Hello, I am still getting up to speed on struts and might be missing something quite obvious. I have read on Ted Husted's site that (to paraphrase) you should *not* link to .jsp pages, but instead link to the Actions. Ted even goes so far as to suggest putting .jsp pages beneath WEB-INF/ so they are not available to be requested directly by clients.
I can understand his reasoning, however, I have a practical question. First I must give a little background: I am developing a very simple CRUD app, and am working on the Create portion. When a user clicks a link for "Create Record" it links to /createRecord.do. The user should be able to fill out the page, and then go to the next action /createRecordConfirm.do, where the values are shown but not editable. From /createRecordConfirm.do, the user can either click the "Create" button to add a new record, or click the "back" button and go back to the form and make changes, then continue on as described. This createRecord.do action has a bean which includes validate(), since I want to show validation errors to the user for correction as soon in the process as possible. However, when the user first clicks the link for /createRecord.do, the bean's validate() method throws a bunch of errors, since the form has not yet been filled out. Is there a way to check for a totally blank form ( if form == null doesn't work ) or some better way to do this? Or should I just link directly to the JSP, since this works as I need it to. Also, if someone knows of a good (and easy to install) example CRUD app, I would love to see it. I was not able to install artimus (database problems) and sonic doesn't seem to do things the *correct* way (they link directly to JSPs). Thanks! Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
