Hi All, Though I still have much existing material to read in the STRUTS mailing lists (thanks again for your help Jon!), I have come across three interesting solutions to dealing with automating or centralizing the translation of data from Action Forms (presentation layer) to Value Objects (business layer) and back again. Here are the three approaches:
Translation Pattern: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jsppatt/?dwzone=java&dwzone=ibm Using Property Editors: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/11/07/jsp12.html?page=2 Using Code Generation: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2001/jw-1102-codegen.html The current one that I have seen referred to in the mailing lists is using Reflection (which still may easily solve this in most cases) or some type of mapper driven by XML setup info. Here are the mailing list threads that I have found on it so far: http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg18315.html http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg18373.html (an answer from Ted related to msg18315) http://archive.covalent.net/jakarta/struts-dev/2000/10/0135.xml http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg05437.html Two other related patterns that I have found are the: View Helper: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/restricted/patterns/ViewHelper.html Dynamic Value Object: http://www.theserverside.com/patterns/thread.jsp?thread_id=2722 I was curious what people thought of these solutions and what other solutions they had come up with. This is an area that I really want to automate and that I really want to have a couple of solutions for (since it could generate a great deal of code that I REALLY don't want to have to rework if I find that the solution is no good). Thanks for your thoughts and comments! Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>