Compiler error in Action class - configuring data source in struts-config.xml. Please help!

[Anuradha Prasanna]

This is my Action class, "LoginAction.java"

package dummies.struts;

import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessage;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class LoginAction extends Action{

	public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
			HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) 
	throws Exception{
		javax.sql.DataSource dataSource;

		 dataSource = getDataSource(request);      //--------------line 1

		//Create a new LoginBean with valid users in it
		LoginBean lb = new LoginBean(dataSource);
		
		//Check to see if this user/password combination is valid
		if(lb.validateUser(((LoginForm)form).getUserName(), ((LoginForm)form).getPassword()))
		{
			request.setAttribute("userName", ((LoginForm)form).getUserName());
			return (mapping.findForward("success"));
		}
		else
		{
			//create ActionMessage and save it in the request
			ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
			ActionMessage error = new ActionMessage("error.login.invalid");
			errors.add("login",error);
			saveErrors(request,errors);
			
			return mapping.findForward("failure");
		}
				
	}
}

Compiler error in line 1 in the above class, "The method getDataSource(HttpServletRequest) is undefined for the type LoginAction"

here is my 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">

<!-- This is the Struts Configuration file for the Login application -->
<struts-config>
<!-- ========== Form Bean Definitions =========================== -->
<form-beans>
<form-bean name="loginForm"
           type="dummies.struts.LoginForm" />
</form-beans>

<!-- ============ Action Mapping Definitions ============== -->
<action-mappings>
<action 
attribute="loginForm"
path="/login"
type="dummies.struts.LoginAction"
name="loginForm"
scope="request"
input="/login.jsp"
validate="true" >

<forward name="failure" path="/login.jsp" />
<forward name="success" path="/loggedin.jsp" />
</action>
</action-mappings>

<!-- Message Resources Definitions -->
<message-resources null="false"
parameter="ApplicationResources" />

<!-- ======== Data Source Definitions ===================== -->

<data-sources>
<data-source type= "org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
			 <set-property property="description" value="Music Collection Database" />
<set-property property="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<set-property property="username" value="root" />
<set-property property="password" value="anu" />
<set-property property="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/musiccollection" />
<set-property property="maxCount" value="8" />
<set-property property="minCount" value="2" />
</data-source>
</data-sources>

</struts-config>

I added the jars, "commons-dbcp-1.4.jar" and "commons-pool-1.4.jar" the the eclipse build path, and /WEB-INF/lib
also to the tomcat(6.0.26)'s /WEB-INF/lib

Can anyone tell me why iam getting this compiler error in line 1 and also how to rectify the same?

[David Newton]

Did you look at the Javadocs for Struts 1.3 actions? I'd recommend that you do.

[Anuradha Prasanna]

can you please be more specific.
I would appreciate if somebody can explain with a simple example, how to configure datasources in struts 1.3.8.(as iam new to struts)
Iam using tomcat 6.

[David Newton]

Outside of Struts. People generally use JNDI, Spring, Hibernate, etc.

A simple search, even just here on JavaRanch, would turn things like this up:

https://coderanch.com/t/58897/Struts/Application-Frameworks/Struts-Data-Source
https://coderanch.com/t/55621/Struts/Application-Frameworks/struts-with-datasource