This kind of thing is handled automatically, and very robustly in the Spring framework. The Spring framework also supplies good integration with Hibernate, and a very cool and innovative configuration system. You should check it out. The next web app I build will use Spring.
www.springframework.org Later Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hibernate mailingList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:58 AM Subject: [Hibernate] Patch to automatically load hibernate objects from an HttpRequest submitted > I've submitted a patch to JIRA ( > http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key =HB-357 > ) to alleviate some of the drudgery of web work with hibernate, > specifically the need to set all of your fields in an object from an > HttpRequest coming back from a form. I do this all the time in our > projects and it gets really boring, especially with big forms. Anyway, > with this patch you can just do this in the servlet: > > HttpFormUtil.loadObject(request, hibernateObject); > > Any fields that are named properly in the request are automatically > loaded into the hibernate object, null values are ignored so you can do > this with forms that only have part of an object's fields. > > The patch contains a change to BasicRenderer to make constants in the > generated class files, and the HttpFormUtil mentioned above. > > It's a simple improvement, but it's already saved me lots of time, I > hope someone finds it useful. > > Matt > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel