decorator.jsp problem building Struts Menu in JSP when Struts action is used

[dkirvan]

I am using JSP, Struts and sitemesh in several web apps. After signing onto to the system the home page is displayed with the struts menu at top and a navigation menu along the left side of the jsp page. I am using a decorator.jsp to build the completed jsp page. If I click on a menu option or navigation option that calls a struts action class and then processes the new jsp the building of the new jsp fails when it is rebuilding the struts menu jsp. If I click on a link that calls another jsp with out struts action involved then the jsp is built with out any problems.

The error I am receiving is

878756 [http-8080-Processor25] (MessageResourcesMenuDisplayer.java:72) DEBUG net.sf.navigator.displayer.ListMenuDisplayer - Looking up message 'ToDoListMenuProject' in Struts' MessageResources
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResources
at net.sf.navigator.displayer.MessageResourcesMenuDis player.getMessage(MessageResourcesMenuDisplayer.ja va:76)
at net.sf.navigator.displayer.ListMenuDisplayer.displ ayComponents(ListMenuDisplayer.java:52)
at net.sf.navigator.displayer.ListMenuDisplayer.displ ay(ListMenuDisplayer.java:41)
at net.sf.navigator.taglib.DisplayMenuTag.doStartTag( DisplayMenuTag.java:100)
at org.apache.jsp.jsp.decorator_jsp._jspx_meth_menu_d isplayMenu_0(decorator_jsp.java:574)

I have this code in my struts-config

<plug-in className="net.sf.navigator.menu.MenuPlugIn">
<set-property property="menuConfig" value="/WEB-INF/menu-config.xml" />
</plug-in>



The menu-config.xml is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MenuConfig>
<Displayers>
<Displayer name="DropDown"
type="net.sf.navigator.displayer.DropDownMenuDispl ayer" />
<Displayer name="ListMenu"
type="net.sf.navigator.displayer.ListMenuDisplayer " />
</Displayers>
<Menus>
<Menu name="ToDoListMenuProject" title="Project" description="test"
width="200">
<Item name="TDLteam" title="Team">
<Item name="TDLjohn" title="John"
page="/johnD.do" width="40" />
<Item name="TDLdoug" title="Doug"
page="/dougT.do" width="40" />
<Item name="TDLshirley" title="Shirley"
page="/shirleyS.do" width="40" />
<Item name="TDLdavid" title="David"
page="/jsp/davidK.jsp" width="40" />
</Item>
</Menu>

<Menu name="ToDoListMenuList" title="Filter" width="200">
<Item name="TDLactiveItems" title="Active Items"
page="${filterActive}" width="100" />
<Item name="TDLallItems" title="All Items"
page="${filterAll}" width="100" />
<Item name="TDLdeletedItems" title="Deleted Items"
page="${filterDeleted}" width="150" />
</Menu>

<Menu name="ToDoListSelectCompany" title="Company" width="100">
<Item name="TDLagriStats" title="Agri Stats"
page="/home.do?do=compAgriStats" width="190" />
<Item name="TDLexpressMarkets" title="Express Markets"
page="/home.do?do=compExpressMarkets" width="190" />
</Menu>


<Menu name="ToDoListMenuLogoff" title="Log Out" description="LogOut"
width="200">
<Item name="TDLlogout" title="LOG OUT"
page="/logon.do?do=showLogon" width="100" />
</Menu>

</Menus>
</MenuConfig>

[dkirvan]

Problem Resolved:
I had to put the struts.jar and struts-menu-2.4.3.jar in the common/lib for tomcat and remove them from the individual web-app's lib directory. In addition, I had to coppy the commons.*.jars to common/lib for tomcat except for the commons.logging.jar which caused problems if removed from the individual web-app's directory.

[whiteasshweta]

Can you please tell me whether you are using struts 1 or 2..............

[ashuiitr]

After session time out if i click on a link ,it redirect to login page.
After login i came back on the same page which clicked earlier but menu dissapears.