RE: Best way to handle this in Struts/MVC ?

The question I have is when generating a List to display the beans is it really that bad to use the actual Data Transfer objects beans in the display (vs a List of the DynaFormBeans)? The reason I ask is it seems like a lot of overhead to convert a Collection of data transfer objects into a

RE: Best way to handle this in Struts/MVC ?

I put data storage beans that need to be displayed into the request or session and use bean:write and logic:iterate on the JSP. I don't see the sense in creating extra objects targeted to display; just keeping the get/set methods generic (return a Date, not a formatted Date String) should be

Re: Best way to handle this in Struts/MVC ?

The JSTL offers formatting tags ... and it is a standard. Requires Servlet Spec 2.3. Rick Reumann wrote: On Thursday, December 12, 2002, 1:43:49 PM, Andy wrote: AK I put data storage beans that need to be displayed into the AK request or session and use bean:write and logic:iterate on the AK