[Actionframework-users] bug in ActionServlet ActionRuntime.java

[Mark D. A. <md...@di...>]

in ActionRuntime.java there is this line:
    actionConfigFile = new File(servlet.getClass().getResource("/" + configFilename).getFile());

which will give NullPointerException if getResource fails (remember getResource
just returns null on failure; it does not throw an exception).

btw, in order to get the velocity conversion to work, this will work in build.xml as an
alternative to mucking with the ant installation:

   <taskdef name="templateConvertor"
classname="org.actionframework.engines.velocity.convert.TemplateConvertorAntTask">
      <classpath>
        <pathelement location="lib/TemplateConvertor.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="${Velocity.home}/velocity-1.3.1-rc2.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="lib/jakarta-oro-2.0.5.jar"/>
     </classpath>
   </taskdef>

Speaking of Velocity.home, I think it'd be easier in build.xml and build.properties to 
just ask for Velocity.jar or Velocity.classpath, rather than hardcoding assumptions about
the jar file name.
I had to edit build.xml to make ugly things like this:
   <available file="${Velocity.home}/velocity-1.3.1-rc2.jar" property="Velocity.All"/>
      <available file="${Velocity.home}/velocity-1.2.jar" property="Velocity.All"/>
      <available file="${Velocity.home}/velocity-1.1.jar" property="Velocity.All"/>
just to get it to run with my recent version of velocity.

-mda