bean:message tag not working

[Conie Ooi]

Hi, I'm running struts on VAJ4.0. I'm having one problem which whenever I'm using <bean:message> in the jsp, the page cannot the loaded, but it works fine after I removed the tag. Do you have any idea in solving this problem?
Thanks

[sbezawada]

Make sure you have the "ApplicationResources.properties" file in the WEB-INF directory of your web application.
If you don't have one you can copy a model file from "struts-example.war".
If you have the file in correct directory,make sure it is referenced properly in struts-config.xml.

[Matthew Phillips]

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[Roger Graff]

Be sure to import the bean tag-library in your JSP.

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %>

[Tim Holloway]

The actual location of the ApplicationResource.properties file is in your webapp's classpath - under WEB-INF/classes if it's a freestanding file or in a jar file in WEB-INF/lib.
The complete pathname (freestanding file version) is synthesized from:

<webapp-location>/WEB-INF/classes/<path-to-app-resources>

where <path-to-app-resources> is taken from the web.xml file underneath the <servlet> stanza for the ActionServlet:

    <init-param>
      <param-name>application</param-name>
      <param-value>com.mousetech.strutsdemo.ApplicationResources</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>

To see everything in its proper context, look at the sample at http://localhost/strutsdemo/src/web.xml
Just for the sake of completeness, BTW, the sample Application Resources file is /tomcat3/webapps/strutsdemo/WEB-INF/classes/com/mousetech/strutsdemo/ApplicationResources.properties
Or, for Windows fans:
C:\tomcat3\webapps\strutsdemo\WEB-INF\classes\com\mousetech\strutsdemo\ApplicationResources.properties
And, as always, upper/lower case in the filenames is critical (Even though Windows doesn't think so, Java does).
[ August 02, 2002: Message edited by: Tim Holloway ]