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Hello all,

I'm new to Spring and i'm trying to implement a SimpleFormController and a form with the spring-form tag library. I have a DAO bean and an command object with the fields of the form. I also extended the SimpleFormController:

And the jsp formView

I have defined this form controller in the dispatcher-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd">
    
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping"/>
    
    
    <bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
        <property name="mappings">
            <props>
                <prop key="index.htm">indexController</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="viewResolver"
          class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
          p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/"
          p:suffix=".jsp" />
    
    
    <bean name="indexController"
          class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController"
          p:viewName="index" />

When i try this form i get the following message from the glassfish server:

HTTP Status 404 -

type Status report

message

descriptionThe requested resource () is not available.

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1

And if i look at the generated form HTML code i see:

Why is it refering to "/logintest/WEB-INF/jsp/testForm.jsp" and not to "/logintest/testform.htm" (the mapping of the controller)? is it something i missed in the documentation or something i should know about spring? The only reference to this issue i found using google is refering to Spring 2.0 and not giving a cause or solution. I am using Spring 2.5 (the one supplied with netbeans 6.7.1).

Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Gert Jan Kruizinga

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Of course i can set the "action" property of the <form:form> tag to the right URL but shouldn't the formController or the tag library do that for me?

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If i literally copy the Spring SimpleFromController example from vaannila.com (http://www.vaannila.com/spring/spring-simple-form-controller-1.html) i experience the same problem, the action from the form points to the view jsp and not to the form controller.

(html send to browser)
<form id="user" method="POST" action="/formtest/WEB-INF/jsp/userForm.jsp">

which results in a 404 message in the browser. Am i the only one experiencing this problem? then there should be something wrong with my configuration. Who can help me find out what i do wrong? i assume that the people from vaannila have tested there examples before publishing.

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hi Gert-Jan,

works fine if you change your config a little: see below
Hope this works for you!

Herman

<bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
        <property name="mappings">
            <props>
                <prop key="/index.htm">indexController</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="viewResolver"
          class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
          p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/"
          p:suffix=".jsp" />

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Herman,

Thank you for your support but it is not working, the action tag in the form is still pointing to de "WEB-INF/jsp/testForm.jsp" in stead of the current page. I have googled a litle further on this issue ad therefor i want to ask you on which IDE and application server you tried it? it seems that this issue appears om the glassfish server which came with Netbeans 6.7.1, i found at least 2 others with the same issue and who are using the same IDE.

What i see is when i request for "http://localhost:8080/logintest/index.htm" that the form generated has the following request properties:
JSP Request Method: GET Request URI: /logintest/WEB-INF/jsp/testForm.jsp Request Protocol: HTTP/1.1 Servlet path: /WEB-INF/jsp/testForm.jsp Path info: null Query string: null Content length: -1 Content type: null Server name: localhost Server port: 8080 Remote user: null Remote address: 127.0.0.1 Remote host: 127.0.0.1 Authorization scheme: null Locale: nl_NL

And as you can see in the source of the form:form tag the action attribute is extracted from the requestURI parameter. So assuming that glassfish is the reference implementation and the guys at spring are no idiots i assume that i must do something wrong, or is this a bug/feature?

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hi,

I used Netbeans 6.8 as IDE, it comes with GlassFish v3 Domain and Tomcat 6.0.20. Both servers have to result here.

with the configuration that I used, the form tag looks like <form id="editRelatie" method="post" action="/WebApplication1/index.htm">
(you probably have a different context root)

Did you find anything in your logfiles or console?

Herman

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I have the same problem with my source code.
When I click to the submit button in form view, it will submit to the formview itself, not the controller as I expected.
Here is my dispatcher-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd">
    
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping"/>
    
    
    <bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
        <property name="mappings">
            <props>
                <prop key="index.htm">indexController</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
        <property name="urlMap">
            <map>
                <entry key="/entername.htm">
                    <ref bean="enterName"/>
                </entry>
            </map>

</property>
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="viewResolver"
          class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
          p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/"
          p:suffix=".jsp" />
    
    
    <bean name="indexController"
          class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController"
          p:viewName="index" />
    <bean name="enterName" class="Controller.enterNameController">
        <property name="sessionForm"><value>true</value></property>
        <property name="commandClass" value="model.User"/>
       <property name="formView" value="enterName"/>
        <property name="successView" value="sayhello"/>

</bean>
</beans>

and here is enterNameController.java

and here is the formview

when this jsp file rendered to HTML, it looks like

when i really want the action will be /spring_sayhello/enterName.htm ( the controller)

I use Netbeans 6.5.1 with Spring 2.5

What should I do

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