problem getting ActionError to display properly

[plambert]

Would someone kindly clear my confusion? I have overridden the

validate(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request)

method in my ActionForm and have successfully gotten it to check the items in my Form bean. However after having

ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();

errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, new ActionError("myText&quot);
errors.add("test",new ActionError("myText&quot);

The jsp page I return to shows "Validation Error(s)" with a horizontal line below but none of my text appears.

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks in advance!

 

[plambert]

Figured it out. I didn't realize that the item that I specified in quotes in the ActionError constructor had to be a reference to an entry in my application.resources file. I thought I could simply put in anything and it would display what I put in. The 'anything' would need to be in a second (or third...) argument in the constructor and the reference in my application.resources file would need to look for those other entries by using {0}, {1}, etc for each item I wanted to add in the constructor.

Hope this helps someone