Thanks for the quick response. Sigh, alas I'd also already tried that. But to be safe I tried again - only change in struts.xml:
<package name="default" extends="struts-default">
same result
But please keep trying.
Curiously, I get tomcat log lines:
INFO: Unable to locate configuration files of the name struts-plugin.xml, skipping
Feb 25, 2010 8:58:33 PM com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.logging.commons.CommonsLogger info
INFO: Parsing configuration file [struts-plugin.xml]
Feb 25, 2010 8:58:33 PM com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.logging.commons.CommonsLogger info
INFO: Unable to locate configuration files of the name struts.xml, skipping
Feb 25, 2010 8:58:33 PM com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.logging.commons.CommonsLogger info
INFO: Parsing configuration file [struts.xml]
not sure what they mean, if anything. Interestingly, I have no struts-plugin.xml file, but do have a struts.xml
One small amount of good news: I found that I could turn off form formatting with theme="simple" in the FORM field. Hey, at this point I'll take any success i can get.
Sigh,
Bruce