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I’ve had my fair share of debugging Struts related problems over the past few years. I was doing some research awhile back and found this page that discusses some Common Struts Errors. I really think this will be useful to anyone that works with the Struts framework in Java. It really can save a ton of time when you have no idea what some of those sometimes cryptic error messages mean.

Have you ever wondered why the hardest bugs to spot are sometimes the easiest to fix? Me too. I’ve encountered many situations where I knew what I needed to fix but had no idea how to fix broken code. I’d look and look forever in frustration for a solution and finally I would find it. The solution was usually that I would add maybe just one or a few lines of code in the right places and the functionality of the application would work as expected.

It’s crazy to spend hours tracking down a problem and to realize all i had to do was use a few lines of code. I guess that’s just the way it works some time.

Have you ever wondered about some of the possible issues that face IT workers? You really should listen to those that have been in IT for much longer than yourself. These older (old fossils as the under 30 crowd would think of them as) workers bring a vast amount of knowledge regarding how IT works. I’ve always wondered why sometimes the under 30 crowd always seems to bash these older workers. Everyone can learn something from these older workers.

I would also advice a caution to those that do listen to those older workers. Everyone has their own biased views because of where there from and where they’ve worked. Just because some man or woman  50 years old has trouble finding a job and can’t move that doesn’t mean there are no jobs available in a certain field. Remember age is just one of many factors in finding a job in IT but not the total factor.

I regularly read forums like Dice and constantly see people complaining that IT is dead and there are no jobs. Remember everyone has a motive whether good or bad.

Respect your senior IT workers we’ll all be there at some point.