Question

struts login example issue

Asked by: gudii9

Hi,

I am trying to run a struts 1.1 login example in RAD 7.0 within websphere 6.1 server. My code looks as follows. It has simple form, action, three simple jsps and a validation. When i try to run it giving error saying 'unable to locate tag library tags-html as in attachment




ApplicationResources.properties looks like





# Resources for parameter 'com.myeclipseide.example.struts.ApplicationResources'
# Project StrutsLoginExample
error.name.required=User Name Required
error.password.required=Password Required
error.name.myeclipse=Please enter MyEclipse1 as the User Name
error.password.myeclipse=Please enter MyEclipse2 as the Password


index.jsp looks like

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>MyEclipse Struts Login Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>
            MyEclipse Struts Login Example Project
        </h1>
        <div
            style="padding-left: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; background: #f0f0f0">
            <b><a href="userLogin.jsp">Click here</a> to begin testing this
                example</b>
        </div>
        <h2>
            Description
        </h2>

        A tutorial showing how to develop a simple login-style Struts application.
       
               <br>
        <h2>
            Requirements
        </h2>
        MyEclipse 6.0 or a previous version of MyEclipse with an application
        server that the project can be deployed to and run.
        <h2>
            How to Run
        </h2>

            You can right-click on this project and go to Debug As or Run As then select
            "MyEclipse Server Application". MyEclipse 6.0 and later will automatically deploy
            the application to the MyEclipse Tomcat Server, then start it up and open
            a browser window for you to the index.jsp page.
        <br>
        <h2>
            Related Links
        </h2>
        <ul>
            <li>

                MyEclipse Web Project Tutorial -
                <a href="http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/webprojects/">http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/webprojects/</a>
            </li>
            <li>
                MyEclipse Application Server Tutorial -
                <a href="http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/appservers/">http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/appservers/</a>
            </li>
            <li>
                MyEclipse Struts 1.x Tutorial -
                <a href="http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/struts/">http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/struts/</a>
            </li>
        </ul>
        <h2>
            Feedback
        </h2>

        We hope you found this example project helpful. If you ran into any
        problems
        <br>
        while working with the example project, please feel free to post to
        our Example
        <br>
        Project Forum (
        <a href="http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2-viewforum-f-54.html">http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2-viewforum-f-54.html</a>)
        and
        <br>
        let us know. Also if you had any suggestions for improvements, noticed
        something
        <br>
        wrong or just wanted to ask questions we encourage you to post and let
        us know!
    </body>
</html>




userLogin.jsp looks like




<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html"%>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html:html lang="true">
<head>
      <html:base />

      <title>JSP for UserLoginForm form</title>

      <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
      <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
      <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
      <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3">
      <meta http-equiv="description" content="This is my page">
      <!--
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
      -->
</head>
<body>
      <html:form action="/userLogin">
            <table border="1" cellpadding="4">
                  <tbody>
                        <tr>
                              <td align="right">
                                    User Name:
                              </td>
                              <td>
                                    <html:text property="userName" />
                              </td>
                              <td>
                                    <html:errors property="userName" />
                              </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                              <td align="right">
                                    Password:
                              </td>
                              <td>
                                    <html:password property="password" />
                              </td>
                              <td>
                                    <html:errors property="password" />
                              </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                              <td>
                                    &nbsp;
                              </td>
                              <td>
                                    <html:submit />
                                    <html:cancel />
                              </td>
                        </tr>
                  </tbody>
            </table>
      </html:form>
</body>
</html:html>



userLoginSuccess looks like

<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html:html>
  <head>
    <title>My Struts 'userLoginSuccess.jsp' ending page</title>
  </head>
 
  <body>
    Hello <bean:write name="userName" scope="request" />, you successfully logged in!
  </body>
</html:html>




struts-config looks like




<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd">

<struts-config>
      <form-beans>
            <form-bean name="userLoginForm"
                  type="com.myeclipseide.examples.struts.form.UserLoginForm" />
      </form-beans>
      <global-exceptions />
      <global-forwards />
      <action-mappings>
            <action attribute="userLoginForm" input="/userLogin.jsp"
                  name="userLoginForm" path="/userLogin" scope="request"
                  validate="true"
                  type="com.myeclipseide.examples.struts.action.UserLoginAction">
                  <forward name="success" path="/userLoginSuccess.jsp" />
                  <forward name="failure" path="/userLogin.jsp" />
            </action>
      </action-mappings>
      <message-resources
            parameter="com.myeclipseide.examples.struts.ApplicationResources" />
</struts-config>



web.xml looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.5"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
      <servlet>
            <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>
                  org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet
            </servlet-class>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>config</param-name>
                  <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>debug</param-name>
                  <param-value>3</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>detail</param-name>
                  <param-value>3</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
      </servlet>
      <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
      </servlet-mapping>
      <welcome-file-list>
            <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
      </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>



UserLoginAction looks like





package com.myeclipseide.examples.struts.action;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;

import com.myeclipseide.examples.struts.form.UserLoginForm;

public class UserLoginAction extends Action {
      @Override
      public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
                  HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
            UserLoginForm userLoginForm = (UserLoginForm) form;

            if (userLoginForm.getUserName().equalsIgnoreCase("myeclipse1")
                        && userLoginForm.getPassword().equalsIgnoreCase("myeclipse2")) {
                  request.setAttribute("userName", userLoginForm.getUserName());
                  return mapping.findForward("success");
            }

            return mapping.findForward("failure");

      }
}



userLoginForm looks like





package com.myeclipseide.examples.struts.form;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessage;

public class UserLoginForm extends ActionForm {
      private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

      private String password;

      private String userName;

      @Override
      public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping,
                  HttpServletRequest request) {

            ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();

            if (getUserName() == null || getUserName().length() < 1) {
                  errors.add("userName", new ActionMessage("error.name.required"));
            } else if (!getUserName().equalsIgnoreCase("myeclipse1")) {
                  errors.add("userName", new ActionMessage("error.name.myeclipse1"));
            }
            if (getPassword() == null || getPassword().length() < 1) {
                  errors
                              .add("password", new ActionMessage(
                                          "error.password.required"));
            } else if (!getPassword().equalsIgnoreCase("myeclipse2")) {
                  errors.add("password",
                              new ActionMessage("error.password.myeclipse2"));
            }

            return errors;

      }

      @Override
      public void reset(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) {
            password = null;
            userName = null;
      }

      public String getPassword() {
            return password;
      }

      public void setPassword(String password) {
            this.password = password;
      }

      public String getUserName() {
            return userName;
      }

      public void setUserName(String userName) {
            this.userName = userName;
      }
}



Any ideas, suggestions, sample code, links highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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by: sanjoozPosted on 2009-08-26 at 18:37:12ID: 25193881

 

by: gudii9Posted on 2009-08-27 at 09:39:46ID: 25200172

i tried to add struts-taglib-1.3.8 from location D:\Program Files\Genuitec\MyEclipse 7.5\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\bundles\10\1\.cp\lib but says duplicate entry( by the way same application with same code working fine in myEclipse not in RAD...in RAD it is going to index page but within that page when i click

'click here' giving error message like tags-html

as in screenshot.

 

by: gudii9Posted on 2009-08-27 at 11:15:34ID: 25201088

I tried to add the taglib

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
      <display-name>
      StrutsLogin</display-name>
      <servlet>
            <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>
            org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>config</param-name>
                  <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>debug</param-name>
                  <param-value>2</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>detail</param-name>
                  <param-value>2</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>validate</param-name>
                  <param-value>true</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
      </servlet>
      <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
      </servlet-mapping>
      
      
      
      <welcome-file-list>
            <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
            <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
            <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
            <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
            <welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
            <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
      </welcome-file-list>
      
      <taglib>
      <taglib-uri>testTags</taglib-uri>
      <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/tags-html.tld</taglib-location>
 </taglib>
      
</web-app>

as given in above link and some syntax errors coming in web.xml. Please advise on how i can resolve it.

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