Struts Validator Error Messages Are Not Appearing

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Hi All,

I'm trying to use the Struts Validator for the first time and my error messages aren't appearing . . .

The relevant portions of my source code are shown below. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Rob

**************** 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="DefectForm" type="Defect"/>
		
	</form-beans>      
	    
	 
	<global-exceptions> 
	</global-exceptions>
	
	<global-forwards>
		<forward   name="logon" path="/logon.do"/>
	</global-forwards>
	 
	<action-mappings> 
	
	      
       
      <action path="/insertdefect"
            type="InsertDefect"
            name="DefectForm"
            input="/adddefect.jsp"
            validate="true"
            cancellable="true"
            scope="session">      
            <forward name="success" path="/initializeadddefect.do"/>
            <forward name="failure" path="/adddefect.jsp"/>
      </action>       
      
            
	</action-mappings>  
	 
	<message-resources parameter="ericenhancements.resources.ApplicationResources"></message-resources>  
	    
		
	<plug-in className="net.sf.navigator.menu.MenuPlugIn">
  		<set-property property="menuConfig" value="/WEB-INF/menu-config.xml"/> 
	</plug-in>
	
	<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">   
  		<set-property property="pathnames" value="/org/apache/struts/validator/validator-rules.xml, /WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>   
	</plug-in>  
	 
	
	
	
</struts-config>

**************** validation.xml ***************

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

<!DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC
     "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules Configuration 1.3.0//EN"
     "http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_3_0.dtd">

<form-validation>

</global>

</formset>

</form-validation>

**************** adddefect.jsp ***************

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 
<%@page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
	
<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://struts-menu.sf.net/tag" prefix="menu" %>
	 
	 
<html:html>     
<head>  
<title>adddefect</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

</head>   
<body>   
<br>
	  
	<html:form action="insertdefect" method="post">  
	<div id="MainDisplay">
	<table>
 	<tr>
 	   <td>
 	      <html:errors/>    		
 	   </td>
 	</tr>
 	<tr> 
 	      <th>Priority</th>    
 	      <td> 
 	      <html:select property="priorityId">
 	      		<html:option value="Select one"/>
             	         <html:options collection="Priorities" property="priorityId" labelProperty="description"/>
                       </html:select>  
 	  </tr>     
 	   
 	  <tr> 
 	     <th>Fix Time Estimate</th>
 	     <td><html:text property="estFixTime"/></td>
 	  </tr>
    
                   <tr>
 	     <td  ><html:submit property="actionButton" value="Submit"/></td> 
 	  </tr>  
 	</table> 
	</div> 
	</html:form>
		 
</body>
</html:html>

**************** ApplicationResources.properties ***************

#   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
#   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
#   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
#   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
#   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
#   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
#   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
#   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
#   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
#   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
#   limitations under the License.

# -- standard errors --
errors.header=<UL>
errors.prefix=<LI>
errors.suffix=</LI>
errors.footer=</UL>
# -- 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.
# -- other --
errors.cancel=Operation cancelled.
errors.detail={0}
errors.general=The process did not complete. Details should follow.
errors.token=Request could not be completed. Operation is not in sequence.
# -- welcome --
welcome.title=Struts Blank Application
welcome.heading=Welcome!
welcome.message=To get started on your own application, copy the struts-blank.war to a new WAR file using the name for your application. Place it in your container's "webapp" folder (or equivalent), and let your container auto-deploy the application. Edit the skeleton configuration files as needed, restart your container, and you are on your way! (You can find the MessageResources.properties file with this message in the /WEB-INF/src folder.)

# -- Application Error Constants -- 
label.name=Estimated Fix Time

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