[STR-2299] Cannot use rebuilt struts-blank example; doesn't work because of bad message-resource parameter.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.4
• Component/s: Example Applications
• Environment: Operating System: Windows XP; Platform: PC
• Bugzilla Id: 32484
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Maarten@RW
• Created: 02/Dec/04 09:05
• Updated: 16/Feb/11 19:47
• Resolved: 04/Jul/07 05:30

Description

I downloaded and installed Tomcat 5.5.4.
I downloaded struts 1.2.4, and dropped the .war files in Tomcat's webapps dir.
I went to "http://localhost:8080/struts-blank" and got the welcome message.
All is well so far.

Now opened a DOS window, went to <Tomcat-webapps-dir>/struts-blank/WEB-
INF/src, and ran "ant all" (using ant 1.6.1). This generates a new .war file
in "c:/projects/lib" called "blank.war". I took that .war file and dropped it
into Tomcat's webapps dir.
Then I went to "http://localhost:8080/blank" but now I got an error
complaining about missing resources (welcome.title).

After some searching, I found the problem. The struts-config.xml file that
comes within the struts-blank.war of the struts 1.2.4 distribution has the
following line:

<message-resources parameter="MessageResources" />

Indeed, in the struts-blank.war file, the resource file is called
MessageResources.properties, but in the WEB-INF/classes/resources directory,
the file there is called application.properties.
<message-resources parameter="resources.application" />