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Today's topics: * How secure is Java? - 5 messages, 4 authors http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/38d2eda5f6def0e3 * Attributes always empty when parsing XML documents - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/f93920023b216158 * Environment variable - 2 messages, 2 authors http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/e10a85f420f52962 * Stacktrace overflow - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/939c6348470bf4a4 * PreparedStatement can't handle "IN" in "WHERE" clause - 3 messages, 2 authors http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/2210b34eda18992b * program arguments - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/44d9b350ac879ea0 * Java on Linux - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/b359a0d20324fdbe * log4j & crontab - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/986ef0214f885d87 * Character Encoding of a DOM object - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/989f73fe61ccf13b * jvm wont start - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/e7908b9ab87f83ff * How do you cast to array? - 2 messages, 2 authors http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/884dee2def4bbb47 * What is package cache in a jar file - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/dec0c6e21c7d3f0b * ide sugestions for j2me dev - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/95ffdcc28f2b1a33 * How to create a excute file - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/453049a84ae975c2 * .exe Launched Java App -- How's It Working? - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/5fd9b8a5d2a9b437 * static vs. non-static method - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/67ffb5659c18541b * Struts validator won't work - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/fdad5b51303e2519 ========================================================================== TOPIC: How secure is Java? http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/38d2eda5f6def0e3 ========================================================================== == 1 of 5 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 2:29 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hiwa) Do you happen know, what would happen if we, with root privilege, run an rm -fr / or equivalent by using Runtime#exec() or java.io.File methods? == 2 of 5 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 2:34 am From: Michael Borgwardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hiwa wrote: > Do you happen know, what would happen if we, with root privilege, run > an rm -fr / or equivalent by using Runtime#exec() or java.io.File > methods? Same as would happen in any other language - bye bye, files. I fail to see what this has to do with security, though. Security lies in preventing unauthorized people from *gaining* root privileges, not in preventing people with root privileges from doing harmful things. == 3 of 5 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 2:48 am From: "Brusque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Michael Borgwardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hiwa wrote: > > Do you happen know, what would happen if we, with root privilege, run > > an rm -fr / or equivalent by using Runtime#exec() or java.io.File > > methods? > > Same as would happen in any other language - bye bye, files. Unless it's an applet, or the security policy doesn't allow calls to Runtime#exec() == 4 of 5 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 3:43 am From: Andrew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:48:55 +1000, Brusque wrote: > "Michael Borgwardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> hiwa wrote: >>> Do you happen know, what would happen if we, with root privilege, run >>> an rm -fr / or equivalent by using Runtime#exec() or java.io.File >>> methods? >> >> Same as would happen in any other language - bye bye, files. > > Unless it's an applet, or the security policy doesn't allow calls to > Runtime#exec() ..or no Java is installed, or no files are on the drive, or the drive is read only (EG CD), or somebody unplugs the drive, or the power fails (etcetera) -- Andrew Thompson http://www.PhySci.org/codes/ Web & IT Help http://www.PhySci.org/ Open-source software suite http://www.1point1C.org/ Science & Technology http://www.LensEscapes.com/ Images that escape the mundane == 5 of 5 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 4:03 am From: "Brusque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Andrew Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:48:55 +1000, Brusque wrote: > > > "Michael Borgwardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> hiwa wrote: > >>> Do you happen know, what would happen if we, with root privilege, run > >>> an rm -fr / or equivalent by using Runtime#exec() or java.io.File > >>> methods? > >> > >> Same as would happen in any other language - bye bye, files. > > > > Unless it's an applet, or the security policy doesn't allow calls to > > Runtime#exec() > > ..or no Java is installed, or no files are on the drive, or the > drive is read only (EG CD), or somebody unplugs the drive, or the > power fails (etcetera) Indeed. Were you taking the piss? :-P ========================================================================== TOPIC: Attributes always empty when parsing XML documents http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/f93920023b216158 ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 2:41 am From: TechBookReport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Carson wrote: > Thanks for the code sample! > > Are there more effective parsers? The code sample you provided suggests that > the reading of the values is a bit messy ... > > (I'm very found of the way you handle XML in the .Net-environment. In > C#/.Net you just define a schema (sort of a data set) and then the parser > just load that schema with the correct values automatically. ) > > Personally I much prefer JDOM (http://www.jdom.org). It's cleaner and much more intuitive IMHO. Pan ================================================ TechBookReport http://www.techbookreport.com ========================================================================== TOPIC: Environment variable http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/e10a85f420f52962 ========================================================================== == 1 of 2 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 2:44 am From: "Stefan Poehn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Thomas Weidenfeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > System.getenv() > > Was AFAIR deprecated in some Java versions, but has been "un-deprecated" > for some time. > Thanks. It works. Is there a replacement for this method that is not deprecated, or is it "forbidden" to use environment vars in java? > /Thomas == 2 of 2 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 2:57 am From: Michael Borgwardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stefan Poehn wrote: >>System.getenv() >> >>Was AFAIR deprecated in some Java versions, but has been "un-deprecated" >>for some time. >> > > > Thanks. It works. Is there a replacement for this method that is not > deprecated, No. > or is it "forbidden" to use environment vars in java? It is stringly discouraged, since it's not portable. Some systems don't have environment variables at all (such as pre-X MacOS), and they don't behave the same on all systems that do. ========================================================================== TOPIC: Stacktrace overflow http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/939c6348470bf4a4 ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 2:58 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver Brausch) Hello, I get a stacktrace overflow for an exception. So the exception is cut and I do not find where it is thrown. Is there a possibiliy to enlarge the size of the stack or another workaround to see the complete exception? -Oliver java.lang.Exception: STACKTRACE at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionManager.registerConnection(CachedConnectionManager.java:319) at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.BaseConnectionManager2.allocateConnection(BaseConnectionManager2.java:477) .... ========================================================================== TOPIC: PreparedStatement can't handle "IN" in "WHERE" clause http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/2210b34eda18992b ========================================================================== == 1 of 3 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 4:11 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (salaryman) I have a simple SQL statement: SELECT DISTINCT id FROM TheTable WHERE id in ('1', '2', '3', '4'); If I run this in my SQL query window it correctly returns the set [1, 2, 3, 4]. If I execute the SQL directly using Statement.executeQuery, I get the correct results. However, if I try and substitute the IN clause using a PreparedStatement: PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement("SELECT DISTINCT id from TheTable WHERE id IN (?)"); statement.setString(1, "'1', '2', '3', '4'"); The result set is empty. I also tried: statement.setString(1, "1, 2, 3, 4"); And this returns the set [1]. I am using MySQL and if I step into the code for PreparedStatement.setString(), I can see that single quotes are added to the front and end of the string, which explains why I am seeing the behaviour. But it doesn't seem right! Please can someone tell me whether or not this is expected behaviour, or is MySQL doing something strange. As far as I can tell, there is no solution for this problem, other than using a different query. Cheers. == 2 of 3 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 4:09 am From: "salaryman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a simple SQL statement: SELECT DISTINCT id FROM TheTable WHERE id in ('1', '2', '3', '4'); If I run this in my SQL query window it correctly returns the set [1, 2, 3, 4]. If I execute the SQL directly using Statement.executeQuery, I get the correct results. However, if I try and substitute the IN clause using a PreparedStatement: PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement("SELECT DISTINCT id from TheTable WHERE id IN (?)"); statement.setString(1, "'1', '2', '3', '4'"); The result set is empty. I also tried: statement.setString(1, "1, 2, 3, 4"); And this returns the set [1]. I am using MySQL and if I step into the code for PreparedStatement.setString(), I can see that single quotes are added to the front and end of the string, which explains why I am seeing the behaviour. But it doesn't seem right! Please can someone tell me whether or not this is expected behaviour, or is MySQL doing something strange. As far as I can tell, there is no solution for this problem, other than using a different query. Cheers. == 3 of 3 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 4:18 am From: Michael Borgwardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> salaryman wrote: > PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement("SELECT > DISTINCT id from TheTable WHERE id IN (?)"); > statement.setString(1, "'1', '2', '3', '4'"); > > The result set is empty. I also tried: > > statement.setString(1, "1, 2, 3, 4"); > > And this returns the set [1]. > > I am using MySQL and if I step into the code for > PreparedStatement.setString(), I can see that single quotes are added > to the front and end of the string, which explains why I am seeing the > behaviour. But it doesn't seem right! It *is* right, though. You have declared your PreparedStatement to have *one* parameter, so whatever you add will be inserted as one parameter. The whole point of PreparedStatement is that parameters are NOT interpreted as part of the SQL string. That's what makes precompilation possible and SQL insertion attacks impossible. ========================================================================== TOPIC: program arguments http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/44d9b350ac879ea0 ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 4:11 am From: Jeff Kish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:21:34 -0500, Jeff Kish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:26:38 +0100, Thomas Weidenfeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>Jeff Kish wrote: >>> mmm I have a feeling you are a unix sort of user, so you have a more mature >>> OS/environment that I >>> do. >> >>I use Solaris. I bet my newsgroup headers give it away. >> >>> Now I need to figure out a way to expand programmatically the >>> file-spec-wildcard passed in as a >>> parameter. >> >>Google for "file globbing" or "wildcard" source code (almost any >>programming language should do, the code should be easily portable to Java). >> >>/Thomas >I can't believe it. I think I've actually found it... It seems this may be a >part of Java, and you >do turn it off with quotes. >Here is what I found from a report at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00009.html > <snip> mm. I guess that is not really a "report", just some other user experiencing the same symptoms. But it sounds like it is really java doing this? I mean, if Unix always expands non quoted files globbing, then for java to "work" the same everywhere, I guess it would, on a Windows platform, have to expand the file wildcard so that the args would "look" the same to all applications. Sound logical? Thanks ========================================================================== TOPIC: Java on Linux http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/b359a0d20324fdbe ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 4:51 am From: Morten Alver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2. I don't know what the relationship between Blackdown and the Sun > Java is. I want to avoid conflicts in example programs. I've used the Sun, Blackdown and IBM Java distributions on linux, and not had any compatibility problems between them. I believe as good as all Linux distributions provide an easy way to install Java through their standard package management systems. You'd have to say which distribution you are using to get more specific info on this. -- Morten ========================================================================== TOPIC: log4j & crontab http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/986ef0214f885d87 ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:03 am From: "Vuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> when i implement crontab in my application his log4jjcrontab.properties overrides my log4j.properties ========================================================================== TOPIC: Character Encoding of a DOM object http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/989f73fe61ccf13b ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:34 am From: Martin Honnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rakesh Pandit wrote: > How can one find out the character encoding of > a DOM Document after an XML file has been > converted to the DOM object. Well the DOM document itself doesn't have any character encoding, it just operates on Java strings (which are Unicode strings). As for the encoding of the input XML with DOM Level 3 Core as implemented in JDK 1.5 there is a property http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Document3-inputEncoding With DOM Level 2 Core as implemented in JDK 1.4 there is no property telling you the encoding. -- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/ ========================================================================== TOPIC: jvm wont start http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/e7908b9ab87f83ff ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:35 am From: jmt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi guys We had a power failure yesterday and that seem to have stuffed up my vm.Typing "java" from the command prompt , I get the following error message : Error occurred during initialization of VM java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object Jeff Registered Linux user number 366042 ========================================================================== TOPIC: How do you cast to array? http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/884dee2def4bbb47 ========================================================================== == 1 of 2 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:21 am From: NOBODY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boiled down, you finally make sense. Thanks for the exhaustive explaination. But whatever words I use, if avoiding 'new' give me a magnitude of throughput increase, I won't forget the trick soon. > ([*] after all, if there are programmers who don't see anything wrong > with storing several million java.lang.Floats in an ArrayList.....) Can you imagine the upcoming nightmare with 1.5 autoboxing?! This is the worst feature of 1.5. It is a serious mistake from a language perspective. There is a limit to laziness in order to be a good programmer. Juniors are gonna start using autoboxing like they know nothing better. Same for the new 'for' loop, trashing iterators. Damn it, we will have to develop another language again... ;) == 2 of 2 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:54 am From: Michael Borgwardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NOBODY wrote: > But whatever words I use, if avoiding 'new' give me a magnitude of > throughput increase, I won't forget the trick soon. It may have given you that increase in *one particular program*. It's still a really bad idea to start prematurely optimizing it everywhere. There are certainly a lot of operations that are quicker than a 'new', but far, far more that are orders of magnitude slower. It's just not very likely that 'new' really turns out to be what slows down a program. That's what profilers are for. > Can you imagine the upcoming nightmare with 1.5 autoboxing?! > This is the worst feature of 1.5. It is a serious mistake from a language > perspective. I don't think so at all. > There is a limit to laziness in order to be a good programmer. > Juniors are gonna start using autoboxing like they know nothing better. And most of the time it will be not problem at all, see above. > Same for the new 'for' loop, trashing iterators. I really, *really* don't see how this could *ever* turn into a problem. What circumstances do you imagine where the for(type object:iterable) loop would now be used where what would have been used before (*is* there anything beside while(iterator.hasNext())??) was in any way faster? ========================================================================== TOPIC: What is package cache in a jar file http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/dec0c6e21c7d3f0b ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:39 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerbrand van Dieijen) On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:46:39 +1300, HS1 wrote: >Hello all >I know that a jar file is considered as zip file. I see a Jar file that has >a package cache. Could you please tell me the purpose of this "package" or >locate a tutorial about content of a jar file... JBuilder (Maker/compiler) creates a folder 'package cache' when building source files, I think it originates from there. I don't know if other make utilities do that, but it's probably from JBuilder. -- Gerbrand van Dieijen ========================================================================== TOPIC: ide sugestions for j2me dev http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/95ffdcc28f2b1a33 ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:41 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerbrand van Dieijen) On 16 Nov 2004 21:21:14 -0800, Mike Crabs wrote: >can anyone recommend an ide that does not require some kind of super >computer to be able to use it. Are you frustated because your mum wouldn't buy you a new computer? -- Gerbrand van Dieijen ========================================================================== TOPIC: How to create a excute file http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/453049a84ae975c2 ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:44 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerbrand van Dieijen) On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:53:44 +1300, HS1 wrote: >Hello all > > > >I want to create an execute file (only one .exe file for Windows) for my >project. This project uses some available component such as JFree for >creating report or mysql-connector to connect to a mySQL database)... . So >when I want to create the file, do I have to add all of those libraries into >this file? > I use Exe4j for that, which works very fine. You still need an JVM, but you can simple include the folder JRE as subfolder in your applications directory (which can be packed/installed with it). -- Gerbrand van Dieijen ========================================================================== TOPIC: .exe Launched Java App -- How's It Working? http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/5fd9b8a5d2a9b437 ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 5:46 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerbrand van Dieijen) On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:00:34 GMT, cppaddict wrote: >I have program (made with exe4j) that uses an .exe file to launch a >I would like to know exactly which command the .exe file is issuing to >start the application. That is, what the command line args or other >options are. You should ask the creator of exe4j, but I think it doesn't use the command line but calls the JVM.dll directly. -- Gerbrand van Dieijen ========================================================================== TOPIC: static vs. non-static method http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/67ffb5659c18541b ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 6:23 am From: "dingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> static works for the class. non static works for the instances of that class. "Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What is the difference? > > ========================================================================== TOPIC: Struts validator won't work http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/fdad5b51303e2519 ========================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Nov 17 2004 7:01 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwinek) Hi, I've made a validator for comparing one form field with another and return true for equality. However, when I test the code, I get this stack trace: [17/11/04 14:43:31:203 CET] 5f57da12 ValidatorForm E org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorForm TRAS0014I: The following exception was logged org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorException: validateEqualToField at org.apache.commons.validator.Field.validateForRule(Field.java:811) at org.apache.commons.validator.Field.validate(Field.java:901) at org.apache.commons.validator.Form.validate(Form.java:178) at org.apache.commons.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:373) at org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorForm.validate(ValidatorForm.java:117) ... etc ... The actual validator method is never reached (I put a breakpoint there to make sure). Any ideas? This is the code: <form name="formbeaninterhelpupdatemembersecurity"> <field property="pinCode" depends="regexp, comparewithotherfield"> <msg name="regexp" key="interhelp.error.field.number.length.fixed"/> <arg0 name="regexp" key="interhelp.updatemembersecurity.pincode"/> <arg1 name="regexp" key="${var:maxlength}" resource="false"/> <msg name="comparewithotherfield" key="interhelp.error.field.compare"/> <arg0 name="comparewithotherfield" key="interhelp.updatemembersecurity.pincode"/> <var> <var-name>regexp</var-name> <var-value>[0-9][0-9][0-9]</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>maxlength</var-name> <var-value>3</var-value> </var> <var> <var-name>comparewithotherfield</var-name> <var-value>pinCodeCheck</var-value> </var> </field> <field property="answer" depends="required, maxlength"> <msg name="required" key="interhelp.error.field.required"/> <arg0 name="required" key="interhelp.updatemembersecurity.answer"/> <msg name="maxlength" key="interhelp.error.field.length"/> <arg0 name="maxlength" key="interhelp.updatemembersecurity.answer"/> <arg1 name="maxlength" key="${var:maxlength}" resource="false"/> <var> <var-name>maxlength</var-name> <var-value>16</var-value> </var> </field> <field property="question" depends="required, maxlength"> <msg name="required" key="interhelp.error.field.required"/> <arg0 name="required" key="interhelp.updatemembersecurity.question"/> <msg name="maxlength" key="interhelp.error.field.length"/> <arg0 name="maxlength" key="interhelp.updatemembersecurity.question"/> <arg1 name="maxlength" key="${var:maxlength}" resource="false"/> <var> <var-name>maxlength</var-name> <var-value>40</var-value> </var> </field> </form> <validator name="comparewithotherfield" classname="nl.xxxx.pd.appl.form.validator.FormFieldValidator" method="validateEqualToField" methodParams="java.lang.Object, org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction, org.apache.commons.validator.Field, org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest" msg="interhelp.error.field.compare"/> public static boolean validateEqualToField( Object bean, ValidatorAction va, Field field, ActionErrors errors, HttpServletRequest request) { String value = ValidatorUtil.getValueAsString(bean, field.getProperty()); String sProperty2 = field.getVarValue("comparewithotherfield"); String value2 = ValidatorUtil.getValueAsString(bean, sProperty2); if (!GenericValidator.isBlankOrNull(value)) { try { if (!value.equals(value2)) { errors.add( field.getKey(), Resources.getActionMessage(request, va, field)); return false; } } catch (Exception e) { errors.add( field.getKey(), Resources.getActionMessage(request, va, field)); return false; } } return true; } By the way, the ServletContext parameter (as seen in the example on http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/dev_validator.html) isn't present on any of the validators (the ones that do work) in our application. Adding it anyway (I tried) doesn't make any difference. Thanks, Edwin ======================================================================= You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "comp.lang.java.programmer". comp.lang.java.programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change your subscription type & other preferences: * click http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/subscribe Report abuse: * send email explaining the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: * click http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/subscribe ======================================================================= Google Groups: http://groups-beta.google.com
