struts book -- ch03

maya89 · November 26th, 2006, 04:38 PM

Hi,

I'm following chapter 3 of Struts book to the letter.. using struts 1.3.5, Tomcat 5.5... get error on index.jsp... pls see screen-shot here.. www.mayacove.com/java/error.gif

did index.jsp, and the classes, all following instructions in the book, the classes (LookupForm and LookupAction) compile fine.. put the packages from Jakarta Struts download where they belong..

error says "org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp(34,0) Unable to find setter method for attribute: name..."

which refers to this line in jsp:

  <html:form action="Lookup" name="lookupForm" type="ch03.LookupForm">

what is wrong with "name" attribute....

JSP servlet is not non-existent (when look in tomcat/work/.... etc.. don't see either index_jsp.java or index_jsp.class..) i.e. JSP for some reason is not even being read by container..)

I have in struts-config.xml:

  <form-beans>
    <form-bean name="lookupForm" type="ch03.LookupForm" />
  </form-beans>

  <action path="/Lookup" type="ch03.LookupAction" name="lookupForm">....</action>

in LookupAction.java:

  LookupForm lookupForm = (LookupForm)form;

(this is confusing: so lookupForm is name of form but also an instantiation of the other class in the package...(??)

would appreciate any leads.. thank you..

Bors_Aut · December 28th, 2006, 09:19 AM

The attribute name isnt allowed. So you have to deleted it.

Code:

<html:form action="Lookup">
  <table width="45%" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td>Symbol:</td>
      <td><html:text property="symbol" /></td>
    </tr>
...

giorgio9 · January 5th, 2007, 09:29 PM

Hello to all. I have a question: about which book on Struts 1.3.5 are you speaking?

GiÃ²

Bors_Aut · January 8th, 2007, 04:54 AM

Professional Jakarta Struts (James Goodwill, Richard Hightower)

ad maya:

the problem isnt in index.jsp.
it might be in LookupForm.