Struts installation notes - example's setLocale on JRun

[Peter Doyle <pe...@teomedia.com>]

Hi,
 I was writing up the Installation notes for the example and documentation
web applications for JRun when I came across the same problem. (I haven't
installed the example app since 0.5)

allaire.jrun.scripting.DefaultCFE:
Errors reported by
compiler:D:/smartserver/peter/serving_eng/Struts-Example/WEB-INF/jsp/jrun__i
ndex2ejspa.java:44:1:44:27: Error: No match was found for method
"setLocale(java.lang.String)".

The deployment is grand, its this setLocale method that stops the example.
I'll check out Allaire and the JRun postings for updates and include any
findings.

I'm not on struts-dev so I will check there for updates.

Peter

PS
what's with this funny background?



  -----Original Message-----
  From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:Craig.McClanahan@eng.sun.com]
  Sent: 28 January 2001 05:03
  To: struts-user@jakarta.apache.org
  Subject: Re: Can't run nightly releases


  Carl Tallis wrote:
    Hi, all -     I'm using JRun, and the 0.5 classes/tags work great, but I
can't even get the later sample application to run:/newstrutsdemo/:
    javax.servlet.ServletException: Compilation error occured:

    allaire.jrun.scripting.DefaultCFE:
    Errors reported by compiler:C:/Program
Files/Allaire/JRun/servers/default/New Struts
Demo/WEB-INF/jsp/jrun__index2ejspa.java:41:1:41:27: Error: No match was
found for method "setLocale(java.lang.String)".
    Pretty basic stuff.  However, looking at the messages on this list, it's
obvious that people *are* using the nightly builds. Anyone ever seen this
error? What execution environments are people using who can run the later
distributions (i.e. post 0.5)?Carl TallisDirector Of ProductsSupplyLinks,
Inc.Tel: (703) 796-6010Fax: (703) 796-6014email: CTallis@SupplyLinks.com

  Unfortunately, it appears that JRun has an implementation bug.
  The servlet container is supposed to do automatic type conversions when
the data type of a custom tag property is something other than a String.  In
this particular case, the "locale" property accepts a boolean value.

  The set of required conversions are in Table 2-4 on page 65 of the JSP 1.1
specification.  Originally, it was not clear (in the spec) that these
conversions applied to custom tag attributes, as well as <jsp:setProperty/>,
but this was cleared up in an errata to the spec that was published last
April, at:

      http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/errata_1_1_a_042800.html

  As a workaround on JRun, you can add a String setter for each non-String
property, but this is not a good long term solution, because such a tag will
not work on any other servlet engine (because the Java reflection code will
see two setter methods, and therefore decide that neither of them is
appropriate -- so the property will be considered read only).

  Craig McClanahan