Struts DateFormat / Locale problem after rebooting WebSphere AppServer

[Silvija Cardzic-Mrsa <si...@ametras.com>]

Hi, 

My struts application is installed on a WebSphere Application Server. 
AppServer and OS is installed in english language version.
In the struts application I'm setting the locale to german, for formatting 
date and time values and saving to database - it works fine so far. 
After rebooting the server (all installed applications will be restarted), 
I get an error message when saving datetime values to database: 
Date/Timeformat is not valid. 
So the application is not working, despite of locale is set correctly.

If I restart the single application in the WebSphere Administratior 
Console it works again.

This problem appears only if server/os language and locale I'm setting are 
different.

Im setting the locale like this:
Locale.setDefault(new Locale("de","DE","EURO"));
Locale loc = new Locale("de","DE","EURO");
VSApplicationContext.setLocale(loc); 

The date-Fields look like this
<input type="text" name="rentObjTransactWB.planCheckInDate" 
value="<bean:write name="rentInfoForm" 
property="rentObjTransactWB.planCheckInDate" bundle="format" 
formatKey="format.shortDate"/>"> 

and the Resource contains the key
format.shortDate=dd.MM.yyyy

Using:
IBM WebSphere Application Server for Network Deployment, 5.0.2.4
JDK Version: 1.4.2_06-b03
Struts 1.1
Versata Struts


SystemOut.log
[9/7/05 14:56:14:156 CEST]  da6e2e5 WebGroup      I SRVE0180I: [Online 
Reservierung] [/OnlineReservierung] [Servlet.LOG]: [SEVERE] (2005-09-07 
14:56:14 CEST com.versata.vstruts.struts.action.VLSStandardAction 
handleException) Handling exception; forward alias = "saveAllFailure", 
exception message = "DataSource "rentObjTransactDS" cannot parse 
"08.09.2005" as a valid DATE for field "PlanCheckInDate" (using Format 
instance stored under key 
"rentInfoForm.rentObjTransactWB.planCheckInDate")"
[9/7/05 14:56:14:156 CEST]  da6e2e5 WebGroup      I SRVE0181I: [Online 
Reservierung] [/OnlineReservierung] [Servlet.LOG]: [SEVERE] (2005-09-07 
14:56:14 CEST com.versata.vstruts.struts.action.VLSStandardAction 
handleException) Created ActionError for IllegalArgumentException; key = 
"vls.error.global", exception message = "An exception was encountered 
while updating data"
: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An exception was encountered while 
updating data
        at 
com.versata.vstruts.model.BeanModel.updateDataState(BeanModel.java:423)
        at 
com.versata.vstruts.struts.action.VLSStandardAction.dsSaveAll(VLSStandardAction.java:770)


Thanks for help
Silvija