Disappointed with MyEclipse 6.5

I am a servlet/MyEclipse newbie but, FWIW, I hold graduate degrees in computer science, mathematics, have worked as a programmer and researcher, and am not brain dead. 🙂

When I posted somewhat detailed information re: how I had tried (and failed) to launch a servlet (that I had previously created and launched using a non-genuitec Resin server running on localhost), that infomation seemed to be ignored in favor of a generic, most-likely-given-past-experience, response. Thinking that perhaps my post was not understood, I replied, trying to clarify. No response (yet?).

After another failed attempt, this time using the servlet wizard, I wondered if my attempt to develop the servlet directly was too old school and decided to try the Struts 1.x tutorial (a “start small” strategy). Nevertheless, when I follow the tutorial, the following web.xml is generated (by MyEclipse, not me).

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<web-app xmlns=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee&#8221; xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221; version=”2.4″ xsi:schemaLocation=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd”&gt;
<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>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>3</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>detail</param-name>
<param-value>3</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

When I launch the app as described in the tutorial, I do not get a login screen but (ironically) the generic index.jsp defined response “This is my JSP page”. Do I need to remove the index.jsp or modify it? It is irritating (as one product reviewer put it) to have to ask this question.

I’d like to keep using MyEclipse, but it is starting to seem that I do not know enough which documentation/help/support to accept and what to ignore. If I am too much of a newbie to be able to use MyEclipse 6.5, or even it’s tutorials, as perhaps indicated by the level of “support” I’ve received so, far, I would like a refund.

@support-rkalla wrote:

rwwilson,

You are doing everything correct (I think) but your index.jsp page isn’t the one with the content you wrote, and notice down in Figure 30 of the tutorial that the specific URL being addressed is:
http://localhost:8080/StrutsLoginDemo/userLogin.jsp

we load the specific userLogin page. You can rename userLogin to index.jsp or put a forward in index.jsp to send the user over to that page, either will work.

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If I understand you correctly, you are telling me that the tutorial is incomplete/incorrect in that additional steps are required by the user to generate the expected behavior described. Please confirm.

Is there an option to either: (1) have the forward automatically generated in the index.jsp or (2) have the embedded Tomcat load the desired page (userLogin.jsp) versus index.jsp?