nested objects in ActionForm [was: Where to do TextConversion?]

2003-06-23 Thread Dan Allen
Hookom, Jacob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Your ActionForms should never be passed to your DB layer... ActionForms should have strict String attributes and in your Action, take care of mapping your Business Beans to your ActionForms and visa versa-- two similar, but separate objects.

Re: nested objects in ActionForm [was: Where to do TextConversion?]

2003-06-23 Thread Dan Allen
A comment was made a few days back that this dicussion (of DTOs vs ActionForms) comes up every two weeks. I think this is for 2 reaons. The first is that it is clearly the most confusing part of Struts. Second, I don't think there is a single definitive example of this yet. I believe that Matt