Struts - Error - "Cannot find ActionMappings or ActionFormBeans collection"

[Ghouse Mohideen]

I have made a sample Struts application in IBM Websphere Studio Application Developer, which is working fine

But after deploying the war file on Sun Java System Application Server 8, Iam getting following error after launching the welcome page "login.jsp"

javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot find ActionMappings or ActionFormBeans collection
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:830)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:763)
org.apache.jsp.Login_jsp._jspService(Login_jsp.java:94)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:105)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:860)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:336)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:297)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:247)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:860)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:249)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:282)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:165)


root cause

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find ActionMappings or ActionFormBeans collection
org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag.lookup(FormTag.java:798)
org.apache.struts.taglib.html.FormTag.doStartTag(FormTag.java:506)
org.apache.jsp.Login_jsp._jspx_meth_html_form_0(Login_jsp.java:110)
org.apache.jsp.Login_jsp._jspService(Login_jsp.java:84)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:105)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:860)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:336)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:297)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:247)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:860)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:249)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:282)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:165)



Is that the problem with Doctype?

I used the following doctype

<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">


Do i need to change the doctype?

Please help me outin this regard.

Thnaks in advance

[RoshaniG Gopal]

Hi,

Please try as suggested by the foll link. http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=387141&messageID=2684678

[Ghouse Mohideen]

I have seen the link, I said we need to have the following jars,

commons-beanutils.jar,
commons-collections.jar,
commons-dbcp.jar,
commons-digester.jar,
commons-fileupload.jar,
commons-lang.jar,
commons-logging.jar,
commons-pool.jar,,
commons-resources.jar,
commons-validator.jar,
jakarta-oro.jar,
struts.jar

I have imported all the jars listed,

but still the problem persits.

Is there any compatibility issue with ear produced by IBM websphere and
Sun Java System Application server.

Please let me know.

Regards,

[Merrill Higginson]

The answer to this question is found at question number 12 of the JavaRanch Struts FAQ.

[Deepak Bala]

I placed struts.jar on the classpath to solve this once. Are you sure the required jars are available on your classpath ?

[Merrill Higginson]

The trouble with this error message is that it's never the real error. To find the real error, you have to look at your app server's log file for the time period when your app server is first starting up.

[Prasad Tamirisa]

placing the relevent jar file in the class path may solve this problem.!

[Kevin Liu]

check your web.xml and struts-config.xml

[Ghouse Mohideen]

Thank you all!!!

It worked, I use to get error as

java.net.MalformedURLException: Path WEB-INF/struts-config.xml does not start with a "/" character

in server logs,

after checking web.xml which has init param as

<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>

after changing this to

<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>

it started working!!

regards,