RE: Problem with using HttpUploadBean with Struts

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew Hill
] Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:04 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Problem with using HttpUploadBean with Struts Importance: High Hi there, Do you have any possible work-around, please let me know. Regards. Irshad -Original Message----- From: Andrew Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Controller for web services

2004-05-20 Thread Andrew Hill
Have a look at Axis (also an Apache project). It will probably do what you need. -Original Message- From: Pedro Salgado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 21 May 2004 13:20 To: Struts Users List Subject: Controller for web services Is there any MVC implementation for web services

RE: scope and presenting realtime data (fwd)

2004-05-26 Thread Andrew Hill
Why not store the info in the servlet context, using different keys for each server? That way if several users are all monitoring the same server they will be looking at the same set of data. Since the data is being multithreaded you will need to make sure you synchronize in the appropriate place

RE: scope and presenting realtime data (fwd)

2004-05-26 Thread Andrew Hill
anyway to *invalidate* this storage bean if nobody has accessed it in some past N minutes? I am new to struts so this question might be be too simple.. thanks & regards -Ramudu On Wed, 26 May 2004, Andrew Hill wrote: > Why not store the info in the servlet context, using different keys

RE: Newbie question: Are there any issues in having popup browser windows

2004-05-27 Thread Andrew Hill
Beware of session-scoped ActionForms in this scenario. For a given ActionMapping you may only have one session scoped form per session for that mapping (because the attribute key is a constant defined either in the mapping or by the form name). If you have several windows open up on that mapping an

RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2004-05-28 Thread Andrew Hill
+-1 -Original Message- From: Daniel Perry +AFs-mailto:d.perry+AEA-netcase.co.uk+AF0- Sent: Friday, 28 May 2004 17:20 To: Struts User List Subject: FW: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Everytime i post to the struts list, i get an email back for one person: Could an admin unscuscri

RE: Hidden Variables

2004-06-03 Thread Andrew Hill
Is is a session or request scoped form? -Original Message- From: Joshi, Naveen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:48 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Hidden Variables It was based on log files that we found this error. This has happened for couple of scree

RE: Hidden Variables

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew Hill
: RE: Hidden Variables Request Scope Form. -Original Message- From: Andrew Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:48 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Hidden Variables Is is a session or request scoped form? -Original Message- From: Joshi, Naveen

RE: Dyanamic form

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Hill
Take a look at the lazyList method in ListUtils (in commons-collections). It should provide that for which you seek. [http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/api/org/apache/commons/collec tions/ListUtils.html] -Original Message- From: nikhil walvekar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[OT] Expresso

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Hill
Any Expresso users out there? Id be interested in hearing your comments and evaluation of this framework. It uses Struts as the basis for the presentation layer, Id be especially interested to know if it maintains Struts flexibility of allowing you to use any (ie: not JSP) view rendering technolog

RE: [OT] Expresso

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew Hill
JDBC, and JNDI. For the View, Expresso works well with JavaServer Pages, JavaServer Faces, Velocity Templates, XSLT, and other presentation systems. So what I want to hear about now is folks experiences using it and their resulting opinions. -Original Message----- From: Andrew Hill [mai

RE: Action Forward

2004-06-09 Thread Andrew Hill
Harjots way should work (and you return null from the Action) but there is another more popular way which is to create an ActionForward instance in your action and return it: ActionForward fwd = new ActionForward("/FetchNextPage.jsp",true); return fwd; (where the boolean specifies whether its a

RE: Want to do some business logic before the action class of str uts is invoked. How ?

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew Hill
The other alternative would be in the RequestProcessor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 June 2004 16:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Want to do some business logic before the action class of str uts is invoked. How ? Have you loo

RE: Problem in running

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew Hill
Use of struts.jar in the ext folder isnt supported. It should be in WEB-INF/lib with each app having its own copy, otherwise bad things happen with classloaders (as you noticed). Why would it need to be in ext for you to compile your code? What IDE are you using? -Original Message- From:

RE: session problem

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew Hill
The servlet container will try to encode this sessionId in a cookie if it can (saving the need to rewrite links) so you may wish to check the browser settings to see if cookies are enabled. (Its best to make sure you use the html:rewrite tag (or equivelent) for your links though so that your app wi

RE: session problem

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew Hill
l my JSP or some attributed also needs to be passed. Where should i put this tag in the JSP. Andrew Hill wrote: > The servlet container will try to encode this sessionId in a cookie if it > can (saving the need to rewrite links) so you may wish to check the browser > settings to see i

RE: Setting locale for the webapp

2004-06-17 Thread Andrew Hill
You could override processLocale() in the RequestProcessor to set the locale to whatever you configured -Original Message- From: Tim Penhey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:51 To: Struts-User Subject: Setting locale for the webapp I have a web application where I

RE: [OT] Soccer portal released goal.com

2004-06-17 Thread Andrew Hill
+1 -Original Message- From: McCormack, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:13 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Soccer portal released goal.com I for one appreciate the post Simone. Its a good looking site and its nice to see work that developers

RE: [OT] Soccer portal released goal.com

2004-06-17 Thread Andrew Hill
Not that there's anything wrong with it ;-) -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:59 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Soccer portal released goal.com You'd be surprised how many people are closet .Net developers ;

RE: prob in database connectivity

2004-06-18 Thread Andrew Hill
Actually I think this is the link you mean: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -Original Message- From: Rajat Pandit, Gurgaon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 18 June 2004 16:58 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: prob in database connectivity Hello Gitanj

RE: problem with jsession id

2004-06-18 Thread Andrew Hill
Well for a start you should not use html:link for javascript links! (only for real links!) html:link's (primary) purpose is to ensure that the jsessionid is added to a href url if cookies are disabled (or on the first page). Obviously that functionality is hardly applicable for a javascript link wh

RE: which one is better, Validator framework or ActionError

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Hill
depends -Original Message- From: Asim Ghosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 21 June 2004 18:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: which one is better, Validator framework or ActionError hello guys, i have to implement validation which one should i go for 1. Validator Framewor

RE: some best practices questions

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Hill
People seem to treat using the session as though it were some kind of moral sin. There are technical pros and cons to using the session and these should be considered when you do your coding, but the session scope is not harem. You wont be cursed with eternal damnation because you shove a couple o

RE: application configuration

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Hill
I tend to put such things in XML files rather than properties files nowadays. When the app starts up I have a plugin read the files and create configuration objects (using Digester), and put these objects into the servlet context (application scope) where my code can get at them easily. -Ori

RE: application configuration

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Hill
Is this ok...or is there any better approach to do the same thing..? Regards, Viral -Original Message- From: Andrew Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:56 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: application configuration I tend to put such things in XML

RE: ActionForward with runtime parameter?

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Hill
Yep. Pretty much so. Its what we all do. :-) Those who do it often tend to bang up some utility code to reduce the typing but the end result is pretty much the same. You may wish to use the other constructor for ActionForward and preserve the redirect flag. ie: ActionForward fwd = mapping.findFor

RE: ActionForward with runtime parameter?

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Hill
yeh. If you set it as an attribute and try to get it as a parameter your in for some dissapointment ;-) Doing it as an attribute would be ok though so long as its a non-redirecting forward and the place you forward to knows to expect it as an attribute. This does however mean you will also be passi

RE: application configuration

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Hill
y certain he discusses this very issue in detail. (I can't seem to get to that link right now hence cannot verify..) hth, Geeta > -----Original Message- > From: Andrew Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 8:01 AM > To: Struts > Subject: RE: app

RE: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Hill
When you iterate the vector in your action are you modifying its contents in any way (ie: using add or remove, etc...)? -Original Message- From: Richard Aukland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 20:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: java.util.ConcurrentModificationExcept

RE: some best practices questions

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Hill
My understanding (could be wrong on this of course) was that if you dont have sticky sessions the container has to serialise the session to its brethren as necessary. The serialisation is what scares most people, but what scares me is how it knows when and what to serialise (plus the fact it stops

[EVIL] Modifying a request parameter

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew Hill
String[] foo = request.getParameterValues("foo"); foo[2] = "you"; //Naughty naughty. Very naughty. Wicked! Absolutely outrageous mate! ;-> In hindsight an odious but obvious and doubtlessly documented hack, yet Ive spent four frustrating hours figuring out how my poor parameters were getting malic

RE: country state swapping in struts

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew Hill
Oh thank goodness. Its not just me who couldnt parse it. I thought for a moment my brain was having a buffer overrun or something. -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 10 July 2004 01:17 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: country state

RE: [EVIL] Modifying a request parameter

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew Hill
/* * @application name="myApp" makewhen="NOW" generate="TheEntireThing" requirements="readMindOfClient" * */ java.lang.IoException: stream is null at com.unist.plot.Client.readMind(Client.java:666) at com.unist.plot.AppGenerator.generate(AppGenerator.java:666) ... 66

Re: How to Disable "open" button on "File Download" dialogue box....please urgent

2004-07-16 Thread Andrew Hill
Try here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ganesh gadi wrote: Hi Friends, i'm very happy to tell u my problems and get answers. i need a solution how to disable "open" button on "File Download" dialog box.i want control on it. Pls don't say no solution.Bcox i saw that type of dia

Re: never, ever bury an exception!

2004-09-03 Thread Andrew Hill
Yep. If theres one thing I hate its spending hours on a friday night tracing through some other developers code to find why something in the api they expose doesnt work and eventually coming to: catch(Throwable t) { return null; } deep in the bowels of it and knowing that I cant even fix i

Re: detecting form data changes?

2004-09-13 Thread Andrew Hill
Generate a digest (ie: MD5) of those properties in the actionForm that you are watching, and render this to a hidden field in your JSP. When the form is submitted compare this digest to a digest of these fields generated after submission and if different you know that something has changed. Wo

Re: BeanUtils Class Cannot Be Found!

2004-09-13 Thread Andrew Hill
The error is run-time or compile-time? Caroline Jen wrote: I have the commons-beanutils.jar file in my AppName\WEB-INF\lib directory. And I have this statement: import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils; in my .java class. Why do I get the error message that the BeanUtils class cannot be found

Re: How to treat optional dates?

2004-09-16 Thread Andrew Hill
Treating them to a nice dinner and a romantic movie usually works ;-) Any reason you cant model them as null? At any rate, your UI should have them blank when they arent entered so as to avoid confusing the users. If you must store them as 1970 internally then I guess like you say, you will nee

Re: Struts Bloat: Framework

2004-09-21 Thread Andrew Hill
Under your philosophy Struts would end up being just one ActionServlet, a config file, a RequestProcessor, one Action and one ActionForm. Then you'd be on your own to find validation, web layout, dispatch, and tag solutions Now that you come to mention it, this rather seems to be how I use it

Re: Back button killer

2004-10-11 Thread Andrew Hill
Theres not all that much that you can do. The back button is evil. It exists merely for the sole purpose of making our lives a tormented misery... You will find this article of interest though: http://www.theserverside.com/articles/content/RedirectAfterGet/article.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: OT Re: Back Button Woes!!!!

2004-10-11 Thread Andrew Hill
I dunno mate. I wouldnt rule out client-side Java completely. Came across a company called Nexaweb who have an interesting solution for the rich client problem which uses a 1.1 compatible applet for the client side, but has its own set of lightweight widgets (ie: not Swing). They have some onlin

Re: Context path

2004-10-13 Thread Andrew Hill
From the stack trace it looks a classloading issue. I presume that your com.tes.HomeForm and HomeAction classes are in your WEB-INF/classes or a jar in WEB-INF/lib? (Confirm that first though given it worked in 1.3 and assuming you changed nothing else it should still be the case!) Where is you

Re: sending/maintaning a download link

2004-10-13 Thread Andrew Hill
It wouldnt survive a server restart, but this may well be acceptable if you dont expect the server to restart very often and your token expiry is only a day or two and its easy to get another token if needs be. Im not sure what the deal is with stuff added to servlet context after startup in a

Re: i18n and  

2004-10-14 Thread Andrew Hill
a user with bad eyes may choose to use bigger fonts I have perfect eyesight but Ive been making a lot of use of firefox's font resizing abilities lately since my work PC got upgraded to one that can handle 1600 * 1200 resolution... (great for working in eclipse, bad for reading long pages in b

Re: Need Help: XML to HTML using java

2004-10-14 Thread Andrew Hill
These might help: http://stxx.sourceforge.net/ http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2002/jw-0201-strutsxslt.html Kranti Parisa wrote: Thanq i will follow ur suggestion On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:24:36 +0530, Kailash Vasani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, It seems that all you need is XSL transforma

Re: [OT] RE: AspectJ question / lumberjack

2004-10-19 Thread Andrew Hill
oh well this thread is just becoming spam now... ...spam spam spam spamity spam! ;-) Bill Siggelkow wrote: He's as an AspectJock and he's okay He codes all night and he sleeps all day He makes join points, defines point cuts And likes to give advice On Thursday's he compiles And weaves code very n

Re: Curious how others handle these situations..

2004-10-25 Thread Andrew Hill
Hi Rick, I did this for a large application where there were a lot of different record types with various linkages much as your roster has with players, and where said linkages could nest quite deeply. You will need to use the session to do it cleanly. The idea is to somehow keep a stack of Act

Re: Backup ActionForm on ActionError in Action

2004-10-26 Thread Andrew Hill
Sounds like the forward you are returning from your execute is redirecting and hence you get a new request object. Check your struts config to make sure it says redirect="false" and not true for that forward. sqdf qsdf wrote: Hi all! When I add an ActionError in the validate method of ActionForm

Re: How to maintain session in web application if I am using struts

2004-10-29 Thread Andrew Hill
The usual way - Struts works with the session support provided by the Servlet API (HttpSession). Additionally Struts tags that work with urls (html:link for instance) will take care of adding the jsessionid for you (via the appropriate servlet api call to rewrite the url) if the browser has dis

RE: [OT] JSTL : fn library

2004-03-30 Thread Andrew Hill
Hmm, and there I was thinking it was just an abbreviation of what stressed programmers scream after struggling with some obscure feature that refuses to work! - "arrgh! I hate this fn library!" ;-> -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Siggelkow Sent: Tuesd

RE: JavaServer Face

2004-03-31 Thread Andrew Hill
hehe, this (struts vs jsf) has been asked a lot on the list. If you search the list archives you will find a lot of discussion on it, and in the struts wiki I found this page particularly enlightening: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?StrutsMoreAboutJSF -Original Message- Fro

RE: JavaServer Face

2004-03-31 Thread Andrew Hill
rofl! Reckon Im gonna be forwarding that link a fair bit. Nice :-) -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vic Cekvenich Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: JavaServer Face There is also a digram to help you get the picture:

RE: Struts and plugin question

2004-03-31 Thread Andrew Hill
But, fact is that when I want to get my component from servletcontext I have to cast it to my proper type. Is there a way to avoid that? Not really, but you could create a static (or non static if you like) helper method somewhere to take care of both remembering the key and casting: public cl

RE: Struts and plugin question

2004-03-31 Thread Andrew Hill
nt want to introduce a dependency on servlet.jar so just do it like I said below. -Original Message----- From: Andrew Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 23:08 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Struts and plugin question But, fact is that when I want to get my comp

RE: Form submit in JavaScript

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew Hill
Why not? It should work. What error does that give? -Original Message- From: Ramadoss Chinnakuzhandai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2004 03:32 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Form submit in JavaScript I tried that too...but still not able to submit to the a

RE: [FRIDAY OT] .net or websphere?

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew Hill
And dont forget the bodykit, lowered suspension, momo steering wheel, recaro seats, Alpine and a couple of subs, and of course the obligatory Hello Kitty in the back window... -Original Message- From: McCormack, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 5 April 2004 16:22 To: Struts Us

RE: Action Class - No of instances

2004-04-07 Thread Andrew Hill
No, remember that multiple threads for different requests are going to be simultaneously excuting in the action. (So be sure to keep your code thread-safe (stay away from using class member variables etc...) just like you would with a servlet.)) -Original Message- From: Senthivel U S [mail

RE: Jasper error

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
Nope! You cant nest tags like that :-( 2 options: 1. Use a scriptlet in place of that bean:write 2. Use struts-el taglibs (or jstl) instead and an expression to do that value attribute (The syntax of both I forget however as I dont use JSP myself) -Original Message- From: as as [mailto:[

RE: Jasper error

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
lol. Good point Tim, - I should have read his code closer before I told him to use a scriptlet. -Original Message- From: Slattery, Tim - BLS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:43 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Jasper error > property="id" />"/> > Is

RE: Using GET method to submit form in Struts

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
request parameters whether submitted as part of a get url or in a post (or even as part of the url to which a form is posted!) can all be read the same way - via the servlet apis request.getparameter() - and thus will also be populated into the action form automatically by struts, so you can transp

RE: Problem with BeanUtils

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
Its wierd. Your code looks like it should work! Ive not had time to try running it myself but really it looks ok. hmmm. The code you pasted for TypeAbone is the entire source for that class yes? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 20

RE: Jasper error

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
tend to steer clear of using properties like ID, URL, HTML, etc... Ive adopted the convention of always treating them as though they are just words rather than acronymns. ie: getHtml() { return _html; } getUrl() getId() etc... If you can get whoevers doing the other layers to follow such a co

RE: [slightly OT] defensive strategy

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
Actually I think I may have a solution now, to exclude scripted votes - I shall just put a flag in the session to show that the user has actually called up the HTML to see the vote. That way, any script which fires a submit at the voting system will be rejected since it didn't first instantiate a

RE: Email Validation

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
Strewth! Remind me never to open a message on regexp at 3am again. Thought I was reading a lisp forum by mistake. ;-) Reckon that one must have taken a while to come up with! -Original Message- From: Richard Yee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2004 02:50 To: Struts Us

RE: [slightly OT] defensive strategy

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
I could look at weaving the code for the struts transaction token into my JSP. It's already so ugly, it won't make much difference to the aesthetics of the page. Could be worth a go as it looks like you might have to serve up something to be submitted back as proof of valid browsing anyway, and

RE: [slightly OT] defensive strategy

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Hill
them for normal transactions - it just took a paradigm shift for me to recognise this voting process as a transaction! On 04/13/2004 10:42 PM Andrew Hill wrote: > > I could look at weaving the code for the struts transaction token into > my JSP. It's already so ugly, it won't make m

RE: Row

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew Hill
One issue with this is that if there is a *lot* of data then rendering and sending that page to the browser will suffer something of a performance hit. - 100 rows should be ok though, and if you run an compression filter (as discussed in other recent threads) the streaming shouldnt be very intense.

RE: Multiple file uploads

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew Hill
Search the archive and you will find I have explained a technique that involves the use of a single FormFile setter, a session scoped form, and a list, with the user uploading 1 file at a time to the field, submitting it, and being returned to the form with a list of files uploaded so far and a box

RE: [OT] Beer

2004-04-19 Thread Andrew Hill
Ahhh. About time we had a beer thread. Its been a while... :-) -Original Message- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2004 01:10 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Beer Yes he has, and I'm about to join him. -- James Mitchell Software En

RE: is ActionForm thread safe or behaves like Action?

2004-05-11 Thread Andrew Hill
There are two possibilities here based on whether the form is request or session scoped. If the form is request scoped then you need not worry about it as a single request gets a single thread and so threading issues are not of concern with regards to the form being used for the request as each re

RE: critical problem

2004-05-10 Thread Andrew Hill
But after some hours it starts giving problems but at the same time dummy site works fine What sort of problems? The server catches fire? That sounds like overheating. You probably want to use a bigger ventilation fan, and keep a fire extinguisher handy. Make sure the transformer in the power su

RE: submit form question

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Hill
Yes, its a difficult one this. (Afaik) Your only hope is onBeforeUnload(), but in most browsers I have tried, getting the browser to submit the form at this point in time simply didnt work properly for me (ie: it didnt submit!). Does submit() work for you from inside a beforeUnload handler? If so

RE: Newbie question: Deleting an ActionForm that is in session scope.

2004-05-14 Thread Andrew Hill
Yes, you can just remove the form from the session. Struts will create a new one when its needed. :-) -Original Message- From: Adam Lipscombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 May 2004 18:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie question: Deleting an ActionForm that is in session

RE: Newbie question: Deleting an ActionForm that is in session scope.

2004-05-14 Thread Andrew Hill
That will destroy *everything* in the users session. -Original Message- From: John Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 May 2004 18:25 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Newbie question: Deleting an ActionForm that is in session scope. Adam Lipscombe wrote: >Folks, >

RE: Way to reload struts Action classes in WebLogic8.1

2004-05-03 Thread Andrew Hill
No container that I know of lets you selectively replace classes that have already been loaded into the class loader, because Java's class loader API doesn't support unloadClass() or replaceClass(). I use the Sysdeo plugin for eclipse with tomcat and it lets me make minor modifications to code '

RE: [OT] Page Cannot Be Displayed

2004-05-03 Thread Andrew Hill
Take the advice about using your foot for the mouse seriously. The only proper use for a hand is holding a can of beer. ;-) Im not sure I agree on the wire though. Problem is that there is not enough springiness there. The best idea is to have the wires attached to firm springs and the springs att

RE: Problem with using HttpUploadBean with Struts

2004-05-05 Thread Andrew Hill
I am not familiar with the oracle tags in question, but my guess is that the problem is caused by the fact that struts will parse a multipart request so that it can create a request wrapper from which to populate the actionform. I reckon that whats happening is that when the bean in question tries

Re: automatic periodic execution of code

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Hill
I think Quartz has been the general consensus most times this has been debated on the list. Sng Wee Jim wrote: Hi, What would be the recommended way to execute some code periodically on tomcat/appserver? Should I 1. start a thread (not recommended in appserver and tomcat?) and do it in the ru

Re: [OT] java date and time issue

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Hill
1. How to find out what time zone the user is in? You cant (afaik). The closest you can get is to use javascript to determine their current GMT offset, that however will not give you the actual timezone (including such things as daylight savings rules and so forth) but it may be close enough for

Re: struts and jsp

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Hill
Its considered best practice to go through an action first - even in those cases where the action doesnt need to do anything. In such cases its recommended (though not unanimously - we had a bit of a debate about this a couple of weeks ago on the list!) that you also put your JSPs under WEB-INF

Re: [OT] HELP! -- bad links on commons site

2005-02-22 Thread Andrew Hill
Works for me. Probably just a temporary glitch? Erik Weber wrote: This is the only Apache list to which I subscribe, so sorry for the OT. I am trying to download HttpClient 3. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_commons-httpclient.cgi All the links on this page appear to be dead! I t

Re: [OT] [FUN] Software that works!

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Hill
Which leads us into that old joke about the difference between a software salesman and a car salesmen ... John McGrath wrote: it's an acronym -- it stands for the National Automotive Dealers Association (www.nada.org). -Original Message- From: Daniel PC Leung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [OT] [FUN] Software that works!

2005-02-24 Thread Andrew Hill
doh! shiny-side OUT people! do try to remember! http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html Fergal O'Shea wrote: One from this side of the pond. Parents bring their young child into A&E with severe sunburn on a hot summer's day. The doctors ask them how the child got burned. They tell them that, yes, the chil

Re: [OT] [FUN] Software that works!

2005-02-24 Thread Andrew Hill
A car salesman knows when he is lying ;-) Daniel PC Leung wrote: I have not ever heard of it I'd know the difference. On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:29:12 +0800, Andrew Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which leads us into that old joke about the difference between a software salesman and a c

Re: [OT] Bad programming experiences

2005-02-25 Thread Andrew Hill
I dunno mate. The usual technique in the industry would seem to be some variant of the following: Write junk Go home on time (actually get to see family occasionally!) Leave for better job letting someone else cleanup mess Repeat as necessary (Health department warning: If repeated excessively ca

Re: problem with form variables

2005-02-25 Thread Andrew Hill
ERROR! - Unable to reply to post The following exception was raised while processing your post: "insufficient information in request to formulate hypothesis" Correct following errors and retry: { 1.) "every thing" is not defined 2.) "getting the values from the form bean" fails to provide context 3

Re: [OT] Re: Struts Approach

2005-02-27 Thread Andrew Hill
> Not to hit below the belt, but the only place that I have seen that > naming used in practice is in the Win32/COM world. Can you name > another? ;-) We do it as part of our coding conventions (we also do the Abstractxxx thing too). Im rather pro doing it that way too. Mostly its a matter of t

Re: How to convert Strings in ActionForm to date, double etc. in VO..

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Hill
There is a fair bit of support in commons-beanutils for this sort of thing. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils/api/ Take a look at BeanUtils.copyProperties() to start with at that sounds closest to your needs. (btw: Struts also makes use of BeanUtils for form population so the jar file

Re: Here's a question for yous...

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Hill
Dunno about struts 1.2, but in 1.1 there wasn't an option for it. That said, it would probably take you only a few minutes to override the request processor to do it. indeed I recall having done that before myself a year or two back ahh... here we go - protected void processPopulate(HttpServletR

Re: How to convert Strings in ActionForm to date, double etc. in VO..

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Hill
Whats wrong with the conversion support in BeanUtils? Prasad, Kamakshya wrote: HI, Thanks a lot for the reference. But we where also looking for something which can perform the necessary type conversion like string to date, string to double KP -Original Message- From: Andrew Hill [mailto

Re: Issues keeping specifc data type in ActionForm instead of string

2005-03-01 Thread Andrew Hill
Imagine you have an int field and the user types in the value "anything but zero, oh please not zero, cause if its zero Im screwed". Take a guess at what value you will get in the field... Prasad, Kamakshya wrote: Hi, What all issues are there in keeping the data type of the attributes in Acti

Re: MVC Frameworks

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Hill
Why would the users have trouble accepting Spring if you werent using the MVC part - how does that impact on the UI to an extent that a user could notice? Fogleson, Allen wrote: I think the biggest argument was stated by Nicolas. I use struts because I like it sure, but I really use it because i

Re: Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms?

2005-03-20 Thread Andrew Hill
Yes. I always validate in Actions and not in the form itself (though I often delegate to a seperate helper class from the action (and configure the helper in a subclass of ActionMapping and have an abstract action superclass manage its lifecycle)). Validating in the form I find to be troublesom

Re: [REFERENDUM] Struts is a Community

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Hill
+1 Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) wrote: First of all: Happy Birthday Ted (maybe a bit late, but I read the Struts mailinglist only in the office because of its hig volume) Is Struts a product? - If products means that it is marketed: I do not have the feeling - If

Re: Handling multiple rows

2004-10-31 Thread Andrew Hill
QUIT SPAMMING THE LIST! http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Reposting your question every 5 minutes is a brilliant way to really annoy people and guarantee that of those people who could help you , almost all will not due to your rudeness. (Though they will quite happily spend the

Re: Upload file size limit

2004-11-03 Thread Andrew Hill
One technique would be overriding dispatchactions execute method in that action to check for this attribute and then delegating back to the superclass to handle the normal situation when its not found or calling the appropriate method when it is? ie: public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping m

Re: security issue

2004-11-07 Thread Andrew Hill
You cant control what the client browser sends to the server (as hackers can spoof almost anything thats sent) so you need to treat all data from the client as suspiscious until proven otherwise! This means validating any data that is submitted to your application before your application makes

Re: Session invalidation problem

2004-11-08 Thread Andrew Hill
If a user has multiple windows/frames/tabs open and both are making requests at once (or it could be a double submit from a single window (which you could catch using tokens)) then you might see this sort of thing occur occasionally. In this situation you have two threads both of which have a

Re: A new paradigm of Struts development

2004-11-09 Thread Andrew Hill
The average PHB thinks EJB *is* J2EE... :-( Vic (Vinny) Cekvenich wrote: Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) wrote: JSF will be part of J2EE (as of version 1.5). That will make it hard to explain to "pointy hairy boss" type managers why one wants to use another framework. So is EJB a part of J2EE for a l

Re: Are there Struts Applications in real life out there?

2004-11-09 Thread Andrew Hill
selling over a hundred thousand copies combined -- but no one is actually using it in production. :) Like EJB?... ;-) Ted Husted wrote: LOL. :) Yes, over the last two years at least nineteen different publishers each decided to publish books about Struts, surely selling over a hundred thousand

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