Combining two different struts modules of a big application

[Dishpal Bhaluja]

Scenario:
Developer1 creates a struts based dynamic web application
Developer2 creates another struts based dynamic web application
Environment: Struts 1.3.10 and IDE:Eclipse

How can we combine these two into One big application,each having separate Configuration files

Any complete tutorials regarding this aspect?Please

[Sagar Rohankar]

You have to configure and build a new module for second (or first, whatever you wnat to integrate) we app, To make a struts module, Have look at this and this.

HTH

[Dishpal Bhaluja]

Environment:Netbeans 6.5 Struts Web Project

I created a module named Basics and put it under my WebPages Folder
It has two files index2.jsp and myNewIndex.jsp

Index2.jsp has one form which gets submitted and action class forwards it to myNewIndex.jsp
But on running index2.jsp its showing :Cannot retrieve mapping for action /mynewAction error.

And my GlassFish server is showing the error:Missing configuration file for struts-config-moduleBasics.xml

I guess the problem is that server is loading only struts-config.xml and not the other xml and checking the action mappings in that xml file.


My configuration file:struts-config-moduleBasics.xml

<struts-config>
    <form-beans>
        <form-bean name="CatchesBean" type="bean.CatchesBean"/>
    </form-beans>

    <action-mappings>
        
 <action input="/Basics/index2.jsp" name="CatchesBean" path="/mynewAction" scope="session" type="action.MyNewAction" validate="false">
            <forward name="toset" path="/Basics/mynewIndex.jsp"/>
      </action>

</action-mappings>
</struts-config>


    

My WEB.XML is

 
  <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>config/Basics</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/Basics/struts-config-moduleBasics.xml</param-value>
           </init-param>
 <init-param>
            <param-name>debug</param-name>
            <param-value>2</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>detail</param-name>
            <param-value>2</param-value>
        </init-param>
        
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
      
 </servlet>   

My index2.jsp is:

 
          <html:form  action="/mynewAction">
        Username<html:text property="username"/>
        <html:submit/>
       </html:form>
 

[Sagar Rohankar]

 
  <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>config/Basics</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/Basics/struts-config-moduleBasics.xml</param-value>
           </init-param>
 <init-param>
            <param-name>debug</param-name>
            <param-value>2</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>detail</param-name>
            <param-value>2</param-value>
        </init-param>
        
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
      
 </servlet>   

Have you checked the path for your "config/Basics" struts configuration file, whether this path is correct or not ?
"/WEB-INF/Basics/struts-config-moduleBasics.xml"

If yes, then checked whether that .xml is valid and well formed or not

Once you're able to configure it, you have to modify action like this

<html:form  action="moduleBasics/mynewAction">
        Username<html:text property="username"/>
        <html:submit/>
</html:form>

OR use switch Action

    
 ...
    <action-mappings>
    <action path="/toModule"
    type="org.apache.struts.actions.SwitchAction"/>
    ...
    </action-mappings>
    ...

and the resulted URI
http://localhost:8080/toModule.do?prefix=/moduleB&page=/index.do

[Dishpal Bhaluja]

I tried all things as you said:
Checked paths,Validated XML's everything correct.

My Form tag: -->moduleBasics is the name in struts-config-moduleBasics.xml where as i define it like config/Basics in my web.xml ,Anyway I tried changing that too,But in vain

<html:form  action="moduleBasics/mynewAction">

Still getting the error like:

Tiles definition factory loaded for module ''.
Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml'
Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validation.xml'
StandardWrapperValve[jsp]: PWC1406: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot retrieve mapping for action /moduleBasics/mynewAction
        at org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag.lookup(FormTag.java:759)
        at org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag.doStartTag(FormTag.java:443)
        at org.apache.jsp.Basics.index2_jsp._jspx_meth_html_form_0(index2_jsp.java:106)
        ....................................................................................................................