form bean types

[Young, Wayne]

I'm working on a "standards" document for struts development at work and
have a question. 

I've seen references on the mailing list that fields on form beans
(descendants of ActionForm) should only be java.lang.String if you want them
to automatically populate your form fields on your .jsp page.

Is that a true statement? I'm thinking, NO.

Wayne
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