spliting struts-config.xml error

[Bruno Frascino]

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to separate my struts-config.xml in more files, but I got an error:

19:32:54,546 ERROR [ActionServlet] Parsing error processing resource path /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml,
/WEB-INF/struts-estatistica.xml
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initApplicationConfig(ActionServlet.java:857)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:455)

Here is my web.xml code where I define my other .xml(struts-estatistica.xml):

 
<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,
/WEB-INF/struts-estatistica.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>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>   

Here is my struts-estatistica.xml:

 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
 
<!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>
 
<form-beans>
 
<form-bean name="estatisticaAtendimentoForm" type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm">
<form-property name="idEstatisticaAtendimento" type ="java.lang.String" />
<form-property name="descricaoEstatisticaAtendimento" type ="java.lang.String" />
</form-bean>
 
</form-beans>
 

<action-mappings>
 
<action name="estatisticaAtendimentoForm" path="/cadastramento/ListarEstatisticas" 
type="br.com.japinfo.saude.jsaude.administracao.cadastro.action" scope="request" validate="false">
<forward name="listar" path="/administrativo/estatisticas/listar_estatisticas.jsp" />
<forward name="erro" path="/administrativo/erro.jsp" />
</action>
 
</action-mappings>
 
</struts-config>

Anybody can help me?! What Am I forgetting to do?
Does have anything to be done at the original struts-config.xml??

Thanks in advance!

[Merrill Higginson]

You cannot define two different configuration files for a single module. If you want to define more than one configuration file, you must also define more than one module. My suggestion would be to define a separate module named "estatistica". The entries in your web.xml file would look like this:

    <init-param>
      <param-name>config</param-name>
      <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <!-- module configurations -->
    <init-param>
      <param-name>config/estatistica</param-name>
      <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-estatistica.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>

Then, if you wanted to call an action defined in struts-estatistica.xml, you would have to prepend "/estatistica" to the action call, for example:

www.myserver.com/myApp/estatistica/cadastramento/ListarEstatisticas.do

[Bruno Frascino]

Thanks Merrill,

Now it is working... but I'm confused, cause I've got an example of web.xml like this:

    
<init-param>
            <param-name>config</param-name>
            <param-value>
                /WEB-INF/struts-global.xml,
                /WEB-INF/agenda/actions.xml
            </param-value>
        </init-param>

and it's working properly... but when I tried to do it, I failed.
That's ok, for now, most important thing is make this application work, but when get spare time I'll check this issue again.

Thanks mate!!

[Merrill Higginson]

I stand corrected. Upon reviewing the documentation, it is supposed to be possible to specify more than one config file for a single module.

I don't know why it's not working in your particulat case, though.