[fermataintl]

Is there a way to manually upgrade struts in myeclipse to version 1.2.4? I am attempting to migrate an application that I developed using just vi and ant into the ide, and I am dependent on the latest version. The download includes a number of jars (e.g., struts.jar) and some dtds and tlds.

Thanks.
Dean

[Riyad Kalla]

If you just want to update that App, then just drop the JARs in. If you want to update the JARs MyEclipse is using then navigate to Window > Prefs > MyEclipse > Project Capabilities > Struts, flip to the Struts 1.2 tab, and adjust them to whatever resources you want them to be. These will now be used when you “Add Struts Capabilties” to projects.

[fermataintl]

Cool, thanks for your help!

[Riyad Kalla]

No problem, that’s what we do 😛

[fermataintl]

The method you suggested whereby I change the jars and tlds that get copied when I choose add struts 1.2 capabilities does not appear to work. I set up the files on my file system and removed and added each one in the interface. I added the capabilites to a toy project but on inspection the files that ended up in the project were not the ones I expected. The only way I could see to do it was to use your other approach and manually drop the files into the project.

Dean

[Riyad Kalla]

Dean,
Can you navigate back to the project capabilities > struts pages, tell me which Struts tab you changed, what the files are (libs and resources) and then eactly what you filled out when adding struts caps to the toy project? I want to try and reproduce this *exactly* as you tried it here locally.

[fermataintl]

My first attempt was to find the directory where myeclipse stores the struts 1.2 jars and tlds. I found that and renamed it and created my own clone of it with jars and tlds I downloaded from the struts site (1.2.4). I then created a new project and added the struts 1.2 capabilities. Upon inspection, it failed. I inspected it like this: in [my]eclipse, open the struts.jar => org.apache.struts.action => Action.class. Look for the saveErrors method. The signature should be saveErrors(HttpServletRequest, ActionMessages), but instead it shows up as saveErrors(HttpServletRequest, ActionErrors).

My second attempt was to go through the interface, as you suggested. I stored the 1.2.4 files on my C: drive and then removed each jar and tld for 1.2 (in the interface) and added those entries from what I stored on disk. I then went through the same steps as listed above and noticed that the saveErrors signature was still incorrect.

So then I just took the files and dropped them directly into the project and then went through the “Add Jar” process to get the jars to be properly recognized. I then inspected as before and the signature was as expected. I hope that helps.

On a side note and with nothing against you guys, I think the struts development team should put version numbers on the jar file names themselves. Its a pain to try to determine what you have at any given point in time.

Thanks again.
Dean

[fermataintl]

On a related note, since I manually added struts capabilities to my project, myeclipse does not want to use the struts editor on struts-config.xml. How can I tell myeclipse that this is a struts project, after the fact?

Thanks.
Dean

[Riyad Kalla]

Dean thank you for the steps, I’ll look into it ASAP. Also you need to add Struts capabilities to your project to use the Struts tooling.

[fermataintl]

Is there a way to add the struts capabilities without actually adding the jars and tlds?

[Riyad Kalla]

Is there a way to add the struts capabilities without actually adding the jars and tlds?

When the “add struts caps” dialog comes up, just uncheck the two checkboxes at the bottom.

[Ronaldvdh]

This sounds like the same problem i have. The jar files added are 1.1. jars and not the 1.2.x jars you expect. see: http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2+file-viewtopic-t-5753.html for my problems. Thats why you see the actionErrors reference and not the ActionMessages

[sefkan3]

I found the same problem as Ronaldvdh.

myeclipse 3.8.3 version on eclipse 3.01 was using struts 1.1 files instead of 1.2 (even when you asked to use 1.2) when adding struts capabilities. When you try to use struts automatic validation in your project, it will not work and you will get an error message about some method not found (due to ActionErrors vs ActionMessages parameter mismatch)

When I upgraded to 3.8.4 the problem went away. The new version adds the 1.2.4 struts files correctly.

Just an FYI for other users since I wasted quite a lot of time trying to debug this problem myself. If you run into the same problem, just upgrade to the latest patch. 3.8.4+Q2 🙂

Saif Kantrikar

[wilkerd1]

I am having the same exact problem as everyone else. I tried upgrading to 3.8.4 Q2 and it did not solve the problem. Any other suggested workarounds? Is a fix available for this?

Thanks!
Daniel

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