Struts2 AnnotationValidationInterceptor

Question

I am having a frustrating time implementing struts2-jquery-plugin-3.6.0 into a Struts2 2.3.14.3 website. I recently updated the Struts2 version to 2.3.14.3, and all its depende

Answer 1

I had a similar Problem and want to post my findings:

You are behind a proxy. Start your server with

JAVA_OPTS='-Dhttp.proxyHost=your.proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=your.port -Dhttps.proxyHost=your.proxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=your.port'

Then you will get better error messages.

You'll find out that your Doctype in validators.xml is wrong it must be

<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC
   "-//Apache Struts//XWork Validator Config 1.0//EN"
   "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/xwork-validator-config-1.0.dtd"> 

The Doctype in your *-validation.xml files has to be

<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC
    "-//Apache Struts//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"
    "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd"> 

Note the difference between those two and don't mix it up, like I did.

hth