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Directory Structure of JavascriptTagExample in Struts 1.3 Using MyEclipse IDE

 index.jsp
<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%>
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!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=UTF-8">
<title>Struts html:javascript tag example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Struts html:javascript tag example</h3>
<html:form action="/javascriptsAction" onsubmit="return validateJavascriptsForm(this);">
<html:javascript formName="javascriptsForm" />
<bean:message key="label.name"/>:
<html:text property="name" name="javascriptsForm"/><br/>
<bean:message key="label.password"/>:
<html:password property="password" name="javascriptsForm"/><br/>
<br/>
<html:submit><bean:message key="label.submit" /></html:submit>
<html:reset><bean:message key="label.reset" /></html:reset>
</html:form>
</body>
</html>

web.xml

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
 "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" >
 
<web-app>
  <display-name>Maven Struts Examples</display-name> 
  <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> 
</web-app>

struts-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC 
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN" 
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd">
<struts-config>
  <form-beans>
    <form-bean name="javascriptsForm" type="org.r4r.struts.JavascriptForm"/>
  </form-beans>
  <global-exceptions />
  <global-forwards />
  <action-mappings >
    <action path="/javascripts" type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" parameter="/index.jsp"/>
		<action path="/javascriptsAction" type="org.r4r.struts.JavascriptAction" 
		name="javascriptsForm" input="/index.jsp" validate="true" scope="request">	
         <forward name="success" path="/success.jsp"/>
		</action>
  </action-mappings>
  <message-resources parameter="org.r4r.struts.ApplicationResources" />
  <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
        <set-property
            property="pathnames"
            value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
    </plug-in>  
</struts-config>

JavascriptForm.java

package org.r4r.struts;

import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class JavascriptForm extends ActionForm {
	private String name;
	private String password;
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	public String getPassword() {
		return password;
	}
	public void setPassword(String password) {
		this.password = password;
	}
}

JavascriptAction.java

package org.r4r.struts;

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

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 JavascriptAction extends Action {
	public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,ActionForm form,
		HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception{
		@SuppressWarnings("unused")
		JavascriptForm javascriptsForm=(JavascriptForm)form;
		return mapping.findForward("success");
	}

}

ApplicationResources.properties

#label message
label.name = User Name 
label.password = Password
label.submit = Submit
label.reset = Reset
errors.name= Name 
errors.password= Password Length
errors.minlength=Password Length Greater than Six
# -- validator --
errors.invalid={0} is invalid.
errors.maxlength={0} can not be greater than {1} characters.
errors.minlength={0} can not be less than {1} characters.
errors.range={0} is not in the range {1} through {2}.
errors.required={0} is required.
errors.byte={0} must be an byte.
errors.date={0} is not a date.
errors.double={0} must be an double.
errors.float={0} must be an float.
errors.integer={0} must be an integer.
errors.long={0} must be an long.
errors.short={0} must be an short.
errors.creditcard={0} is not a valid credit card number.
errors.email={0} is an invalid e-mail address.

success.jsp

<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%>
 
<html>
<head>
<title>Struts html:javascript tag example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Struts html:javascript tag example</h3>
<h4>Welcome , <bean:write name="javascriptsForm" property="name" /></h4>
</body>
</html>

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