At 6:39 PM -0400 2002/07/03, Hal Deadman wrote:
>Does using the forward attribute mean creating a global forward for every
>action submitted to by a form? If so you end up with lots of global-forwards
>that map directly to actions, so why not just use the action URL?
>
>This seems like just one more level of indirection that has to be followed
>when you are trying to figure out which action class a form is submitting to
>(if you are looking at the JSP, not the HTML source).
well, you wouldn't have to follow it... no one is suggesting breaking
the API. Also, I think the perspective here is that by using a
forward, you're essentially making a contract between the view and
the controller, so that the person working on the view theoretically
wouldn't need to know which action class a form submits to. They'd
just have an assurance from the controller developer that there will
be a forward with a given name that does the right thing when a form
is submitted to it.
I think Craig's point is that the path mappings also constitute an
API, which is true. I just don't quite understand why it's a problem
to use "forward" in html:form if it's not a problem to use it in
other places in the html tag library (link, etc).
Joe
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