I've created a project that uses Struts, XDoclet and Hibernate and also generates ActionFroms from POJOs. Maybe it'll help.
http://raibledesigns.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=AppFuse Matt -----Original Message----- From: Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:12 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Struts + Hibernate: A few newbie questions about how to get this right? I have spent quite some time working with creating a new web interface on top of an existing database. As we want to eventually change the schema we have decided to put an abstraction layer on top of it, which I am in the process of modelling as Hibernate beans, where Ihave just started dealing with the process of updating information in these persisted beans (previously was read-only), and presenting them with bean:* and the display taglib. I have previously written a search interface accessing the database directly (due to some very complicated where-clauses) using Struts in order to gather the user preferences for refining the search, which has worked well for quite a while. So I am familiar with the basic concept of using a form bean to store the information, and Struts taglibs for creating web-forms to alter this information. Now I want to edit my persistent beans (containing multi-level master-detail information) with a Struts-based interface, and in order to avoid spending time reinventing the wheel, I would like to ask the community first: * Can I use a persistant bean as my FormBean (or would that be asking for inconsistencies), or should I work with a DynaBean and then copy the result to the persistant bean in the end? I will probably need some validation. * If not, is there an easy way to populate such a DynaBean from my persistant bean and vice versa? I would rather not have to write a lot of setXX( getXX()) statements. * I have understood from the struts-hibernate example by Ted Husted that Struts can utilize Hibernate as a plugin, but I did not understand what this implies. Is there a ressource that explains this? Is there any benefit from just using the two packages directly? Any insight would be appreciated :) Thanks in advance. -- Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen Scandiatransplant Skejby Sygehus, indgang 3 +45 89 49 53 01 DK-8200 AArhus N http://biobase.dk/~tra --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
