On Mon, February 14, 2005 1:47 pm, Hubert Rabago said:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:40:41 -0500 (EST), Frank W. Zammetti
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I probably forwarded it to the list as well, since it was an open
>> discussion.  Hope that wasn't a problem :)
>>
>
> No problem at all, in fact I'd like it to go to the list to add to the
> discussion.  I haven't seen it on the list yet, though.

And I've been replying to so many messages today I can't say which I
mistakenly didn't send to the list or vice-versa :)

>> On Mon, February 14, 2005 1:26 pm, Hubert Rabago said:
>> > Once we say "You can use POJOs as action forms", people will start
>> > using their actual business objects.  They'll start to skip
>> > EmployeeForm, and specify Form directly.  When that doesn't work,
>> > they'll start to complain.  In a way, we kinda have this already today
>> > with BeanValidatorForm.
>>
>> Fair point.  There's always a fine line between how much flexibility you
>> give to a developer at the cost of giving them too much rope to hang
>> themselves :)  I generally fall on the side of "let'em blow both feet
>> off
>> if they want".  But, it's absolutely a valid concern when your talking
>> something as established as Struts.
>>
>
> Same tendency here as far as giving the developers flexibility.
> However, in this case, I think it'd be hard to make a case for a POJO
> form bean that only supports Strings.  At least with ActionForm, the
> distinction was clear.  If we're gonna put POJO support in Struts, I'd
> vote for supporting it the way we'd want to use it - with full support
> for typed fields.
>
> Hubert
>

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