[liammullan]

Hi,

I have a newbe question regarding the use of stuts in a J2EE project.

I have developed a small struts project as described in the tutorials, and have a nice struts-config.xml and a generated web.xml. It works fine.

Now I want to add the capability of using ejb references to a simple accompanying EJB project. My question is how can I add the ejb-ref elements to the default struts web.xml? I would like to use XDoclet, but if I use the deploymentdescriptor Xdoclet subtask, it replaces the action servlet info in the default struts web.xml.

This question would also apply to other changes I might want to make to web.xml, for example adding servlet mapping elements etc.

any help appreciated,

Liam

ps I’m using eclipse 3.0.1, jboss 3.2.5, myeclipse 3.8.2

[Scott Anderson]

Liam,

Great question. Unfortunately, I’m not an expert on using Struts with XDoclet and EJB generation, so I snooped around and found a tutorial on DevX that looks like it will be helpful to you. It’s available here:
http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21065/0/page/1

It’s not based on MyEclipse, but it is Eclipse based so it should be similar to what you need. Can anyone else provide any insights?

[liammullan]

Hi,

thanks thanks for the pointer Scott. The article implies the solution of splitting the web.xml generated by MyEclipse-struts into a merge directory prior to running xdoclet tasks. This works well.

I image I could use the ‘strutsconfigxml’ XDoclet subtask instead, but when I run it I get an error:

BUILD FAILED: C:\eclipse3-0-1\eclipse\workspace\TrainingTest\xdoclet-build.xml:32: Can’t create a strutsconfigxml element under webdoclet. Make sure the jar file containing the corresponding subtask class is on the classpath specified in the <taskdef> that defined {2}.

I’ve seen this error mentioned once or twice but never found a solution… I have the xdoclet jar on the build path for the project. Anyone have an idea?

thanks,

Liam

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