Put the form which contains the properties you want to reuse in a session scope, and then from the JSP use this form.
Marco ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Saraiva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:27 PM Subject: RE: How to access the ActionForm instance from within the JSP > OK, here's the deal. I've got a JSP with a form that's included in another > JSP. When the imbedded JSP gets called, I want the fields in the form to be > populated by the attributes of the object it represents. The form object > doesn't get called before the JSP is instantiated. I'm looking for a way to > do this. > > -- > Best regards, > Carlos Saraiva > Raleigh, NC > http://www.carlossaraiva.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marco Tedone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 4:21 PM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: Re: How to access the ActionForm instance from within the JSP > > > > > > Ok, which functionalities do those method perform? Have you thought to > > personal taglibs? The ActionForm should contain only getter/setter and > > validation methods. *Work* methods on data could be easily > > grouped somewhere > > else. The logic of the framework is request -> ?action(form) -> > > presentation, thus doing something like presentation-> form > > doesn't seem to > > me the right way to perform some logic in your application. IMHO, data > > should arrive to the JSP already formatted and ready to be > > displayed. What I > > see as normal, is to have scope attributes to manage from within your JSP; > > to avoid code you can write custom tags. > > > > Marco > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Carlos Saraiva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:13 PM > > Subject: RE: How to access the ActionForm instance from within the JSP > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I need to call methods of the ActionForm instance from within > > > > the JSP. Can > > > > > someone please tell me how to do this? I've tried defining > > a bean, but > > I > > > > get > > > > > a different instance of the class. > > > > > > > > > > > Which kind of methods do you need to call? > > > > > > > > Marco > > > > > > Methods written by myself. > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > Carlos Saraiva > > > Raleigh, NC > > > http://www.carlossaraiva.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
