On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Kief Morris wrote:
> I'm making my first Struts application, and in keeping with MVC
> I want to load all of my JSP pages through actions: the Action sets
> up the data the JSP page needs to display.
>
> It seems that the <action> tag in struts-config.xml requires a form
> bean for the name="" attribute. But what if I have a view which is not
> a form, merely a view of data? A form bean shouldn't be necessary
> for this, so how do I structure this?
>
If you have an action that does not need a form bean, simply omit the
"name" attribute. This will cause the automatic processing that Struts
normally performs for form beans to be skipped.
Note that all of the <bean:xxx> and <logic:xxx> tags work quite well on
arbitrary JavaBeans in any scope. Therefore, a common design pattern will
be to call an Action that goes and collects all the needed information,
and exposes it as one or more beans, followed by a forward to the JSP page
that uses those beans to create the dynamic view.
> Kief
>
>
Craig
