Struts support in portal

When is portal going to properly support Struts based applications?
Jdev 903 has support for Strust (well sort of it's somewhere between Strust 1.0 and 1.1) - thanks Jdev team! but Portal in 9iAS 902 does not support struts apps at all! One can deploy a struts based app as a portal provider but when it comes to running the struts app modules as portlets it bombs! The app does work in Jdev though...
So much for following Oracle's advice on using frameworks and believing that it would actually work in the app server as it should AN INTEGRATED APPLICATION SERVER.

Why then does Oracle reccomend that development teams use this type of development framework, knowing full well that apps developed in this manner will not work in the app server portal product.
If we cannot deploy a J2EE app developed using struts & BC4J into portal what is the point of using the app server, one may aswell deploy on Tomcat. The whole point of using Portal is the additional services such SSO, OID, Portal Page Designer etc that make development of the app faster.
Don't get me wrong - we are totally commited to Oracle & the product set - what makes my blood boil is that we adpot a strategy as advocated by Oracle for RAD by using BC4J & Struts only to find we cannot deliver to the customer because Oracle never told us it wouldn't work.

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"Cannot parse the struts configuration file."
Given that this is a file supplied with the struts distro and that I can deploy
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Can anyone please help?
Thanks,
--Andy Hull

I'm currently trying to deploy the struts-example webapp from Struts 1.1 RC1 into
Weblogic Portal 8.1 using the Struts Portlet wizard made available by the "JSR
168 and Struts Support" patch.
I select the struts module successfully "struts-example" and am prompted for the
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becomes "jpf-struts-config-struts-example.xml").
As soon as I hit next, I am prompted with a dialog informing that me that [Workbench]
"Cannot parse the struts configuration file."
Given that this is a file supplied with the struts distro and that I can deploy
the struts-example to Vanilla WLS 8.1 without problems I suspect this is a problem
with my attempt to use the Struts Portlet.
Can anyone please help?
Thanks,
--Andy Hull

Struts Support: Parsing Portlet JSP File failed

I've manually edited a my .portlet file to contain a strutsContent element (copied
from the struts.porlet in the JSR 168 and Struts Support sample). When I run my
portal I get an error message:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Didn't find TagInfo for tag:strutsContent
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance,
--Andy

Subbu,
Thanks for the tip - netuix_taglib.jar was indeed the not the correct version.
Interestingly, this file is not mentioned in the "JSR 168 and Struts Support"
install docs. I have replaced this file and the struts-example webapp now starts
(after setting up an action to forward to the index page).
However, I am having problems with the message bundle properties files ApplicationResources.properties
and AlternateApplicationResources.properties as neither of these files are being
picked up.
These files are located in org/apache/struts/webapp/example in WEB-INF/src and
WEB-INF/classes of my webapp (i.e. <WEBAPP>/WEB-INF - my struts-example resides
in <WEBAPP>/struts-example).
I've also tried adding <init-param>'s to the <WEB-APP>/WEB-INF/web.xml file for
the action servlet as follows:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<init-param>
<param-name>application</param-name>
<param-value>org.apache.struts.webapp.example.ApplicationResources</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>alternate</param-name>
<param-value>org.apache.struts.webapp.example.AlternateApplicationResources</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
When I use the logon action as the starting action for the portlet, I get:
Error opening /struts-example/logon.jsp.
The source of this error is javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot find message
resources under key alternate at weblogic.servlet.jsp.PageContextImpl.handlePageException...
Any help would be appreciated.
--Andy
Subbu Allamaraju <subbuATbeaDOTcom> wrote:
Andy,
Does this webapp contain the patched versions of netuix_servlet.jar and
netuix_taglib.jar? Also make sure that the patched netuix_system.jar
is
in the system classpath.
Subbu
Andy Hull wrote:
I've manually edited a my .portlet file to contain a strutsContentelement (copied
from the struts.porlet in the JSR 168 and Struts Support sample). WhenI run my
portal I get an error message:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Didn't find TagInfo for tag:strutsContent
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance,
--Andy

Struts Support

Just to complete my set of unreasonable requests, I would also love to see Struts support for JSR 168 Portlets.
The Apache Struts project now has a Struts Portlet Bridge, so it may just be a question of porting this to Plumtree's JSR 168 implementation.
Ths may actually eb higher priority than JSF support, since we and everyone else have lots of Struts web apps that we would like to convert to portlets.

Why then does Oracle reccomend that development teams use this type of development framework, knowing full well that apps developed in this manner will not work in the app server portal product.
If we cannot deploy a J2EE app developed using struts & BC4J into portal what is the point of using the app server, one may aswell deploy on Tomcat. The whole point of using Portal is the additional services such SSO, OID, Portal Page Designer etc that make development of the app faster.
Don't get me wrong - we are totally commited to Oracle & the product set - what makes my blood boil is that we adpot a strategy as advocated by Oracle for RAD by using BC4J & Struts only to find we cannot deliver to the customer because Oracle never told us it wouldn't work.

Using Struts with Oracle Portal

Hello,
I am trying to run my applications developed using Struts Framework in Oracle Portal.Though Oracle Portal uses jpdk api's is there any way I can try to integrate Struts with Oracle Portal so that I can work test my application on any server and then develop portlet and run them on Oracle Portal as well?

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Welsh language support in Portal

Does anyone know if/when the Welsh Language will be supported in Portal?
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I can support this - I am struggling to design an intranet in both Welsh and English.
Who do we need to talk to in Oracle to get this one rolling.
Bye the way I understand you did some work recently for the Forestry Commission in Edinburgh. I am also looking for some similar work to be undertaken but have not been offered your name as a consultant. Are you interested? Please mail me URGENTLY if you are.
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Does anyone know if/when the Welsh Language will be supported in Portal?
UK Government related sites have to have this language as well as English.
Regards
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JSR 168 and Struts support sample error

I'm trying to get the sample webapp for JSR 168 and Struts support working with
WebLogic 8.1, and I'm having problems with the struts portlet. The other portlets
seem to work fine, but the Struts portlet gives the following error after clicking
"Save" on most of the forms:
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Action: html-setters.do
Unable to find action html-setters.do.
That error appears in the browser. At the same time, the following exception
appears in the server window:
<Aug 18, 2003 4:34:12 PM EDT> <Error> <netui> <BEA-420012> <There was an error
while running a lifecycle stage :: Lifecycle: UIControl.render :: for the control
:: null ::.
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Thanks,
Patrick

Hi Brodi,
I am having the same problem as Patrick. The problem is not in the struts portlet,
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am able to use the html:links and navigate through the pages. Though when I try
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l :: null ::.
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"Brodi Beartusk" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Patrick-
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correctly
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file.
Ensure that you have a the struts config file for the exercise-taglib
module in
WEB-INF, named jpf-struts-config-struts-exercise-taglib.xml.
-Brodi Beartusk
"Patrick Callis" <[email protected]> wrote:
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with
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portlets
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<Aug 18, 2003 4:34:12 PM EDT> <Error> <netui> <BEA-420012> <There was
an error
while running a lifecycle stage :: Lifecycle: UIControl.render :: for
the control
:: null ::.
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not do
page flow lookup for the given action [html-setters.do] in the given
PageFlow:
[struts/exercise-taglib].
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as well as several stack overflow errors.
I believe I have installed the JSR168 and Struts support package according
to
the instructions, and have copied the required jars into the samples
WEB-INF/lib
directory. I also have tried to write my own Struts application ina
portlet,
and it gets the exact same errors when I try to submit a form to myactions.
Any insight would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Patrick

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