[struts-menu] velocity-tabs example with JSPs in /WEB-INF/jsp, spring MVC/WebFlow

[Bruno M. <Bru...@wn...>]

First of all, I recently switched to Spring MVC/WebFlow, I am a total
noob at Struts-Menu and Velocity, and even though I used to code a lot
in Struts I have done little web development over the last 3 years.  So
I apologize for dumb questions.
 
After successfully building and deploying the example app with
Eclipse/Java6/Tomcat 6, I am trying to incorporate the Velocity Tabbed
Menu example (and later the NiceTabs) into a Spring MVC/WebFlow app
where the JSP's are stored in /WEB-INF/jsp.  I am using the latest
version of the required libraries.
 
I copied all the code to the right places, got the libraries (except
hsqldb, junit, log4j and struts since they seemed unnecessary), did the
necessary Spring things, and the following happens:
 
1) When I load my home page - which does not yet use the tabbed menu - I
get the SEVERE error
"org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find
resource 'menuMacros.vm'", which seems to come from Velocity
initialization.
 
2) When I go to velocity-tabs.jsp, I get a bunch of "unhandled type"
messages right after the debug message "INFO: Velocimacro : added
#menuItem( menu level ) : source = /templates/tabs.html"
 
3) Just before that message I get the error: "SEVERE: Can't find bundle
for base name org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE, locale en_US", probably
because I'm not using struts.jar... but I thought I saw a note
indicating that it was no longer needed.  Perhaps some additional
configuration is needed?
 
Can someone point me in the right direction to fix these issues?
 
Thanks,
 
Bruno