Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Dear Java Community,

I am using a very old version of struts - Jakarta Struts 1.1 b2 (The Version included in JDeveloper 10.1.2.1.0 for Java 1.4). I have to use this version of struts on the project I am working on because it is the only version compatible with our OC4J Container (Oracle Containers for Java) that runs on the version of our Oracle Application Server we use, that cannot be upgraded due to the reason that we run other programs that cannot be updated on it.

I am developing a form for orders to be entered in line by line in text fields. I have a button for the user to add more rows to this matrix of orders being entered. This dynamically generates <input type="text" name="somebean">. After the page submits it is mapped to action class myForm which extends the ActionForm class from the struts api. This form gets and sets beans.

I have a bean mapped in my struts config for testBox which maps to an ArrayList:

<form-bean name="myForm" type="org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm">
<form-property name="testBox" type="java.util.ArrayList"/>
</form-bean>

I have these as my getter and setter methods for the array:

public class myForm extends AcitonForm{
List testBox = new ArrayList();

public List getTestBox(){
return testBox;
}

public void setTestBox(List value){
testBox = value;
}
}

Now... here's the challenge. How do you configure this to catch the text fields in the ArrayList bean?

When you try to do this on your JSP page:

<input type="text" name="textBox[0]">

Tomcat will give you an array out of bounds index, which makes sense to me; however, I need to know how to enter in data to an ArrayList bean from a textbox. Is this even possible? If not by struts action mapping, could this be done by using AJAX? I do not know. I have spent three days trying to figure this solution out and googled to the end of the earth. I hope someone here can help because I am out of ideas.

Thank you,
Dantevios