Re: AW: Determining an Action's class

2008-06-11 Thread David Evans
If I understand your question correctly, what you are looking for is in the ActionProxy: http://struts.apache.org/2.0.11.1/struts2-core/apidocs/com/opensymphony/xwork2/ActionProxy.html It has getAction and getMethod methods. I'm not sure how to easily get ahold of the ActionProxy within a jsp. th

Re: latest jasper reports plugin jar download

2008-05-24 Thread David Evans
help. Dave On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 06:14 -0700, Dave Newton wrote: > --- David Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, thanks. Two questions: > > 1. to build it, do i download the source from svn, compile, then jar? > > http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/building-the

Re: latest jasper reports plugin jar download

2008-05-23 Thread David Evans
Ok, thanks. Two questions: 1. to build it, do i download the source from svn, compile, then jar? 2. what does 2.1.muble+ mean? Dave On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:47 -0700, Dave Newton wrote: > --- David Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to download the latest versio

latest jasper reports plugin jar download

2008-05-23 Thread David Evans
Hello, I need to download the latest version of the jasper reports plugin jar (in order to take advantage of the exportParameters functionality added to JasperReportsResult.java by Dave Newton on April 25th). How can I download a jar that includes that version? Or do i have to build that myself?

Re: struts and jasperreports

2008-05-04 Thread David Evans
Laurie and Dave, thanks for the ideas. I am embarrassed to say that the problem was the file permissions on my jar file. Thanks again, Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

struts and jasperreports

2008-05-02 Thread David Evans
Hello all, I am trying to configure Struts 2 and Jasper Reports. I am getting a: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:net/sf/jasperreports/engine/JasperCompileManager As you can see in my setup below, I have the jasperreports-2.0.5.jar in WEB-INF/lib and a jar tvf verifies that that JasperCompileManag

Re: [Strust2] how does Interceptor work?

2006-09-26 Thread David Evans
Hello, These webwork and xwork doc pages may help: http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/XW/Interceptors http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/api/com/opensymphony/xwork/ActionInvocation.html http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/api/com/opensymphony/xwork/ActionProxy.html Passed in to your intercepto

Re: [s2] Re: What's the future of Action, events / dispatching and CoC/CoR

2006-07-24 Thread David Evans
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 21:45 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Ted Husted on 24/07/06 15:22, wrote: > > On 7/23/06, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can anyone involved in struts 2 tell me about potential brick walls that > >> this sort of Action base class and its children would be heading into

Re: About ActionServlet

2006-07-20 Thread David Evans
The API docs can help: http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-core/apidocs/index.html more specifically: http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-core/apidocs/org/apache/struts/action/ActionServlet.html This link has a brief explanation http://struts.apache.org/1.2.x/userGuide/building_controller.html#ac

Re: struts 1.3.x

2006-07-17 Thread David Evans
Another avenue for exploration at this point is webwork: http://opensymphony.com/webwork/ this is the basis for for struts 2.0, and its a great framework. the basic concept remains the same (a url maps to a class method, which returns a pointer to a resource, usually a view), but there is a lot mo

Re: Deciding which DispatchAction to use

2006-05-31 Thread David Evans
This page may be helpful: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/EventActionDispatcher On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:42 -0700, pantichd wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to figure out how to decide which "flavor" of DispatchAction > (DispatchAction, LookupDispatchAction, MappingDispatchAction, etc) to use in > wh

Re: iterating over multiple Collections in one loop with JSTL

2006-05-25 Thread David Evans
${list1Item} ${list2[status.index]} the status variable is an instance of LoopTagStatus, which has an index property that is set by the forEach loop. I might favor combining the two lists (in your action) into a single list, each element of which has a list that holds the two items from t

RE: Get request object

2006-05-12 Thread David Evans
ossible to get the request object in any way. > > I have solved my problem now. But I am still wondering if it is a good > idea to have access to the request object from anywhere. If yes, then is > there a way to do it. Any thoughts? > > Harsh. > > -Original Messag

Re: how to deal with request attributes and validation?

2006-05-12 Thread David Evans
This page provides a good overview of the problem: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/DataEntryForm On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:35 +0200, dario wrote: > hello everybody, > > I'd like to know how do you deal with situations where you need to > display some dynamic elements (menus, dropdowns...) on the

Re: Get request object

2006-05-12 Thread David Evans
Hello, I don't think you can get the request from the ActionForm. From within the ActionForm you can get the ServletContext this way: ServletContext context = this.getServlet().getServletContext(); But i don't think that helps. What is the scenario here? why do you need the request in the Acti

Re: [OT] - JSTL Parameter Conventions

2006-05-11 Thread David Evans
Check out Velocity and Freemarker, both are templating systems that are not tied to jsp. http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/ I use velocity to do all of the email body templating in my applications, it works great. Dave On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 12:43 -0700, Kalce

RE: Basic

2006-05-10 Thread David Evans
This may help: http://struts.apache.org/struts-action/struts-taglib/index.html You may also want to consider using the jstl tags. i think the struts logic tags may be depreciated in favor of jstl. the jstl tags to solve your problem are and and the documentation is here: http://java.sun.com/prod

Re: reXXXXXX File upload using tag fails..java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:

2006-05-10 Thread David Evans
Just a guess, as i don't use the struts html tags, but shouldn't that method=get be method="post"? you can't "get" a multi part form. dave On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:59 -0700, kommineni Anita wrote: > Kyle, > Thanks for the reply. But I ahve it declared. > I have that defined in my html as follows

Re: URL needs www appended

2006-05-09 Thread David Evans
if you are running on apache, you can use mod_rewrite to fix this, by including a rewrite rule, something like: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domainname\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainname.com$1 [R=301,L] dave On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:26 -0500, Scott Purcell

Re: Where Are Files Uploaded When Using Form File?

2006-05-02 Thread David Evans
the answer to your first question is here: http://struts.apache.org/struts-action/apidocs/org/apache/struts/upload/CommonsMultipartRequestHandler.html#getRepositoryPath(org.apache.struts.config.ModuleConfig) I think the answer to your second question depends on the servlet container being used, an

Re: Is Action Chaining Strongly Discouraged?

2006-05-02 Thread David Evans
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 20:33 -0500, Joe Germuska wrote: > At 5:10 PM -0700 4/30/06, David Evans wrote: > >below... > > > >On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 17:47 -0500, Joe Germuska wrote: > >> On 4/30/06, Caroline Jen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >I ha

Re: Is Action Chaining Strongly Discouraged?

2006-05-02 Thread David Evans
Thanks for the idea. Are you differenciating using request.getMethod() in the actions execute method? dave On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:03 -0400, Dave Newton wrote: > David Evans wrote: > > Is there a reason you don't use the two action (setup and submit) approach? > > &g

Re: How to POST data to an external site from an action?

2006-05-02 Thread David Evans
Here's a quick connect using standard java (not tested): java.net.HttpURLConnection connection; java.net.URL url; try { // Create new URL and connect url = new URL("http://www.test.com/test.cgi";); connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); // Setup HTT

Re: Is Action Chaining Strongly Discouraged?

2006-04-30 Thread David Evans
below... On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 17:47 -0500, Joe Germuska wrote: > On 4/30/06, Caroline Jen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have seen some discussions on this forum regarding > >action chaining. Primarily, the advices are to think > >through the business logic before making decision on > >chaining

Re: RV: Combo Selection Missed

2006-04-25 Thread David Evans
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:52 -0300, Marisol Opreni wrote: > De: Marisol Opreni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: Martes, 25 de Abril de 2006 03:52 p.m. > Para: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Asunto: Combo Selection Missed > > > > Hi! > > > > I have textboxes and a drop down list. > >

view from html with dynamic parts

2006-04-25 Thread David Evans
Hello all, I have a project i'm working on, that has the following view requirement: 1) have a known filesystem directory into which static html files can be placed. these html files have a marker somewhere in the body tag that says . The marker could be anything, that is just an example. 2) my

Re: Session lovers... how do you handle this 'common?' situation?

2006-04-21 Thread David Evans
Hey its friday and its late :) And while i'm talking to you, thanks for the struttin with struts lessons, they really helped me when i first started using this stuff. dave On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 21:21 -0400, Rick Reumann wrote: > On 4/21/06, David Evans <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Session lovers... how do you handle this 'common?' situation?

2006-04-21 Thread David Evans
Hello, Even if Struts is passing a true reference to the form bean that is stored in the session, doing that reassignment inside the dispatch method won't do what you want. * public ActionForward setUpForNew(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, ...{ form = new MyForm(); **

Re: SAF2 interceptors/interfaces vs. explicit method calls (was: How to execute code in an Action when ActionForm validation fails?)

2006-04-19 Thread David Evans
t all seems much cleaner so far. Dave > [1] > http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/wikidocs/Basic%20configuration%20and%20your%20first%20action%20-%20Hello%20WebWorld.html > > On 4/19/06, David Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm just getting started with Webwor

Re: How to execute code in an Action when ActionForm validation fails?

2006-04-19 Thread David Evans
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:23 -0500, Eric Rank wrote: > Thanks Rick, > Thanks for your feedback! I'm curious about this chaining and > interceptor business too. What's it all about? > > Eric Rank I'm just getting started with Webwork and so am no expert, but here's a brief description of the inte

RE: Efficient session object and cookie checks in struts

2006-04-15 Thread David Evans
Instead of scattering the session/cookie checks throughout your actions, you could make a BaseSecurityCheckAction that does the check and then have the actions which need the checks extend the base action. In Webwork and therefore Struts 2, you'll be able to implement this as an interceptor, and us

Re: The framework I think I want...

2006-01-06 Thread David Evans
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 20:49 +, Niall Pemberton wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 8:21 PM > > > Not at all a significant enhancement, but > > think of all the things you could then do. How about a simple fla

Re: Which method sets bean into desired scope

2006-01-03 Thread David Evans
In struts 1.1 (the only one i have the source for) its in the processActionForm method. dave On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 08:38 -0600, Jim Reynolds wrote: > Hello and Happy New Year > > I am trying to figure out which method (of the many) in the request > processor physically takes the form bean and s

Re: How to pass readonly data through validate?

2005-12-30 Thread David Evans
You will probably find this useful, it covers a variety of options to solve the problem. http://www.reumann.net/struts/articles/request_lists.jsp On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:45 -0500, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm creating a web form that displays both editable and readonly data > at the same time. I

Re: Problem with using Logic:equla tag.

2005-12-15 Thread David Evans
ta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html dave On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 01:15 +0330, Legolas Woodland wrote: > David Evans wrote: > > As someone else mentioned, the problem could be the scope of your > > variable. Another thing to check, are you sure that EL is being > >

Re: Problem with using Logic:equla tag.

2005-12-15 Thread David Evans
As someone else mentioned, the problem could be the scope of your variable. Another thing to check, are you sure that EL is being evaluated in your page? dave On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 00:30 +0330, Legolas Woodland wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > > > Don't use this. Use the jstl tags ins

Re: jsp:includes or c:imports of action AND new tag for in struts config

2005-12-13 Thread David Evans
ike solution to the above problem. dave On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:12 -0800, David Evans wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a requirement for a dynamically created menu on all pages of a > web site i am creating. So i created an action that creates a List of > MenuItems, and then for

jsp:includes or c:imports of action

2005-12-12 Thread David Evans
Hello all, I have a requirement for a dynamically created menu on all pages of a web site i am creating. So i created an action that creates a List of MenuItems, and then forwards to a jsp that uses jstl to forEach through the list and generate the appropriate html. the jsp page only has the snipp

Re: help using validate inside ActionForm

2005-12-04 Thread David Evans
A few ideas that may get you started: you can use different names for the submit or image tags that you are using to submit the forms, and set up an if, else if structure in your validate method to see which page has submitted to the actionForm based on the parameters input. or use hidden tags to

Re: please reaply as early as possible - session tracking

2005-11-29 Thread David Evans
And you get the HttpSession object from the request in your action like this: HttpSession session = req.getSession(); // where req is the HttpServletRequest passed into the "execute" method On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 10:21 -0500, Srinivas Jadcharla wrote: > You can use HttpSession Object..In that yo

Re: shopping cart, dynamic field names

2005-11-23 Thread David Evans
to persist the given cartEntries[].productCount, > becouse my shoppingcart is in the database (which is more safe and easer > to analye with some stastic apps later). > > Chhers, > > Danny > > P.S. And yes, I use Struts Dialogs :) > > > David Evans schrieb: >

shopping cart, dynamic field names

2005-11-22 Thread David Evans
Sorry, I've search for hours but can't seem to find the answer to this basic problem. I'm building a shopping cart for the first time in struts. I have a display cart jsp that will show each item, and as expected, i have a qty textbox for each item and an update cart button. so each qty field will

Re: really dynamic Struts Forms

2005-10-28 Thread David Evans
I think this might help: http://www.niallp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lazyactionform.html On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 08:15, Brian Demers wrote: > Hello all, > > I am creating a dynamic struts application. I don't think > DynaActionForm is what I am looking for. > > My page contains many input fields which

Re: [ot] utility to verify if an Object implements all methods from Interface?

2005-10-27 Thread David Evans
I think you could use the java.lang.reflect package classes: Object obj = new Object(); Method[] methods = obj.getClass.getMethods(); Create another test object that does implement all of the interfaces, and then compare the methods array to the array created by the test object's .getClass.getMet

servlet mapping , possible OT

2005-05-11 Thread David Evans
Hello All, I have a struts app which is having problems with its servlet mapping. this problem appeared seemingly on its own, unrelated to any change to the configuration. surely thats unlikely, but i'm the only admin on the box and i don't remember changing anything. the app is running on tomcat,

Re: Filter Being Called Repeatedly

2005-04-27 Thread David Evans
Hello, comments below On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 10:19, Scott Purcell wrote: > Hello, > I decided to try and implement a filter for my struts application. A filter > that would check for a session object, and if it does not exist, send the > user to a certain link. > > Anyway, I found an example in

Re: JSTL simply love it however ...

2005-04-14 Thread David Evans
I think that with RT the attribute is all expression or no expression. so try : "> I'm not sure if i parsed your intention correctly, but the idea is that the attribute should be all expression. a simpler example: wrong -> right -> "> dave On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[repost, sort of]Populate method of ActionForm

2005-04-12 Thread David Evans
Hello, I posted this question yesterday, and got no replies, figured i'd try rephrasing/simplifying the question. I have an application which i want to migrate to struts. It needs to be able to use a different populate method depending on the information in the submitted request. I am interested

Populate method of ActionForm

2005-04-11 Thread David Evans
Hello All, When i first heard about struts, i was developing all in jsps. I read about struts and at the same time MVC, and thought, "Well obviously thats the way to go". So before i allowed my self to use struts i first created my own "strutsLite" based on my very small understanding of struts. I

Re: Need Database Connectivity Advice

2005-04-11 Thread David Evans
Here's how i use the tomcat database pool. (these are just the relevent snippets, if you need the entire source, email me off list and i'll email you the entire DAO) In my DAO: import javax.sql.DataSource; import javax.naming.Context; import javax.naming.InitialContext; import java.sql.Connection;

creating a query string from action form values

2004-11-01 Thread David Evans
Hello, I am creating an application which has a search form. the search form has several fields which represent attributes of a person object that is stored in a database. i gather the user inputted values into the actionform and they are passed to my struts Action class. I will use these values t

Re: An Eclipse Like WebApp Framework? -- a proposal

2004-10-06 Thread David Evans
Are either Tapestry or Zope the kind of things you're talking about here? They are both component based web app frameworks. If those are not what you're talking about, whats the difference? dave On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:26, Michael McGrady wrote: > I have a proposal at the bottom of this email. >

Re: What happended to Ted Husteds Struts pages?

2004-08-24 Thread David Evans
I found another location for the tips: http://www.jguru.com/faq/topicindex.jsp?topic=Struts then search for Tools:Framework:Struts:Tips On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 08:48, Susan Bradeen wrote: > David Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/23/2004 05:01:39 PM: > > > Anyone know wh

What happended to Ted Husteds Struts pages?

2004-08-23 Thread David Evans
Anyone know what happened to the website that used to live here: http://husted.com/struts/index.html there was a design patterns catalog and a tips page and alot of great links. has it been mirrored? dave - To unsubscribe, e-

Re: Best pratice for login funtionality

2004-08-23 Thread David Evans
Heres a good thread from the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg24504.html On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 12:29, struts wrote: > Hi. Since most of Struts based applications has some sort of login facility > I thought there must be some kind of "best practice" when using the Strut

Re: OT: Re: Velocity vs tags (was JSF vs Struts)

2004-07-22 Thread David Evans
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:59, Rick Reumann wrote: > David Evans wrote: > > > Velocitys other big sellling point to me is > > that i can use it during an action's execution, for instance, to create > > files on disc. theres no way to do that with jsp is there? &

Re: OT: Re: Velocity vs tags (was JSF vs Struts)

2004-07-22 Thread David Evans
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:43, Craig McClanahan wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:33:35 -0400, David Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the input. i can see what you mean about the conditionals and > > looping looking cleaner. but the ease of use of sticking any kind

OT: Re: Velocity vs tags (was JSF vs Struts)

2004-07-22 Thread David Evans
cleaner. tastes vary. dave On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 22:37, Rick Reumann wrote: > David Evans wrote: > > > Could you elaborate on what you find distastful about Velocity? > > I wasn't being "all" seriously when I said "yuk":) but seriously I do > find tha

Velocity vs tags (was JSF vs Struts)

2004-07-21 Thread David Evans
Rick, Could you elaborate on what you find distastful about Velocity? I've just started using it as my primary presentation layer tool in struts, because i found the templating language so clean and clear. The ablitiy to stick what ever object i'd like in its context, and then refer to it in a si