Struts-Portlet

Question

Hello,
I have created a very simple login form that uses the struts framework. It validates that there is a userid and password in the textfields before it submits through the action. The problem is, the only way I can get the portlet to recognize that I pushed the submit button, is to add "/login.do" (which is my action) for the <showpage> tag in the provider.xml. So now everytime I navigate to my page with this form on it, it acts like i just pressed the submit button and spits the error messages back to me saying i need to enter a userid and password. I've tried making an initialize action with no validation at all and just forward to my login.jsp, so i put that in the <showpage> tag, but doing this makes it so it doesn't recognize my /login.do action.
Any suggestions maybe as to what I am doing wrong or missing.
Here is my provider.xml:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<?providerDefinition version="3.1"?>
<provider class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.DefaultProviderDefinition">
<session>true</session>
<passAllUrlParams>true</passAllUrlParams>
<!--
<preferenceStore class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.preference.FilePreferenceStore">
<name>ProviderPrefStore</name>
<useHashing>true</useHashing>
</preferenceStore>
-->
<preferenceStore class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.preference.DBPreferenceStore">
<name>prefStore1</name>
<connection>jdbc/DBPreferencesDS</connection>
</preferenceStore>
<portlet class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.DefaultPortletDefinition">
<id>1</id>
<name>modeChanges</name>
<title>Mode Changes</title>
<description>Mode Changes Description</description>
<timeout>360</timeout>
<showEditToPublic>false</showEditToPublic>
<hasAbout>true</hasAbout>
<showEdit>true</showEdit>
<hasHelp>true</hasHelp>
<showEditDefault>true</showEditDefault>
<showDetails>true</showDetails>
<showPreview>true</showPreview>
<renderer class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.RenderManager">
<renderContainer>true</renderContainer>
<renderCustomize>true</renderCustomize>
<autoRedirect>true</autoRedirect>
<contentType>text/html</contentType>
<showPage class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.http.StrutsRenderer">/login.do</showPage>
<editPage>/edit.jsp</editPage>
<helpPage>/help.jsp</helpPage>
<previewPage>/preview.jsp</previewPage>
<aboutPage>/about.jsp</aboutPage>
<editDefaultsPage>/edit_defaults.jsp</editDefaultsPage>
</renderer>
<personalizationManager class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.personalize.PrefStorePersonalizationManager">
<dataClass>com.ahrs.portal.prototype.modes.CustomPersonalization</dataClass>
</personalizationManager>
</portlet>
</provider>

Answer 1

Thank you so much.
I did try that before when I was looking through some examples but it kept giving me a 500 server error. So I looked into it some more and it was saying there was no provider session. So i changed the settings on my provider in the portal under the 'user login frequency' that was set at 'Once per session' so i changed it to 'always' and it works fine. Now I have one more issue, if I add another portlet to the same page, this portlet gives me that 500 error again about no provider session. It works fine if it is all by itself but not if there is more than one portlet on the same page.