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Tutorial: Creating Struts application in Eclipse

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In this tutorial we will create a hello world Struts application in Eclipse editor. First let us see what are the tools required to create our hello world Struts application.

  1. JDK 1.5 above (download)
  2. Tomcat 5.x above or any other container (Glassfish, JBoss, Websphere, Weblogic etc) (download)
  3. Eclipse 3.2.x above (download)
  4. Apache Struts JAR files:(download). Following are the list of JAR files required for this application.
    • struts.jar
    • common-logging.jar
    • common-beanutils.jar
    • common-collections.jar
    • common-digester.jar

We will implement a web application using Struts framework which will have a login screen. Once the user is authenticated, (s)he will be redirected to a welcome page.

Let us start with our first struts based web application.

Open Eclipse and goto File -> New -> Project and select Dynamic Web Project in the New Project wizard screen.

After selecting Dynamic Web Project, press Next.

Write the name of the project. For example StrutsHelloWorld. Once this is done, select the target runtime environment (e.g. Apache Tomcat v6.0). This is to run the project inside Eclipse environment. After this press Finish.

Once the project is created, you can see its structure in Project Explorer.

Now copy all the required JAR files in WebContent -> WEB-INF -> lib folder. Create this folder if it does not exists.

Next step is to create a servlet entry in web.xml which points to org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet class of struts framework. Open web.xml file which is there under WEB-INF folder and copy paste following code.

<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>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
	<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
	<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Here we have mapped url *.do with the ActionServlet, hence all the requests from *.do url will be routed to ActionServlet; which will handle the flow of Struts after that.

We will create package strutcures for your project source. Here we will create two packages, one for Action classes (net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action) and other for Form  beans(net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action).

Also create a class LoginForm in net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action with following content.

package net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.form;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessage;

public class LoginForm extends ActionForm {

	private String userName;
	private String password;

	public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping,
			HttpServletRequest request) {

		ActionErrors actionErrors = new ActionErrors();

		if(userName == null || userName.trim().equals("")) {
			actionErrors.add("userName", new ActionMessage("error.username"));
		}
		try {
		if(password == null || password.trim().equals("")) {
			actionErrors.add("password", new ActionMessage("error.password"));
		}
		}catch(Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return actionErrors ;
	}

	public String getUserName() {
		return userName;
	}
	public void setUserName(String userName) {
		this.userName = userName;
	}
	public String getPassword() {
		return password;
	}
	public void setPassword(String password) {
		this.password = password;
	}
}

LoginForm is a bean class which extends ActionForm class of struts framework. This class will have the string properties like userName and password and their getter and setter methods. This class will act as a bean and will help in carrying values too and fro from JSP to Action class.
Let us create an Action class that will handle the request and will process the authentication. Create a class named LoginAction in net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action package. Copy paste following code in LoginAction class.

package net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.form.LoginForm;

import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;

public class LoginAction extends Action {

	public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
			HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
			throws Exception {

		String target = null;
		LoginForm loginForm = (LoginForm)form; 

		if(loginForm.getUserName().equals("admin")
				&& loginForm.getPassword().equals("admin123")) {
			target = "success";
			request.setAttribute("message", loginForm.getPassword());
		}
		else {
			target = "failure";
		}

		return mapping.findForward(target);
	}
}

In action class, we have a method called execute() which will be called by struts framework when this action will gets called. The parameter passed to this method are ActionMapping, ActionForm, HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse. In execute() method we check if username equals admin and password is equal to admin123, user will be redirected to Welcome page. If username and password are not proper, then user will be redirected to login page again.

We will use the internationalization (i18n) support of struts to display text on our pages. Hence we will create a MessagesResources properties file which will contain all our text data. Create a folder resource under src (Right click on src and select New -> Source Folder). Now create a text file called MessageResource.properties under resources folder.

Copy the following content in your Upadate:struts-config.xml MessageResource.properties file.

label.username = Login Detail
label.password = Password
label.welcome = Welcome

error.username =Username is not entered.

Create two JSP files, index.jsp and welcome.jsp with the following content in your WebContent folder.

index.jsp

<%@taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html" prefix="html"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>

<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
		<title>Login page | Hello World Struts application in Eclipse</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<h1>Login</h1>
	<html:form action="login">
		 <bean:message key="label.username" />
		 <html:text property="userName"></html:text>
		 <html:errors property="userName" />
		 <br/>
		 <bean:message key="label.password"/>
		<html:password property="password"></html:password>
		 <html:errors property="password"/>
		<html:submit/>
		<html:reset/>
	</html:form>
	</body>
</html>

welcome.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
		<title>Welcome page | Hello World Struts application in Eclipse</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<%
		String message = (String)request.getAttribute("message");
	%>
		<h1>Welcome <%= message %></h1>

	</body>
</html>

Now create a file called struts-config.xml in WEB-INF folder. Also note that in web.xml file we have passed an argument with name config to ActionServlet class with value /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml.

Following will be the content of struts-config.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
          "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.2//EN"
          "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd">

<struts-config>
	<form-beans>
		<form-bean name="LoginForm"
			type="net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.form.LoginForm" />
	</form-beans>

	<global-exceptions>
	</global-exceptions>
	<global-forwards></global-forwards>

	<action-mappings>
		<action path="/login" name="LoginForm" validate="true" input="/index.jsp"
			type="net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action.LoginAction">
			<forward name="success" path="/welcome.jsp" />
			<forward name="failure" path="/index.jsp" />
		</action>
	</action-mappings>

	<message-resources parameter="resource.MessageResource"></message-resources>

</struts-config>


And, that’s it :) .. We are done with our application and now its turn to run it. I hope you have already configured Tomcat in eclipse. If not then:

Open Server view from Windows -> Show View -> Server. Right click in this view and select New -> Server and add your server details.
To run the project, right click on Project name from Project Explorer and select Run as -> Run on Server (Shortcut: Alt+Shift+X, R)

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238 Comments

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  • Shruti wrote on 10 June, 2010, 15:26

    Hey!!

    Thanks for the simple struts application …It was very useful …
    It is working fine:)

    Reply
  • gaurav wrote on 15 June, 2010, 12:40

    hi dude! the article is really great for a beginner………..
    i m having the following error

    Missing message for key “label.username”
    org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.MessageTag.doStartTag(MessageTag.java:233)
    org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_bean_005fmessage_005f0(index_jsp.java:175)
    org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_html_005fform_005f0(index_jsp.java:118)
    org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:86)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

    can u please help me to sort out this problem…………………..

    Reply
  • Rajasekhara Naidu K wrote on 19 June, 2010, 8:19

    hii,
    Thank you very much it’s very useful to beginners…..

    Reply
  • john wrote on 2 July, 2010, 5:11

    thanks for your article
    but i thing shine Enterprise pattern in easyer than struts and more flexible and faster too.
    refer:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/shine-enterpris/files/

    Reply
  • Suchita wrote on 13 July, 2010, 10:23

    Hey i m getting following error while deploying my application.
    SEVERE: Servlet /TEST threw load() exception
    javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1127)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:981)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4058)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4364)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
    Jul 10, 2010 11:55:43 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
    INFO: Marking servlet jsp as unavailable

    The jar files are there in lib dir and also the path is correct.

    Reply
  • Lingu wrote on 18 July, 2010, 9:04

    Hi Viral,

    Thanks..Nice tutorial for Beginners!!!
    After running the application.In the login page, I submit the page after entering the details.
    No action is taking place after submit.
    Please help me to solve.

    Thanks!
    Lingu

    Reply
  • Raghu wrote on 23 July, 2010, 15:29

    For the error Missing message for key “label.username” just give in struts config.xml instead of MessageResource.properties

    Reply
  • ratman wrote on 16 August, 2010, 19:27

    that prob with “Missing message for key “label.username” ” .. there could be problem with Eclipse which doesn’t see folder resources … try to get file MessageResources.properties into some folder (package) INSIDE “src” folder. don’t forget to change the destination in the struts-config.xml. it worked for me.

    Reply
    • Kotteeswaran wrote on 9 March, 2011, 11:24

      Many thanks for ur comments… i got stuck for two day but now i got worked..
      Thanks a lot….

      Reply
    • batty wrote on 6 June, 2011, 11:51

      Thank u very much ………it solved my problem…I Fought 3 days on this issue….Thanks again

      Reply
  • harsha wrote on 26 August, 2010, 13:52

    Aug 26, 2010 2:20:55 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
    INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Genuitec\Common\binary\com.sun.java.jdk.win32.x86_1.6.0.013\bin;C:\Program Files\Genuitec\Common\plugins
    ..
    javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Missing message for key “label.username”
    at org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.MessageTag.doStartTag(MessageTag.java:297)

    Reply
  • stalinred wrote on 20 September, 2010, 2:44

    hello thanks a lot for the tutorial

    for me evety thin was nicely done but when i have run the application i got an error htttp 404
    that told me the ressource HelloWordStruts is not available.

    thanks in advance

    Reply
  • stalinred wrote on 20 September, 2010, 2:53

    problem was solved

    but i han an error HTTP 500 (internal error )

    can any one give me a clue

    Reply
  • Vinnie wrote on 28 September, 2010, 2:29

    For those getting the Module ‘null’ not found exception. This is all you have to do.
    Make sure the following jars are in the WEB-INF/lib directory.
    commons-beanutils.jar
    commons-chain.jar – this is the key jar file most people didn’t probably add
    commons-digester.jar
    commons-fileupload.jar
    commons-io.jar
    commons-logging.jar
    jstl.jar
    struts-core.jar
    struts-taglib.jar

    Reply
  • stalinred wrote on 10 October, 2010, 0:53

    hello again
    i starting to get some skills in struts and i want to say some words:
    you forgoet to define error.password to Message.resource.properties.

    and also i want to say that those messages doesn’t appear only if we remove validate=true from <action path /"login" in the Struts-config.xml file

    thanks in advance

    Reply
  • JP wrote on 22 October, 2010, 12:19

    thank a lot. its working.
    bt am gettin error msg “ActionMessage cannote be casted to ActionError” while leave any 1 of the field blank.
    cany any1 help to find out this?

    Reply
  • iulian wrote on 9 November, 2010, 15:35

    So who solve the the problem with
    this work if i put file in build classes

    Reply
  • Akhilesh Balakrishnan wrote on 11 November, 2010, 17:11

    1) The above code will work only if you change index.jsp taglib’s to

    2) Crete a folder “tlds” under WEB-INF and put the files
    struts-bean.tld and struts-html.tld. You can google to get the files!

    Reply
  • jitendra wrote on 12 November, 2010, 13:33

    hiiiiiiii viral its shows so many errors because og MassegeResource.properties

    Reply
  • JEYA PRAKASH wrote on 29 November, 2010, 14:49

    I GOT ERROR AS “CAN NOT FIND TAG LIBRARY DESCRIPTOR FOR http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html“…help me.,and i can’t run the application
    the following error
    org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:51)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:409)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:116)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.generateTLDLocation(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:317)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:148)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:435)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:504)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1568)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:132)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:212)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:101)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:156)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:296)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:277)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:265)
    org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:564)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:302)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)

    Reply
  • Rajendra Jogas wrote on 15 December, 2010, 23:58

    First of all thank u so much viral as u provided such great tutorial ,It is really useful when someone start struts from beginning

    Reply
  • Sujit wrote on 23 December, 2010, 17:43

    It is working fine but in the index page
    ???en_GB.username??? then text box
    ???en_GB.password??? then password box is coming.

    it is not retriving label.username and label.password value in the index page.

    my code is given below

    —————
    package net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.form;

    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
    import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
    import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
    import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
    import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessage;

    public class LoginForm extends ActionForm {
    private String userName;
    private String password;
    public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) {
    ActionErrors actionErrors = new ActionErrors();
    if(userName == null || userName.trim().equals(“”))
    {
    actionErrors.add(“userName”, new ActionMessage(“error.username”));
    }
    try {
    if(password == null || password.trim().equals(“”)) {
    actionErrors.add(“password”, new ActionMessage(“error.password”));
    }
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
    e.printStackTrace();
    } return actionErrors ;
    } public String getuserName()
    { return userName;
    }
    public String getUserName() {
    return userName;
    }
    public void setuserName(String userName) {
    this.userName = userName;
    }
    public String getPassword() {
    return password;
    }
    public void setPassword(String password) {
    this.password = password;
    }

    }

    —————
    package net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action;

    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
    import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
    import net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.form.LoginForm;
    import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
    import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
    import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
    import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
    public class LoginAction extends Action {
    public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws Exception {
    String target = null;
    LoginForm loginForm = (LoginForm)form;
    if(loginForm.getUserName().equals(“admin”) && loginForm.getPassword().equals(“admin123″))
    {
    target = “success”;
    request.setAttribute(“message”, loginForm.getUserName());
    }
    else
    {
    target = “failure”;
    }
    return mapping.findForward(target);
    }

    }
    —————
    properties file
    label.username = Login Detail
    label.password = Password
    label.welcome = Welcome
    error.username =Username is not entered.

    —————
    index.jsp

    Login page | Hello World Struts application in Eclipse

    Login

    —————–
    welcome.jsp

    Welcome page | Hello World Struts application in Eclipse

    Welcome

    ———-

    i have included properiies file into web-inf/classes folder

    Can you please help out how to get properties value into index.jsp page

    Thanks in advance

    Reply
  • Sujit wrote on 23 December, 2010, 17:46

    missing index nad welcome jsp files here its given below

    index.jsp

    Login page | Hello World Struts application in Eclipse

    Login

    ———————–

    welcome.jsp

    Welcome page | Hello World Struts application in Eclipse

    Welcome

    Reply
  • Anisio wrote on 28 December, 2010, 1:38

    IF YOU HAVE ERROR 500 >> JUST PUT ALL STRUTS JARS IN LIB

    IF YOU HAVE ERROR 500 Missing message for key “label.username” >> CHANGE this
    to

    Reply
  • partha saradhi wrote on 29 December, 2010, 21:12

    thanks viral thanks for your valuable information
    i am unable to paste th content s into web.xml and struts.xml
    i am doing save as option by copying it into another file
    tell me

    Reply
  • partha saradhi wrote on 29 December, 2010, 21:30

    ——————————————————————————–
    i executed login page application i got an error like this
    type Status report

    message /StrutsHelloWorld/

    description The requested resource (/StrutsHelloWorld/) is not available.

    Reply
  • Ana wrote on 14 January, 2011, 5:45

    Thanks everybody for your help!

    Reply
  • Arul m wrote on 17 January, 2011, 22:42

    I’ve tried the above mentioned tutorial but I’m unable to execute it.
    I’m using Struts 1.3, Eclipse 3.5.2, Tomcat 6.0, MySQL database. I got two issues those are mentioned below.

    1) In index.jsp code page,
    — Error message is “Can not find the tag library descriptor for “http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html”

    2) When I try to execute the code, I got the error message “Several ports (8080, 8009) required by Tomcat v6.0 Server at localhost are already in use. The server may already be running in another process, or a system process may be using the port. To start this server you will need to stop the other process or change the port number(s).”

    Please help me.

    I’m totally beginner for this.
    I don’t know how to resolve these issues.

    Thanks in advance.

    Reply
  • B.Srikanth Reddy wrote on 18 January, 2011, 17:13

    It is good for the beginners…..
    Than you for Virapatel

    Reply
  • Srivathsan wrote on 19 January, 2011, 8:54

    Very effective and useful

    Reply
  • Dhivakar wrote on 29 January, 2011, 13:32

    Hi…
    I am getting http://status 404.I think some resource is not there.can you tell the reason?

    Reply
  • ran wrote on 11 February, 2011, 15:22

    hi..
    initially i got errors in eclipse saying “Can not find the tag library descriptor for “http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-bean”"

    there after i read the post and solved by entering correct tags which are
    http://struts.apache.org/tags-html
    http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean

    type Exception report
    message
    description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
    exception
    org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /index.jsp at line 14
    Stacktrace:
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:515)
    root cause
    java.lang.NullPointerException: Module ‘null’ not found.
    org.apache.struts.taglib.TagUtils.getModuleConfig(TagUtils.java:755)

    Reply
  • ram wrote on 14 February, 2011, 14:56

    hi.
    it is very nice ….
    thanks for the all the above posts….

    Reply
  • Abhinav wrote on 26 February, 2011, 23:56

    Hi I am getting the folowing error i have followed the toturial

    org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find message resources under key org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:500)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:410)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

    root cause

    javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find message resources under key org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:865)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:794)
    org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:102)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:386)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

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  • Nidhi wrote on 8 March, 2011, 1:30

    Thanks Viral… This is Really Helpful

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  • ria wrote on 9 March, 2011, 9:50

    I am getting this error

    org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /index.jsp at line 11
    8:
    9: Login
    14:

    Stacktrace:
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:505)
    root cause

    javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Missing message for key “label.username”
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:850)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
    root cause
    javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Missing message for key “label.username”
    org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.MessageTag.doStartTag(MessageTag.java:233)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
    note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.16 logs.
    ——————————————————————————–
    I tried all the above suggestions but they did not work.
    Please help.

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    • Viral Patel wrote on 9 March, 2011, 12:14

      @Ria – Have you created the folder resource as a resource folder in your source? This is very important as if you not make the resource folder as resource, at compile time eclipse will not put it into classpath. Also check by generating WAR file if the MessageResouce.properties files in under WEB-INF/classes.

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      • ria wrote on 11 March, 2011, 14:31

        thanks for your suggestion

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    • pruthvi wrote on 6 April, 2011, 13:23

      @ria just change this code in index.jsp

      Login page | Hello World Struts application in Eclipse

      Login

      UserName

      Password

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  • Source Code Guy wrote on 11 March, 2011, 9:16

    Nice step by step tutorial. You configure this to Tomcat how about Jboss. I don’t have much experience with Jboss.

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  • nanthagopal wrote on 12 March, 2011, 9:27

    it shows error create Action class

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  • rani wrote on 12 March, 2011, 15:09

    how to connect MySql here for database application?

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  • swetha wrote on 23 March, 2011, 6:01

    Thanks Viral. It works perfectly if you follow the instructions exactly as they are. There’s just one mistake. In the screen shot for placing the “MesseageResource.properties”, it looks like the folder “resource” is outside the “src” folder, whereas is should be inside.

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  • Shehnaz Yasmin wrote on 25 March, 2011, 19:43

    Nice tutorial. But i m getting the following error in the jsp pages:
    Can not find the tag library descriptor for “/struts-tags”

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    • Walter wrote on 20 April, 2011, 1:17

      Update for:

      Download tld file for your directory /WEB-INF/

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  • rakesh tiwari wrote on 22 April, 2011, 19:10

    Thank you for providing this application on net, it is very helpful for beginner.

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  • geet wrote on 27 April, 2011, 12:37

    Hi,
    For all those who are hung up with HTTP 505/500 error here are few suggestions. I have tried running this sample in basic eclipse javaEE edition.(i.e one that does not support struts framework directly).

    1) Check if your resource folder is properly placed (should be inside ‘src’ folder). I feel that following the author’s steps are better rather getting distracted. Wrong placement of this folder will be the probable reason behind 500 error.
    2) I dont see any logic in this, but still, try avoiding blank spaces in between properties in the MessageResource file. (label.username=Login Detail). But surprisingly once the program works, reediting of this file to include spaces does not affect the output. If someone can clarify it.
    3) If you are on eclipse then for every change try cleaning up your server and restarting the server before running the project. Especilally the version of eclipse that does not have struts capabilities, since you are responsible entirely for setting up proper configuration.
    4) If its a 404 error then web.xml placement/contents are wrong.

    Hope it helps.

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  • maria wrote on 6 May, 2011, 23:55

    hi,
    thanx a lot, It was really helpful.I am pretty new to struts
    but when i submit an incorrect username/password ,the index page is not dispalyed again..
    please help

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  • vignesh wrote on 12 May, 2011, 10:18

    Hi how to perform easy loan distribution in hibernate and struts

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  • $umit wrote on 19 May, 2011, 15:17

    Good example buddy.. but i want some more help i got the following error. Can u pls help me out.

    exception

    org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:510)
    root cause
    org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:50)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

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  • Shreya wrote on 31 May, 2011, 20:44

    Hi Viral,

    Please help i am getting classcastexception……. please help me to solve this.
    .
    WARNING: Unhandled exception
    java.lang.ClassCastException: net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action.LoginAction cannot be cast to org.apache.struts.action.Action
    at org.apache.struts.chain.commands.servlet.CreateAction.createAction(CreateAction.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
    May 31, 2011 9:06:58 PM org.apache.struts.chain.commands.ExceptionCatcher postprocess
    WARNING: Exception from exceptionCommand ‘servlet-exception’
    java.lang.ClassCastException: net.viralpatel.struts.helloworld.action.LoginAction cannot be cast to org.apache.struts.action.Action
    at org.apache.struts.chain.commands.servlet.CreateAction.createAction(CreateAction.java:98)

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    • Viral Patel wrote on 2 June, 2011, 8:37

      Hi Shreya, Can you check if your LoginAction is extending struts Action class? It seems that its not extending the Action and thus giving ClassCastException!

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  • Tushar wrote on 9 June, 2011, 18:58

    Hi Viral,

    Thanks for giving such helpfull implementation process of Struts for us.I am facing below error :( ,
    org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Missing message for key “label.username”
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:541)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:417)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
    I had tried to place properties file in every directory ,also tried to enter the tag in both web.xml and struts-config.xml,but still I am unable to resolve the issue.Please can you post the the solution ASAP.Thanks in advance. :)

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  • ashu wrote on 14 June, 2011, 14:02

    thnx for the help…the message key missing really worked after i changed the resource folder and put the properties file into a package.

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  • vicky wrote on 14 June, 2011, 17:33

    superb,,, really nice,,,,,

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  • Mubeen wrote on 15 June, 2011, 15:42

    Hi,
    there is no code for login.jsp. but in index.jsp action=”login” has used.
    What should be in the login.jsp,..?

    Reply
  • suresh wrote on 17 June, 2011, 22:58

    so many people looking for integration with struts and hibernate in ecllipse,if it is possible please update

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