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Exercise 7: Better Form and Action Handling

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/*
Business Objectives: 
The following business objectives will be met at the end of this exercise: 
1. Split customer form into multiple pages 
2. Prevent the customer from going back and resubmitting and getting a database error. 
3. Better Exception handling in the system 
Technical Objectives for this exercise: 
The technical objectives of this exercise is to learn how to: 
19. To fix the bug: when Enter key is pressed in the Customer Search Form, a blank page is shown 
20. Use DispatchAction 
21. See how things work without exception handling mechanism 
22. Provide exception handling mechanism (DuplicateCustomerException) 
23. Create custom exception handlers 
24. Provide Global exception handling mechanism with JSP 
25. Create base ActionForm and Action Classes and use them 
26. Create multipage forms. (Expln Only) 
27. Handle Duplicate Form Submissions for CustomerForm (Expln Only) 
28. Use DynaActionForm for CustomerSearchForm (Expln Only) 
Default enter does not do search in Customer Search Form 
2. Using DispatchAction 
a. Create two methods Create and Edit (notice the case) in ShowCustomerAction so that each 
method taking exactly the same input parameters as the execute method. 
b. Add appropriate code into each of these methods 
c. Comment (or delete) the execute method 
1. When Enter key is pressed in the Customer Search Form, a blank page is shown 
a. This happens because the CustomerSearchAction performs the search only if serch.x or search.y 
are not null. Remove the if condition and it will work for enter key 
........
*/


// when I try to deploy the exercise07.jar, some exceptions are printed
/*
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of clas
s struts.example.util.ApplicationScopeInit
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.Properties$LineReader.readLine(Properties.java:365)
        at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:293)
        at struts.example.util.ApplicationScopeInit.contextInitialized(Unknown S
ource)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContex
t.java:3637)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4
073)

*/


           
       








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