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    Russ
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    I am learning while I am developing a Struts application. What I have tried to accomplish is to use the templates within the tiles tag library. It is a very simple design–title, header, menu, body, footer scenario.

    However, I continue to get a NPE when I go to the home jsp.

    I am using JDK 1.5, JBoss4.0.3SP1, and MyEclipse 4.1.1.

    This is my template for the home page:

    
    
    <%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
    
    <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
    <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
    <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
    <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
    
    
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
    
    <html:html locale="true">
      <head>
        <title><tiles:insert attribute="title" flush="true"/></title>
        <html:base />   
      </head>
      <body> 
          <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="5">
             <TR> 
                <TD colspan="2"><tiles:insert attribute="header" flush="true"/></TD>
             </TR>
             <TR>
                <TD width="140" valign="top"><tiles:insert attribute="menu" flush="true"/></TD> 
                <TD valign="top" align="left"><tiles:insert attribute="body" flush="true"/></TD> 
             </TR>
             <TR> 
                <TD colspan="2"><tiles:insert attribute="footer" flush="true"/></TD>
             </TR>
          </table>
      </body>
    </html:html>
    

    This is my struts-config.xml

    
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN" "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">
    
    <struts-config>
      <data-sources />
      <form-beans >
        <form-bean name="inputForm" type="com.russ.db.test.struts.form.InputForm" />
      </form-beans>
    
      <global-exceptions />
      <global-forwards>  
           <forward name="dbTestHomePage" path="base.page" />
      </global-forwards>
      
      
      <action-mappings >
        <action
          attribute="inputForm"
          input="/DBTestInput.jsp"
          name="inputForm"
          path="/input"
          scope="request"
          type="com.russ.db.test.struts.action.InputAction">
          <forward name="success" path="/DBTestResults.jsp" />
          <forward name="failure" path="/DBTestResults.jsp" />
        </action>
      </action-mappings>
    
      <controller bufferSize="4096" debug="0"/>
      
      <message-resources parameter="com.russ.db.test.struts.ApplicationResources" />
      
       <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
            <set-property property="pathnames" value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,
                                                      /WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
       </plug-in>
       <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin">
           <set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml"/>
           <set-property property="definitions-debug" value="0"/>
           <set-property property="definitions-parser-details" value="0"/>
           <set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true"/>
       </plug-in>
    </struts-config>
    

    This is my tiles-def.xml file:

    
    <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC 
              "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN" 
              "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config_1_1.dtd">
              
      <tiles-definitions> 
          <!--  Blank definition
             <definition name="${name}" path="${path}">
                <put name="${name}" value="${value}" />
             </definition>     
            -->
            <definition name="base.page" path="/DBTestHome.jsp"> 
                <put name="title" value="Test DB Store Procedure Home"/>
                <put name="header" value="/DBTestHeader.jsp"/> 
                <put name="menu" value="/DBTestSidebar.jsp" />  
                <put name="body" value="/DBTestInput.jsp"/>     
                <put name="footer" value="/DBTestFooter.jsp"/>        
            </definition>        
      </tiles-definitions>
    

    This is my web.xml file:

    
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    
    <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
             version="2.4" 
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
    
       <servlet>
        <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>config</param-name>
          <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>debug</param-name>
          <param-value>3</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>detail</param-name>
          <param-value>3</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
      </servlet>
      <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
      </servlet-mapping>
      <welcome-file-list>
          <welcome-file>/DBTestHome.jsp</welcome-file>
      </welcome-file-list>
    </web-app>
    

    This is the error code I am getting:

    
    [18:28:28,875] [INFO ] [PropertyMessageResources] Initializing, config='org.apache.struts.taglib.html.LocalStrings', returnNull=true
    [18:28:28,890] [INFO ] [PropertyMessageResources] Initializing, config='org.apache.struts.util.LocalStrings', returnNull=true
    [18:28:28,906] [ERROR] [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
    java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.processAttribute(InsertTag.java:689)
        at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.createTagHandler(InsertTag.java:489)
        at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doStartTag(InsertTag.java:451)
        at org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_insert_0(org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp:162)
        at org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp._jspx_meth_html_html_0(org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp:107)
        at org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp:76)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:322)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve.invoke(CustomPrincipalValve.java:39)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:159)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:59)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:112)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
    
    

    Any help at this moment would be greatly appreciated as all I am trying to do is get the app up and running.

    As always, thanks for taking the time to read my post.

    Russ

    #250572

    Russ
    Member

    One of my problems was I was trying to put a page as a title, so I changed it:

    
    <title><tiles:getAsString name="title"/></title>
    

    Now I am getting a different error:

    
    [21:23:49,421] [ERROR] [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
    javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Error - tag.getAsString : component context is not defined. Check tag syntax
        at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.GetAttributeTag.doEndTag(GetAttributeTag.java:198)
        at org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_getAsString_0(org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp:166)
        at org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp._jspx_meth_html_html_0(org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp:109)
        at org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.DBTestHome_jsp:78)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:322)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve.invoke(CustomPrincipalValve.java:39)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:159)
        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:59)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:112)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
    
    

    Thanks in advance for any assistance.

    Russ

    #250574

    Riyad Kalla
    Member

    Russ I’d suggest going line by line through another Tiles tutorial for starters. Get something that works, then go from there.

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