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14.2.6 Adding support to Edit mode
To add support to Edit mode in our portlet, proceed as follows:
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| Edit the web.xml deployment descriptor.
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Expand Dynamic Web Projects | MyFirstStruts.
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Double-click Deployment Descriptor: MyFirstStruts.
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In the editor, go to the servlets page.
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Select myFirstStruts.MyFirstStrutsPortlet.
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In the Initialization section, click Add.
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Enter config/html/edit as the parameter name, and /WEB-INF/html/edit/struts-config.xml as the parameter value.
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Under the Welcome pages section, click Add.
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Enter html/edit/welcome.jsp as the new welcome page name. This will be the welcome page in Edit mode, for a html markup.
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Save the file and close the editor.
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Double-click Portlet Deployment Descriptor.
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Expand Portlet Application.
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Select myfirststruts.MyFirstStrutsPortlet.
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In the Markups section, click under Edit and select Fragment. (Figure 14-10).
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Figure 14-10 Adding support to Edit mode
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Save the file and close the editor.
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| Add a new struts module to support the Edit mode.
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Note that you pointed to the same resources file that you had already created.
Figure 14-11 New Struts module wizard
At this time, a new Struts module should appear under the Struts icon, as shown in Figure 14-12.
Figure 14-12 The new Struts module
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| Create a new Web diagram for the Edit mode.
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Right-click Web Diagram.
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Select New | Web Diagram.
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Enter editMode as the Web diagram file name.
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Place four Web pages in the diagram. Name them html/edit/welcome.jsp, html/edit/index.jsp, configured.jsp and notConfigured.jsp.
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Place two action mappings in the diagram. Name them saveConfiguration and editConfiguration.
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Place a form bean in the diagram. In the Form bean attributes window that appears, enter userBean as its name and request as the scope.
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Create the connections between the components; these are:
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welcome.jsp to editConfiguration.
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editConfiguration to userBean.
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saveConfiguration to userBean.
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Local forward named success from editConfiguration to index.jsp.
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index.jsp to saveConfiguration.
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Local forward named success from saveConfiguration to editConfiguration.
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Local forward named user_not_set from saveConfiguration to notConfigured.jsp.
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Local forward named user_set from saveConfiguration to configured.jsp.
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Right-click anywhere in the Web diagram. Select Change the Struts module association.
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Select /html/edit in the list. Click OK.
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Figure 14-13 The Web diagram for Edit mode
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