Assignment using context parameter

Hi all,
Does anybody know how to set more than one user to a GP Role using context attribute?
I've tried set the attribute with users delimited by comman, semicolon, but it doesn't work.
Best regards

Hi Isaias,
You have to give the user logon Ids separated by comma. And your attribute should be a list in that case.
Regards,
Srinivasan Subbiah

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Problem in using context param for storing database connection information

Hello Friends,
I am new to struts & jsp.I am developing a project in struts.I have 1 jsp page called editProfile.jsp.On submitting this page it will call 1 action class.The action class in turn will call the Plain old java class where I have written the logic for updating User Profile.
I have created context-param in web.xml for database connection information like dbURL , dbUserName , dbPassword , jdbcDriver.Now I want to use these connection information in my Business logic(Plain Old Java Class).As we can use context parameter only in jsp & servlets , I am setting the variables of my business logic class with these context param in jsp itself.
now when I am calling the updateProfile method of Business logic class from Action class it is giving error as all the connection variables which I set in jsp for my business logic class has become null again.
I am not getting.If once I have set those variables how come they are becoming null again???Please help me.Any Help will be highly appreciated.Thanx in advance.

This is the code I have written
web.xml file
<context-param>
<param-name>jdbcDriver</param-name>
<param-value>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>dbUrl</param-name>
<param-value>jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:gd</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>dbUserName</param-name>
<param-value>system</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>dbPassword</param-name>
<param-value>password</param-value>
</context-param>
EditProfile.jsp
<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<jsp:useBean id="EditProfile" scope="application"
class="com.myapp.struts.EditProfile"/>
<!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>Edit My Profile</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="submitEditProfileForm.do" focus="txt_FirstName" method="post">
<%
EditProfile.setjdbcDriver(application.getInitParameter("jdbcDriver"));
EditProfile.setdbURL(application.getInitParameter("dbURL"));
EditProfile.setdbUserName(application.getInitParameter("dbUserName"));
EditProfile.setdbPassword(application.getInitParameter("dbPassword"));
-----------more code goes here------------
EditActionProfile.java
package com.myapp.struts;
import javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.core.Config;
import org.apache.struts.action.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class EditProfileAction extends Action {
public EditProfileAction()
public ActionForward execute(
ActionMapping mapping,
ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception
try
if (isCancelled(request))
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EditProfileForm epf = (EditProfileForm)form;
EditProfile ep = new EditProfile();
String temp = ep.updateProfile(epf.getTxt_FirstName(),epf.getTxt_MiddleName() , epf.getTxt_LastName() , epf.getTxt_Address() , epf.getTxt_Email() );
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return mapping.findForward("success");
else
return mapping.findForward("failure");
catch(SQLException e)
System.out.println("error" + e.getMessage());
return mapping.findForward("failure");
EditProfile.java class (My Business Logic Class)
package com.myapp.struts;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.sql.*;
public class EditProfile {
private String dbURL;
private String dbUserName , jdbcDriver;
private String dbPassword;
private Connection con;
private Statement stmt;
public EditProfile()
public void setdbURL(String s )
this.dbURL = s;
public void setdbUserName(String s )
this.dbUserName = s;
public void setdbPassword(String s )
this.dbPassword = s;
public void setjdbcDriver(String s )
this.jdbcDriver = s;
public String updateProfile(String firstname , String middlename , String lastname , String address , String email)
throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException , java.lang.InstantiationException , IllegalAccessException
try
String s1 = new String("update usr set first_name='" + firstname + "' , middle_name='" + middlename + "' , last_name='" + lastname +"' , address='" + address + "' , email_id='" + email + "' where usr_key=1" );
con = this.init();
System.out.println("after init");
stmt = con.createStatement();
int rslt = stmt.executeUpdate(s1);
System.out.println("after excute update");
stmt.close();
if(rslt>=1)
return "SUCCESS";
else
return "Failure";
finally
if (null != con)
con.close();
public Connection init() throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException
Class.forName(jdbcDriver);
con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL, dbUserName, dbPassword);
return con;
public void close(Connection connection) throws SQLException
if (!connection.isClosed())
connection.close();
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[svn:fx-trunk] 7071: Providing assignable lvalue context while parsing rvalues in preparation to fix bugs such as SDK-17748 and SDK-18877 .

Revision: 7071
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-05-19 08:17:09 -0700 (Tue, 19 May 2009)
Log Message:
Providing assignable lvalue context while parsing rvalues in preparation to fix bugs such as SDK-17748 and SDK-18877. This change makes the compiler aware of a new piece of metadata . When parsing text values, this metadata instructs the TextParser to not look for literal syntax for Arrays, Booleans, Numbers, etc... and instead just treat the content as String. However, it will still honor { } binding syntax and @function syntax.
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QE: Not yet
Doc: No
Checkintests: Pass
Cyclone Tests: Mxunit, Mxunit - compc, Mxunit - rsl, Mxmlcunit, Compiler api all pass.
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