Re: slightly [OT] Hibernate and domain objects in web apps

Tom Ziemer wrote: Hi Borislav, unfortunately I cannot do this, because I have a rich client and a (struts-based) web frontend. Consequently, my business layer must load and initialize all dom objects that are requested, because I cannot have an open session on my rich client that is using we

Re: slightly [OT] Hibernate and domain objects in web apps

Marco Mistroni wrote: In my case I chooseed to have a common interface for DTO & domain, and I am just using BeanUtils to copy Properties between the two (so I save the hardcoded method copy) I use in most cases a mapped form i.e. a form with a map and use as well BeanUtils to copy the value

Re: slightly [OT] Hibernate and domain objects in web apps

Tom Ziemer wrote: Hi, I have got a little problem with Hibernate - well actually it is only partially related to it: My app uses Spring + Hibernate (lazy loading), but should I return the value beans (dom) from Hibernate to my Struts actions? If I do this, I'd have to deal with LazyInitial

Re: how to pass value in html:text from action

Stanislav wrote: Tnx, it works :-) Alternatively, use an action to populate the form bean. OK. I try to do this: ZahtjevZaKreditForm zahtjevZaKreditForm = (ZahtjevZaKreditForm) form; zahtjevZaKreditForm.setPrezimeK(prezimeK); and leave the jsp unchanged like: Try to

Re: odd return error

Chris Pat wrote: Hi Dave Okay the code is below. What I am doing is creating sampleRequest from the action, then calling isAllowed. The sampleRequest is being successfully made and persisted in the db. The isAlowed is failing. I got both working from fine from the command line. I am a relati

Re: Problem with org.apache.struts.upload.FormFile

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm currently having a problem with the Struts org.apache.struts.upload.FormFile. In particular, I want to upgrade my J2EE-Struts application with the upload file functionality. In one of the existing jsp I put this line of code: set it as borislav --

Re: How to call a dispatch-Action from a link?

starki78 wrote: thank you! I found out the following (part)solution: this works and calls the dispatch action: this doesn't work: paramName="nix"> Can you give me a tip? Thanks! //-- dispatch from a link I get the error after clicking the lin

Re: error in adding parameter in mapping

Deepa Khetan wrote: Hi, I am trying to add a parameter at runtime in ActionMapping of my Action Class. I am using mapping.setParameter() for this. It gives an IllegalStateException saying Configuration file is frozen. Is there a way in which i can add a parameter at runtime?? Regards, Deepa

Re: Problems emailing from struts

C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote: Hello, Thanks for the info. I am still having problems sending email from a struts action. I've created a separate class emailClient to send the message. The class is on the end of the email. I have mailapi.jar under /WEB-INF/lib/ version 1.3.3.01

Re: Problems emailing from struts

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/Message com.nando.struts.action.TestAction.send1Mail(TestAction.java:35) com.nando.struts.action.TestAction.execute(TestAction.java:69) Seems that you don't have mail.jar in WEB-INF/lib. borislav

Re: JSP/design/flow question.

Deep Chand wrote: I'm new to Struts. I've a form asking for customer data with fields like name, address etc. What I want is this kind of flow/design: Page1) Customer enters their info. Submit button will take them to Page2. Page2) They are asked to verify the same info again with read only fi

Re: What's wrong with DTOs?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bob, I'll try to give my 1 cent to the topic and also to answer you more concrete because I believe you want some concrete answers, not theoretical conversations. Background: I just started a Struts project with Hibernate. I have chosen to use the Data Access Ob

Re: trouble with dispatching on a paramter

Troy Bull wrote: Hello I am trying to get my form to dispatch to different functions inside my action handler class. I followed this tip exactly : http://www.husted.com/struts/tips/002.html (except i fixed a couple type o's). The problem is my dispatch parameter is not being recognized.

submit buttons - how to put them label from resource

Hi all, I'd like to set a label of submit buttons getting it from property file. But seems that this is not possible. One other problem I see is that value attribute has two purposes: to set the label, and on submit to provide value for the request parameter. Is there any way they to be differ

Re: Debugging

Laurie Harper wrote: Bryon Lape wrote: hm strange ... in this case I don't know what ot tell you ... the file name should be struts.log may be somebody who is more familiar with log4j should give you an idea ... borislav Let me do a search on the whole harddrive for that file name. make

Re: Debugging

Bryon Lape wrote: just make a file search under the path where the server is installed Please excuse my ignorance, but look for what? That is, what file name should I expect to find? I did a search for *.log and *log* and didn't find anything of use. hm strange ... in this case I

Re: [OT] Re: Debugging

Dave Newton wrote: Holy crap, edit your replies! Dave Sorry Dave, ussualy i do Borislav - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debugging

Bryon Lape wrote: Bryon Lape wrote: Bryon Lape wrote: I am looking for good pointers on getting debug logging turned on in Struts. I've added debug and detail params to my web.xml file, but I get nothing. Do I need log4j? In the Struts Cookbook I've found some things on de

Re: Debugging

Bryon Lape wrote: Bryon Lape wrote: I am looking for good pointers on getting debug logging turned on in Struts. I've added debug and detail params to my web.xml file, but I get nothing. Do I need log4j? In the Struts Cookbook I've found some things on debugging, but it seems very comp

Re: Debugging

Bryon Lape wrote: My goodness, it is as long as I thought. I can at least cut and paste this instead of doing all that typing. that's why I pasted you lines from my log4j.proprties file and it's sure they are correct borislav ---

Re: Debugging

Bryon Lape wrote: My goodness, it is as long as I thought. I can at least cut and paste this instead of doing all that typing. is it so much? Thanks. I'll let you know how it goes. I am running under iPlanet Web Server 6.0 SP1, so things can goofy. It already will not find the message

Re: Debugging

Bryon Lape wrote: I am looking for good pointers on getting debug logging turned on in Struts. I've added debug and detail params to my web.xml file, but I get nothing. Do I need log4j? In the Struts Cookbook I've found some things on debugging, but it seems very complex to configure. Is thi

Re: Opinion about Struts layout

starki78 wrote: thanks Borislav for your answer! I can provide you some screenshots from 2 applications that I work on - they are not finished, but may be can give you some ideas about the power of struts-layout. And I have a friend who did some "miracles" with struts-layout, but he re

Re: Opinion about Struts layout

starki78 wrote: Do you think this framework is stable and good? I have tested it and my first impression is not bad. Is there someone who uses it for its purposes? Ciao Christian Hi Christian, I use struts-layout from 4-5 months, and it saves a lot of develompent time. One of the best fe

MessageResources available on plugin initialization time?

Hi all Does somebody know if it's possible to get MessageResources diring initialization of plugin? I do some "global" initializations including reading some string from resource file, so I need this resource "as early as possible" Or maybe "global initializations" should not be in plugin (i

Re: Manually Instantiating Action classes

a k wrote: In the process of writing an Action class, I realized that it needs some application functionality (not general utility kinda functionality) that is already part of a method in a different Action class. So, Action MyAction1 needs to access method myMethod2 in Action MyAction2. Here a

Re: Which version of Eclipse does current release of Struts support?

Fei Jiangnan wrote: Hi there, I am newbie to struts, and tried current release of struts with Eclipse 3.1, they seems not working together, coule you please make me some sense from the versions between struts and eclipse? thanks in advance. Fei --

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

Martin Gainty wrote: Boris- I see Security as implemented by RingBearer Frodo in Lord of the Rings The caretaker of the ring travels thru all domains and access to the other dimension (portal which contains final results) regardless of any domain he travels thru Begreife? Martin- Since I'm

Re: Validation framework

Rafael Taboada wrote: Hi folks I'm using validation framework in order to validate my fields in a form. I have three fields in a search form: strUsername strFromDate strToDate But we have the rule that the user can fill strUsername or use dates range. I mean he can search by username or he can

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

Leon Rosenberg wrote: ---Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Borislav Sabev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 18:54 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor How do you classify Security and Authorization issues in this metaphor? In my

[OT] olipmic rings metaphor

Ted Husted wrote: In my own work, I tend to think of an enterprise-grade application as a set of overlapping rings, like the Olympics logo. * http://www.olympic.org/ In the Blue ring live the view members, like custom tags or UI components, and the HTTP request and response objects. This is th

Re: Alternate color in html:iterate

Take a look at Strus-Layout, there are a lot of suefull tags inluding iteration tags with alternate colors, soring, paging etc http://struts.application-servers.com/ Regards Borislav - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File upload using maxFileSize

Marc Walter wrote: Hi! In want to use the controller element "maxFileSize" in the struts-config.xml in order to provide a global maximum file upload size in my application. So I entered the value "2M" (two megabytes) for test purpose. In my upload JSP I defined a submit button like this: When

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Rick Reumann wrote: Borislav Sabev wrote the following on 7/12/2005 3:20 AM: In fact I'm a bit confused what exactly is the recommended design pattern in this case ... My conclusion is really to use Strings, Yes, you should use Strings in your ActionForms. Then you have your bus

Re: anyone else pass their ActionForm off to another layer

Durham David R Jr Ctr 805 CSPTS/SCE wrote: So what happens is the Action looks like... //EmployeeAction execute(...) or dispatchmethod() { EmployeForm empForm = (EmployeeForm)form; //validate form, if success proceed.. boolean success = EmployeeActionHelper.updateEmployee( empFo

Re: anyone else pass their ActionForm off to another layer

Rick Reumann wrote: I was just replying to a post about keeping your Actions clean and doing the business logic in other classes. One thing I didn't bring up, though, because I'm not sure how 'best practice' it is, is the concept of passing your ActionForm and sometimes the HttpServletReques

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Ted Husted wrote: In my experience, there's at least two best practices for every problem. Sometimes you waterfall, and sometimes you agile. Sometimes you hibernate, sometimes you ibatis. Sometimes, you property, and sometimes you map. One-size-fits-all is the pointy-hair grail :) Excellen

Re: Validation problem

Rafael Taboada wrote: Hi folks, I'm doing my validation for my form fields... I use validation framework, so I don't use validate method in my form bean. The problem I have is the validate is called when I use for first time the module. I mean, when I see for frst ime the HTML form, validation

Re: Validation problem

Rick Reumann wrote: if ( errors != null && !errors.isEmpty ) <-- this part can probably be shortened, I was too lazy to figure out what really gets returned if validation passes.. a null or empty ActionErrors? here is part of the code of RequestProcessor, so in both cases the form is con

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Craig McClanahan wrote: Blame backwards compatibility. By the time this issue was raised, there were huge numbers of applications already dependent on the previous behavior, which would have been broken by a change. However, this shouldn't have *any* impact on "incorrect values in forms". If

Re: Excel download

Senthilrajan VS wrote: Hi all, Is there any way in struts to download the page (view part) in Excel format. Thanks & Regards, SenthilRajan VS Take a look at POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ Regards Borislav - To uns

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Frank W. Zammetti wrote: It's ironic to me that I had this same discussion with someone at work just last week :) I *was* in the "Maps are better" camp until a few months back when I changed my mind, and it comes down to one thing: Self-documenting code is better. A bean is self-documentin

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion? BeanUtil C onverter

Nitish Kumar wrote: "This is a HUGE problem with BeanUtils and why I end up having to register custom converters:(" good point, but where do I register my custom converters? I dont want to do it in my action classes, and writing a plugin just to register my converters would be a big overhead.

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Rick Reumann wrote: You shouldn't want a "default" at all provided by BeanUtils for cases where it can be null! You are using the anomoly of the way Integer is working and wanting to propogate that poor solution. null should be null.. it shouldn't be 0 or some default Date if null is provide

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Nitish Kumar wrote: I think raghavendra is right. Rivka, your code is working because you are using primitive type int and not the wrapper type Integer. In case of primitive type in case of any exception, it gives you a default value. Thanks and Regards, Nitish Kumar So after small deb

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Nitish Kumar wrote: I think raghavendra is right. Rivka, your code is working because you are using primitive type int and not the wrapper type Integer. In case of primitive type in case of any exception, it gives you a default value. Thanks and Regards, Nitish Kumar I don't think becaus

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

pected to get - " the value in question_no field must be positive" Hm, interesting, I didn't try to leave the struts-config empty. The key is in the source code of struts ... I'll debug it a bit ... because such behaviour for me is a bit strange ... -- Mit freu

Re: Tiles

Dewitte Rémi wrote: I answer myself. I achieved doing this : classname="java.util.List" /> <% java.util.Iterator i=listQuestions.iterator(); while( i.hasNext() ) { String question= (String)i.next(); %> <% } %> Is there any way to do this with tags ? I would like my present

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Rivka Shisman wrote: Hi again When you say that validation doesn't work when inserting "ABC" in an integer field - do you mean when using struts Validator? I'm not using the Validator - I just add "if myInteger < 1 " in method validate(). If I define myInteger as String - how do I check that i

Re: Using struts forms as Value Objects: your opinion?

Rivka Shisman wrote: Hi Erik You said - " My form class fields are always Strings (because of HTTP)" - I'm not sure I anderstand the meaning of this - why do the fields are Strings? I have recently started working with struts and my forms contain int, short, boolean and so on, and it works fi

Re: access entries in MessageResources.properties from java code

Rivka Shisman wrote: Hi all, I have a MessageResources.properties file that contains all the messages regarding form validation. I wonder what should I do when I have a business/workflow messages (like "This entry already exist in the DB"), should I use the same properties file? If yes - how do

Re: read init parameters in action

r, Date.class); ImagesManager.setImagesStoragePath(arg0); } catch (Exception e) { log.error(e.getMessage()); e.printStackTrace(); } } } Cheers Borislav Tony Smith wrote: Thanks. Could you show me how to write such plug-in? --- Borislav Sabev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Validator, sutrts-config and form-property's types

Craig McClanahan wrote: Is this with JSP by specification or it's a implementation issue? I hope it's by spec ... Sorry, my mistake, I wanted to write JSF. It's not really a JSP issue, but a component issue. In JavaServer Faces (or Tapestry), the components themselves maintain the

Re: logic iterate

Why don't you try Struts-Layout(http://struts.application-servers.com/)? it's very nice library ..I use it and I have a special tag for this for every bean in the collection. Borislav Laurie Harper wrote: Why can't you just change your JSP? In other words, why does the markup you would like

Re: Validator, sutrts-config and form-property's types

Jeff Beal wrote: I think that if Mark Galbreath were still around, he'd reply with "Validator sucks" or something similar. Basically, your statements below are all quite correct. I will add (in response to Point 1 below) that the BeanUtils library is what Struts uses internally to copy values

Re: read init parameters in action

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Validator, sutrts-config and form-property's types

Hi all, The problem I'd like to discuss is how Validator works with form properties. IMHO there is a contradiction (or maybe I don't know how to resolve this problem - in this case, please help me) with types of Form properties. The end result is that if I want to use the Validator, all my fo