Struts html tags are not working

Ramis picture Ramis · Dec 29, 2012 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

I just tried to include a textbox in jsp page with struts provided tags. But it's behaving every typical.

Working

<html:text property="name" value=""></html:text>

Not Working

<html:text property="name"></html:text>
So, with out property 'value', its not working. Please help me guys.

Note: Using tomcat 6.0
bean, logics are working good and in html also most of them are working. radio, textarea, text are some which are causing issues.
JSP FILE

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Registration Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<html:text property="name"></html:text>
</body>
</html>

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

11: <title>Registration Form</title>
12: </head>
13: <body>
14: <html:text property="name"></html:text>
15: </body>
16: </html>


Stacktrace:
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:505)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:398)
    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)


root cause 

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find bean: "org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BEAN" in any scope
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:852)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:781)
    org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:79)
    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)


root cause 

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find bean: "org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BEAN" in any scope
    org.apache.struts.taglib.TagUtils.lookup(TagUtils.java:864)
    org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BaseFieldTag.prepareValue(BaseFieldTag.java:126)
    org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BaseFieldTag.renderInputElement(BaseFieldTag.java:102)
    org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BaseFieldTag.doStartTag(BaseFieldTag.java:80)
    org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_html_005ftext_005f0(index_jsp.java:96)
    org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:69)
    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)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 logs.


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Apache Tomcat/6.0.18

Answer

JB Nizet picture JB Nizet · Dec 29, 2012

The <html:text> tag is supposed to be enclosed inside an <html:form> tag, which defines the action, and thus the ActionForm instance from which <html:text> gets its value.