POLL] What do you use action forms for?

2005-05-12 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Ted, This is my point too. I think the majority of people answered #4 because data within tags is I/O, but it's not the type of output (i.e., arbitrary display output) I think Michael was trying to convey. -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May

RE: [POLL] What do you use action forms for?

2005-05-12 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Michael, is #4 clear?? I think people are misunderstanding it. Developers can use a form for input and output (#4/1), but not put display (pure output) data in there (#4/2). The difference is between an edit and view page. -Original Message- From: Marco Mistroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Input Page Enhancement?

2005-05-11 Thread Benedict, Paul C
state does not make much sense. We can simply have a designated for input errors, with predefened mapping name, like ERROR_INPUT: ... This will also allow to have several error handlers, with names starting on "ERROR_" or something. Just a thought. Michael. O

Input Page Enhancement?

2005-05-11 Thread Benedict, Paul C
>From all this discussion, something occurred to me: I think someone should submit an enhancement for Struts 1.2.8/1.3, so that we can define the input page as an action forward/redirect: After talking with Michael, this solution would solve one of the input/output pr

StrutsCatalogInputOutputSeparation continued / PRG

2005-05-11 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Michael, I want to continue this discussion because I think it has merit. I've used the PRG pattern for over a year since I first came across your article on TheServerSide.com. It works well in most cases, but I don't use it 100% of the time because of certain limitations. It just happened that y

RE: StrutsCatalogInputOutputSeparation

2005-05-11 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Original Message- From: Michael Jouravlev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:51 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: StrutsCatalogInputOutputSeparation On 5/10/05, Benedict, Paul C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read Michael Jouravle

StrutsCatalogInputOutputSeparation

2005-05-10 Thread Benedict, Paul C
I have read Michael Jouravlev's article: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsCatalogInputOutputSeparation I can't find any blog or comment box on the page, so I'll write here. I would like people to freely respond to my comments. I disagree with the two-actions methodology to solve the separation

RE: Multiple tiles layouts for single application

2005-05-10 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Andreas, This is a wild solution. I don't understand page 15 and I've used Tiles before, but not in this way. Could you explain it? -Original Message- From: Andreas Toom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:58 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Multiple tile

RE: Sample Code for Desclarative Security in Struts

2005-05-09 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Craig, I found out the hard way that URL patterns are not regular expressions. Why the limitation? My solution (which I did not implement) was to attach a filter to "/" and then run regular expression patterns on the URI. Paul -Original Message- From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Feature wanted: autocomplete attribute for html:text/form tag s

2005-05-09 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Tomasz, If you need to output additional attributes, you don't use Struts to write that particular tag. You are not forced to use Strut's tags. Consider vanilla HTML -- the good ol' days -- and use EL to get what you want from Struts. -Original Message- From: Tomasz Nazar [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: is there a better way of creating SQL queries from form objec ts ?

2005-05-09 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Sean, Have you thought about constructing a DAO/Adapater object that receives your input, and then does the notorious SQL-string building on the inside? If you cannot get the elegant solution, you should at least make it appear elegant by wrapping it inside of the DAO layer. -Original Message

RE: Validation Problem with depends=URL

2005-05-04 Thread Benedict, Paul C
released first - once Validator is released we can then change Struts to depend on the new validator version and then ship it in a release. Niall - Original Message - From: "Benedict, Paul C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" S

RE: Validation Problem with depends=URL

2005-05-04 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Will this be in 1.2.7? -Original Message- From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:13 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Validation Problem with depends=URL This is a bug in validator: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3

RE: Filter Being Called Repeatedly

2005-04-27 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Scott, I recommend you use getRequestURI to check against the path (context-relative) you want to protect. Also, it's possible you're seeing hits against the images in your page (10 images will call your filter 10 times). Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Scott Purcell [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Validation's disappearing messages

2005-04-20 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Chris, At first, make sure you are not redirecting. Error messages are request based, and redirection equals two requests and thus the messages are not persisted. -Original Message- From: Marsh-Bourdon, Christopher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:52 AM To: 'S

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Benedict, Paul C
per-field reporting on the server-side. -Original Message- From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 1:38 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! At 11:15 AM -0400 4/18/05, Benedict, Paul C wrote: >Frank, will Ajax sup

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Benedict, Paul C
ipt might be justifiable. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Mon, April 18, 2005 1:19 pm, Benedict, Paul C said: > To Frank's point, > > I am sometimes one of those users who turn off JavaScript ;-) But, it's

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Benedict, Paul C
To Frank's point, I am sometimes one of those users who turn off JavaScript ;-) But, it's a moot point, because, as I see it, no one's website should depend on JavaScript for it to be fully functional anymore than it should wholly rely on CSS. These are technologies that enable powerful usability,

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Frank, will Ajax support be tied into reporting form errors? It would be interesting to break down the validator into individual validations, so errors can be reported to the user as he types. -Original Message- From: Emmanouil Batsis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005

RE: [OT]Tool to find amount of data transfered in web application

2005-04-07 Thread Benedict, Paul C
A quick way is to simply clear your browser's cache, make a hit to the website, and then look at how much your cache has accumulated. This will give you a rough estimate. -Original Message- From: Ashish Kulkarni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:46 AM To: user@st

RE: RESEND: RE: Load message resources from DB???

2005-04-07 Thread Benedict, Paul C
James, How much different is Common Resources from Common Configuration? In essence, a property file is really just a list of configuration pairs. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:22 PM To: Struts Users Mail

RE: Session Idle

2005-04-06 Thread Benedict, Paul C
If you are using a Servlet 2.3 container, J2EE provides a HttpSessionListener class http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpSession Listener.html But it is only for listening; not altering the event's state. If you are using Tomcat, perhaps you could write some intern

RE: [OT] Re: Is It Possible to Code Using Struts and JSF at the S ame Time?

2005-04-04 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Rick, Since I really started this thread (and I speak for myself only!), I should clarify this statement: >>"Anyway, how come no one is saying that the future is Struts 1.3 or 1.4? >>Why all the hoopla about the future IS JSF?" On a habitual basis, I'll hear JSF is the future. I am glad people

RE: Is It Possible to Code Using Struts and JSF at the Same Time?

2005-04-01 Thread Benedict, Paul C
10 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Is It Possible to Code Using Struts and JSF at the Same Time? Benedict, Paul C wrote: >Unless I am wrong (I may be!), I think the implicit point is not to use >Struts for future projects. Since JSF provides backing beans, validation, >heav

RE: Is It Possible to Code Using Struts and JSF at the Same Time?

2005-04-01 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Dave, Unless I am wrong (I may be!), I think the implicit point is not to use Struts for future projects. Since JSF provides backing beans, validation, heavy user interface controls (all Struts equivalents), I can see why someone would promote JSF over Struts. But why? If the only reason is

RE: Is It Possible to Code Using Struts and JSF at the Same Time?

2005-04-01 Thread Benedict, Paul C
05 8:23 AM, Benedict, Paul C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So is Craig's advice to abandon Struts tags even in a Struts app? Write out > HTML elements yourself and get the values with expressions? No. My advice is to plan on using JSF components for the UI part. That can be an orth

RE: Is It Possible to Code Using Struts and JSF at the Same Time?

2005-04-01 Thread Benedict, Paul C
So is Craig's advice to abandon Struts tags even in a Struts app? Write out HTML elements yourself and get the values with expressions? -Original Message- From: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:20 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Is It Pos

RE: REPOST: Relative URLs

2005-03-29 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Erik, The problem may be that you are using JSP Tags, which are commonly written to only output links to resources within your context. You may want to simply think of writing plain old and tags and do it yourself. -Original Message- From: Erik Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue

RE: using with Tiles and Struts

2005-03-25 Thread Benedict, Paul C
somehow am using the wrong tld.. if I am, can you direct me to the correct one? -----Original Message- From: Benedict, Paul C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:43 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: using with Tiles and Struts Did you accidenta

RE: using with Tiles and Struts

2005-03-25 Thread Benedict, Paul C
from the fmt:message tag Perhaps I'm doing something wrong somewhere. I even tried just doing the following as a test: and I got the following: ???${titleKey}??? Main Home Page -----Original Message- From: Benedict, Paul C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:27 PM

RE: using with Tiles and Struts

2005-03-25 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Vince, You need to import the Tiles attribute before you reference it: Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Fumo, Vince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:11 PM To: 'user@struts.apache.org' Subject: using with Tiles and Struts I am building a Struts Web

RE: EL Mystery

2005-03-23 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Kurt, JSP 2.0 containers have EL turned off implicitly if you are not using the Servlet 2.4 spec. Check the top of your web.xml file -- if you see it is referencing the 2.3 DTD, you need to change it the 2.4 schema. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: Using constants in JSP pages

2005-03-21 Thread Benedict, Paul C
My biggest reservation with placing constants in a map is that it do compile time checking. I suppose it is very important for sites with thousands of JSP files to do precompiling on them. Compiling would fail if the constant is missing. With placing constants in a map, the problem can only be foun

RE: chain two actions together

2005-03-15 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Vincius, See this article about Action Chaining: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/ActionChaining It seems the prefable way of chaining is to do it internally with Jakarta Commons Chains. The Action is just an entry into the business processes. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Viniciu

RE: Is Struts All right ?

2005-03-11 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Diego, I agree. It is nearly impossible to to find the Struts Mailing list on the Struts website unless you do some heavy digging. I could only find it after giving up and relying on google to find it for me. Anyway, here is the address for the mailing list: http://struts.apache.org/mail.html Th

RE: Upper case converter in the view

2005-03-11 Thread Benedict, Paul C
ld use css -Original Message----- From: Benedict, Paul C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2005 15:22 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Upper case converter in the view Brian, I believe the Jakarta-Taglibs Project will be able to do this: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/s

RE: Upper case converter in the view

2005-03-11 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Brian, I believe the Jakarta-Taglibs Project will be able to do this: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/string-doc/intro.html http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/string-doc/string-1.1.0/index.html Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Brian McGovern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Problem with localization and database sorting

2005-03-10 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Kelly, I think you have conflicting requirements. You can't rely on strings outside the database for I18N support and then rely on them for sorting within the database. I think this leaves you with two options: 1. Create a 2nd table which contains your text messages. Join to this table and pull o

RE: User Delegation with struts

2005-03-10 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Betty, Feel free to use a Filter which wraps the HttpServletRequest (see HttpServletRequestWrapper) and provides the implementation for isUserInRole for your custom role model. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Betty Koon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:5

RE: Concurrency in Action classes

2005-03-09 Thread Benedict, Paul C
NG, Please see this page: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsWhyOnlyOneInstanceOfActionClass Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: N G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:57 PM To: Struts-user Subject: Concurrency in Action classes Hi, Is the Action class's i

JSP Documents and Tiles

2005-03-09 Thread Benedict, Paul C
I am having a problem with JSP Documents and Tiles. I find it very useful to split up JSP into different files, and have Struts Tiles bind them together to form a complete page. This is easy with JSP fragments because not every page needs to be a completed document, but I found this approach bombs

RE: How can I prepopulate a textarea struts form ?

2005-02-28 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Ai, In the action that precedes the display of the page, set the form bean's property to contain the text that you want. Also, take advantage of the value attribute of when you require it. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Ai Pham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 2

RE: Where is page (now) to subscribe/unsubscribe to this list?

2005-02-22 Thread Benedict, Paul C
http://struts.apache.org/mail.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:03 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Where is page (now) to subscribe/unsubscribe to this list? I have looked everywhere, at at least it see

RE: DynaActionForms Question

2005-02-22 Thread Benedict, Paul C
DynaValidatorForm dynaForm = (DynaValidatorForm)form; String name = (String)dynaForm.get("name"); -Original Message- From: Scott Purcell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:38 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: DynaActionForms Question Hello, I have a ques

RE: ActionForm vs. DynaActionForm

2005-02-21 Thread Benedict, Paul C
derlying support, are different, just >> sounds dangerous. >> >> As for compile time type information, well, Strings are Strings >> whether you use one or the other. >> >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=109767197521860&w=2 >> >

RE: ActionForm vs. DynaActionForm

2005-02-21 Thread Benedict, Paul C
. As for compile time type information, well, Strings are Strings whether you use one or the other. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=109767197521860&w=2 On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:03:41 -0500, Benedict, Paul C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the advantages and disadvant

ActionForm vs. DynaActionForm

2005-02-21 Thread Benedict, Paul C
What are the advantages and disadvantages of choosing ActionForm vs. DynaActionForm? I ask this because I always found DynaActionForm to be more valuable ... until a co-worker picked my brain. He did not like the lack of type information at compile time. I agreed. Also, I don't know how well DynaA

RE: Validator, Indexed Properties and error messages.

2005-02-16 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Just my 2 cents here, but isn't this an awfully awkward way of extending validations? Tiles does it nicely by putting an "extend" attribute on the tile definition, which allows sub-definitions to do overriding. I would expect that when Struts 1.3+ allows extending on all configuration elements, it

RE: how to receive emails related to my questions only?

2005-02-16 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Not unless you own the server :o) -Original Message- From: Jonathan M Z [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:37 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List; Soaring Eagle Subject: Re: how to receive emails related to my questions only? there's no server side configuration

RE: Redirect instead of forward in action mapping

2005-02-10 Thread Benedict, Paul C
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RE: Redirect instead of forward in action mapping

2005-02-10 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Neil, You cannot redirect to a Tile. A Redirect is specific to a URI. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Neil Aggarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:13 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Redirect instead of forward in action mapping Bil

RE: Extending Action Mapping

2005-02-08 Thread Benedict, Paul C
If your setter (for setIgnore?) does not have the same type as its getter, it is probably ignored. The JavaBean spec is really strict with its requirement for properties. By the way, "LaserActionMapping" is the coolest action classname I've ever seen. If there was an award for these things, I thin

RE: Tiles and Facades

2005-02-03 Thread Benedict, Paul C
nd you seem to be talking about situations where that is not done. Can you expand on this a bit? I am not working, obviously, on the Tiles development, so I won't be able to answer your question in any event, but find the question itself interesting. Thanks, Jack On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:12:44 -0500

Tiles and Facades

2005-02-03 Thread Benedict, Paul C
I read a rumor that said Tiles will become its own top-level subproject in Jakarta. Is that true? Also, I think Tiles is great, but I find it very annoying to litter every JSP page with tags to decorate my pages. While it makes sense to put the tile definitions in XML when I do Struts development

RE: New session on submit?

2005-01-28 Thread Benedict, Paul C
There is a slim chance, but to Ed's point, if URL rewriting is off and your session is configured to transfer jsessionid only by URL rewriting (setting "cookies" to "false" in but true by default), this situation will exist. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMA

RE: How to Forward out of struts to a URL from an Action

2005-01-27 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Your action should choose a forward with its redirect attribute set to true: Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Michael Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:54 PM To: struts-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: How to Forward out of struts to a URL from an

RE: Struts Security

2005-01-27 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Also see this article: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2004/jw-0726-security.html J2EE security: Container versus custom Choose the appropriate type of security for your application Summary This article covers the factors to consider when choosing between custom security and J2EE standa

RE: upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2.6 -- any guides?

2005-01-25 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Speaking of 1.2.6, does anyone know what is holding up its release at beta quality? Are we going to see a GA on this version or in 1.2.7+? Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 8:46 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List;

RE: a plus for sitemesh [was] Re: Best practice for dynamic Title values using Tiles?

2005-01-25 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:26 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: a plus for sitemesh [was] Re: Best practice for dynamic Title values using Tiles? Benedict, Paul C wrote the following on 1/25/2005 10:12 AM: > I would

RE: Best practice for dynamic Title values using Tiles?

2005-01-25 Thread Benedict, Paul C
Rick, I wouldn't worry too much about having a different definition just to switch title. In essence, it is a different view and so it's deserving of a unique entry. Besides, the amount of typing is trivial because Tiles allows overriding of definitions, so it is simply a matter of listing out one

RE: Referencing the Local DTD rather than the http:// one

2005-01-21 Thread Benedict, Paul C
If you're migrating to Struts 1.2, make sure you update all your DOCTYPEs. I believe I once had a problem where I was mixing a few DOCTYPEs and that didn't work so well. Also, if the web container cannot find the DTDs, it may be because your DOCTYPE is wrong. This happened to me. This is the DOCT

Struts 1.2.7?

2005-01-20 Thread Benedict, Paul C
I saw the votes on Struts 1.2.6 (http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsRelease126) and it was voted Beta quality. I also know that Struts 1.3 is receiving active development, but is this preventing the next GA for 1.2.7+? Thanks, Paul ---

DispatchChainAction (Struts 1.3)

2004-12-24 Thread Benedict, Paul C
I noticed in Struts 1.3 there is a DispatchChainAction, and the parameter attribute specifies the name of the chain to execute. Would somebody consider that a security hole? It seems like anyone could arbitrarily execute any chain command in the entire Struts app if they knew it -- unlike a normal