Thanks for you help! The DTOs make perfect sense. I've a question though.
> The forms validate method > should only perform simple input validations such as; > make sure the field is > not empty or that it has enough characters etc. The knowledge of the format of a field or whether that field is required or not is dependant on the business logic. Consider two separate forms at two different companies both collecting the first and last name of a user. At company A the first name is required but it is optional at company B. The requiredness of a field depends on the business. Both companies also have a WidgetId field input by the user but you can be pretty sure that the format of the WidgetId at company A is different to that of company B. The format of the WidgetId field is dependant on the business logic. For these reasons, I haven't been using the validate() method of the ActionForm or the Validator plugin which both sit at the View level. Instead I use the Model classes to validate all input. Comments? Again, thanks for you help. Kevin. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ MVC-Programmers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netbean.net/mailman/listinfo/mvc-programmers
