PS. I do not know if my answering the questions in the way I do it breaks it for the readers of the mailinglist. I read and respond on the Nabble mailinglist archive. If my way of answering breaks it for the readers of the mailinglist, say so. I will stop this at once.
Abel AbelMacAdam wrote: > > Hi Alberto, > > Thanks for taking the time for this extensive answer. I will try to answer > the questions you pose > > Alberto A. Flores wrote: >> >> How are you building your application? It sounds like you are not using >> maven (I highly recommend it so you avoid many problem). Now, a couple >> of things about this post: >> > Sorry, I'm bootstrapping. I have seen maven mentioned, but are too new to > *also* include maven. I might have maven installed, but am not actively > using it. > > > - The error you are referring, is it an error in Eclipse or during >> deployment? Two BIG different things. > The error I mentioned is the one I see in Eclipse. The result I describe > (no text fields or submit button) is what I observe in Tomcat. The > relation between the two is made by myself. > > > - If Eclipse doesn't recognize the struts 2 tag, it's because you have >> not included the strut2-*.jar files in the classpath. > It could very well be that I forgot to add the Struts-specific jar files > to the classpath. As I threw the diretory away after I continued with > following examples I now have a hard time to recreate the problem. > > > Please check the >> documentation of Eclipse if you are not familiar how to do that. Since >> the way URI resolution has changed through out the different JSP >> versions, Eclipse will resolve the URI according to the following >> heuristic (see link - >> http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jst/components/jsp/designs/taglibindex/taglibindex.html) >> > Will do. the document is now rolling off the printer. > > > >> Please keep in mind that the fact that it resolves in Eclipse is no >> indication that it will resolve during deployment (unless you have a >> good development environment that mimics your deployment jars) >> > No such luck. The error message is gone in Eclipse, but the input boxes > and submit button are still gone in Tomcat. > > > >> - Depending on the container that you are using, you don't need to use >> web.xml at all (tld file should be within the jar file and the container >> should know where to look for it) >> > Strangely enough, the taglib was not in web.xml, but in a jsp. > > > >> - What jars have you included? At a minimum you shouls have: >> struts-core-x.jar, xwork-x.jar, ognl-x.jar, freemarker-x.jar (x refers >> to the release, which may not be the same). These releases are easy to >> obtain if you use maven. If you don't then, when you download the struts >> 2 distribution, these should come. If you are learning, just copy *all* >> and learn what breaks as you take jar by jar off the lib directory. >> > As I had to recreate the example, I can not say what I had. But what you > say is sound advice. Put all eggs in the basket, and throw out all > extraneous ones until the last one breaks the application. > > > - If the textfield doesn't show, there may be many reasons for that to >> happen. Have you consider? (i) Not having all jars in the lib directory, >> (ii) your struts tag having a "name" attribute mapping to an unknown >> property. (iii) Have you looked at the produced HTML? (iv) Have you >> checked all logs? >> > So many places to check. As a newbie, I do not know where to check. But > hopefully in the future I will know (as a matter of fact, I already look > in the different log files of Tomcat and Apache, but can't find any > interesting tidbits pointing me to profound knowledge. But that's being a > starter, I think). > On your question of not having all jars in (Tomcats/)the lib directory: > No. Should I copy everything to Tomcat? > On your second question of my struts tag having an attribute to an unknown > property. I don't know. I think this is not the case, as I use the code of > the author and think this code is flawless (*famous last words of a > newbie*). > > But as I said, the next example is not broken. So I will ponder on. But > thanks for your answer. > Abel > > AbelMacAdam wrote: >> >> AbelMacAdam wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm learning to work with Struts. (FWIW, I use Eclipse Europa, and >>> Apache/Tomcat). Now I have my first example with a tld-file. First of >>> all, >>> I noticed the following error in Eclipse on a jsp: >>> Cannot find the tag library descriptor for /tags/struts-html >>> >>> The first line of the jsp with the error is: >>> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %> >>> >>> My WEB-INF/web.xml contains the following lines: >>> <taglib> >>> <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-html</taglib-uri> >>> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts_html.tld</taglib-location> >>> </taglib> >>> >>> And the same WEB-INF directory also contains the struts_html.tld file. >>> >>> So far the background. If I run this example in Tomcat I get a page >>> without textfields and a submit button. So this example clearly does not >>> work. Do you know what I need to do to get this example working? Am I >>> right in assuming I get not textfields/buttons because the tag library >>> descriptor is not found? >>> >>> TIA, >>> Abel >>> >> >> What version of Struts 1 are you using? >> >>> None. I actually use 2.0.11. >> >> Easy way to check: unpack the jar and see if the META-INF directory >> contains the tld. It could very well be an incorrectly built jar. >> >>> Struts.jar contains struts-html.tld >> >> And strangely enough, the next example did not show the error, and was >> displayed correctly. I even added Struts to the first example. But it >> still >> does not work. If no one else has an explanation I write it off to earth >> rays. >> >> Abel > > -- > > Alberto A. 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