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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Noel Ribette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 12:08 a.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Newbie question about form beans
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> There has been discussions about this on the mailing list. I
> suggest you have a look at the archive at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user%40jakarta.apache.org/.
Look for "EJB" and specially "communicating with EJB".
Jean-Noel
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: Newbie question about form beans
> Hi,
> I'm new to struts, we're planning to use it to access an EJB tier. I'm
> bothered by what seems to be an inefficient and difficult to maintain
> pattern were using as a consequence:
>
> A large portion of what our app does is pretty standard - getting a record
> out of a database, presenting it to the user in form(s) to be edited, and
> then saving the changes back to the database. The structure can be viewed
> something like this:- the entity EJB has a set of attributes, with a set
of
> accessors, and some other stuff. To reduce network traffic we use
> ValueObjects, which have the same set of attributes and accessors. This
will
> get passed into the struts application, where it interacts with a form
bean
> which has, oh look!: the same set of attributes and accessors, and some
> methods to do other stuff.
>
> Surely it should be possible to define a single bean for attributes and
> accessors, and wrap it with the functionality it needs at different
stages.
> I can see my way through doing this in the EJB tier, but not when it comes
> to struts - since my form bean already extends ActionForm and multiple
> inheritance is unavailable.
>
> Please somebody telling I'm totally missing the trick here!
> jim
>
>
