RE: Handling Date objects in ActionForm gracefully

2004-03-26 Thread Freddy Villalba Arias
As someone with good experience in MVC-based applications but a newbie to Struts, what I understand from this discussion is that the recommended implementation would have to comply, at least, with this guidelines: - The conversion code is encapsulated in a separate class (I suppose one converter

RE: Handling Date objects in ActionForm gracefully

2004-03-26 Thread Freddy Villalba Arias
) and therefore doing it ONLY in the model would be limited. Very much IMO and I'm not MVC guru, but that's my understanding. On 26 Mar 2004, at 09:43, Freddy Villalba Arias wrote: As someone with good experience in MVC-based applications but a newbie to Struts, what I understand from this discussion

RE: Handling Date objects in ActionForm gracefully

2004-03-26 Thread Freddy Villalba Arias
provoke. Cheers Mark On 26 Mar 2004, at 10:51, Freddy Villalba Arias wrote: Mark, didn't mean to be pedantic... just wanted to prevent everybody from going through all the (obvious / basic / simple) details and just go to the important stuff. Neither am I an MVC guru. In any case, thanx everybody

[OT] JTA, JDBC and data persistence

2004-03-26 Thread Freddy Villalba Arias
Hello everybody, An off-topic question (it's Friday, I hope you accept it!): I want to implement a Business Object Model on top of many DAOs. Those BOs will be - obviously - related to each other (mainly 1:n and m:n relationships). I must implement this in such way that, when - for

Templating

2004-03-25 Thread Freddy Villalba Arias
Scenario: Sort of a templating system, based on the usual design patterns: Template, Attribute-Value, etc... (don't remember the exact names, but I'm confident you all know what I mean) :-) There are different entities whose (type's) properties are stored as attributes that are grouped

RE: Refresh parent window on popup submit with old params to parent

2004-03-22 Thread Freddy Villalba Arias
I'd say: Popup submits info. Info ges processed. Popup gets reloaded. On popup reload, invoke refresh on parent, then close (in that exact order). Parent gets fresh info. There is only one race-condition with this approach: The background operations launched by the popup's submit action (I

RE: Hierarchical Lists

2004-03-18 Thread Freddy Villalba Arias
I'm envolved in a Project that will be basically lots of this stuff. This CSS approach seems nice one, but it doesn't look like feasible if the hierarchical structure is too complex and / or it's just too big (then we would have an awfully heavy page). Everytime I face the same problem, I come to