[Not a developer, but I've been following this because I ran into the date problem early on.] I use BeanUtils.copyProperties to move things back and forth from ActionForms (all String properties) and my DTO's, as shown in the struts-example webapp. At some point I thought needed a Java "Date" object in the DTO (that requirement went away with further development). And the existing SQL formatted Date converter wasn't going to work, my database doesn't understand that format.
What was suggested to me is writing and registering my own Converter with BeanUtils. I don't think I went through with it, but that made perfect sense to me. IMO, Struts shouldn't get involved with Date conversions, that's already the job of Commons BeanUtils. -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University, PA, IRM
