Jakarta Struts Cookbook
by Bill Siggelkow

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated July 31, 2008.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


{60}  static on String months first line;
I have tried out the month example (3.3 pp.58-61). I am not a seasoned jsp
developer so this could easily be my misunderstanding.

When using the EL
{calendar.monthSet.months[9]} (9 is an example)...it won't find the property if it's
static, as it is in the text of the book (assuming it's strictly looking for a
javabean property). It worked by making months non static.

Also I believe:
{calendar.monthSet.month[monthIndex]}
should read:
{calendar.monthSet.months[monthIndex]}

Also, how can monthIndex be a bean, if it's an integer? (p.60)


{63}  public void reset(){...};
The reset should reinitialise the web link list..otherwise you get an index out of
bounds if you resubmit the form AND exception and the reset button fails to work.


{68}  top of page;
<html-el:text property='color[${ctr}]'/>
ctr is not defined in the loop as before.

To fix this, you'd need:
<html-el:text property='color[${loopStatus.index}]'/>


{87}  towards bottom of 2nd code fragment.;
items ="${languageChoices.languageIdeMap[DevPollForm.map.language]}">
should be:
items ="${languageChoices.languageIdeMap[DevPollForm.language]}">


{91}  start of 2nd paragraph;
The 2nd paragraph states that an Action is included. It's only included with the
source as ProcessDateAction.java, and it's incorrectly included in the ch04 folder
instead of Ch03.


[116]  Example 4-5 Vertical bar chart JSP;
missing the line of
<jsp:useBean id="weeklyWeather"
             class="com.oreilly.strutsckbk.ch04.WeeklyWeather"/>

This example does not work for IE6 and IE7. It does work for Firefox.


(227)  2nd paragraph;
"When used by the Validator, a regular expression specified by the mask validator does
replace the basic required validator."
should read:
"...does not replace..."


{295} 4th paragraph;
It says:

Then, the rowSet property is used to access a List of DynaBeans.

But the code in Example 10-3 says:
<logic:iterate id="row" name="rowSet" propert="rows">

I looked at http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/api/org/apache/commons/beanutils/RowSetDynaClass.html and the property is called rows.


(305)  Thread Local Variables Explained sidebar;
"...it may appear that only on Hibernate session will be for the application..."
should read:
"...it may appear that only one Hibernate session will be instantiated for..."