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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29565

ActionForm bean should be HAS-A not IS-A

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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-06-14 23:19 -------
There is substantial debate in the mailing list archives over whether ActionForm 
should have been an 
interface or not.  There are arguments to the effect that making it an interface would 
have promoted 
some dubious programming practices.  I think that this suggestion bumps into some of 
the same 
arguments.  (These arguments mostly happened "before my time" and I don't have strong 
feelings 
about them, but some do.)

Also, it is pretty easy to use BeanUtils to copy properties from an ActionForm to a 
domain object.

For these reasons, I'm changing this from a bug to an enhancement request.  Still, I 
think it's justifiable 
to argue that Struts would work better for people if it was different, so this should 
stay open and garner 
some more opinions, possibly some votes, and ideally, some patches...

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