I've been lurking on this list for a while, and I finally have time to look hard at Struts for a web application that I'm working on. I have a coupla questions.. 1. This first question I found reference to in the archives (http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg18281.html) but couldn't find an answer. In the application I'm working on the business logic is already written and is being added to by another team (it's supporting other applications besides the web). So I've got a whole slew of JavaBeans (100+) already written for me, but now I'm facing the task of wrapping them in ActionForm subclasses, cursing under my breath that it isn't an interface. I understand that the purpose of the ActionForm is as a buffer..perform validation and all that. But my beans already contain the validation! Besides, performing the validation in the ActionForm is effectively tying business logic (data validation) to the web framework dontya think? Rules such as no invoice numbers under 1000 (Ted's example) should be handled by the business logic, and given my situation (probably a common one), this logic needs to be shared between applications. I can't go into the server system and fit ActionForm into the class heirarchy, but I sure could have thrown an interface in there. Input on this is appreciated. 2. This has to have come up before, but I couldn't find any references. All of my JavaBeans map to persistent components, all of which have id's. I've written some actions to display lists of these components and the like and everything works great. I also started to try the Add/Edit/Save pattern, which occurs everywhere in the app, and I'm having a problem with the Save action. The issue is that I need to retrieve the object from the datastore (using the id) *before* the ActionForm is populated with the request parameters. What I'd like is to have the bean populated from the database, and then any parameters that are present on the request object set on the bean, then persist. I can't figure out how to initialize the bean to the datastore before it gets to me in the Action. If I make the ActionForm session scoped, it works great...is this the common practice? If so, how is cleanup performed? IE, user clicks to Edit Widget 137, my EditWidgetAction class populates WidgetForm and sticks it in the session, the user never submits the form and goes to a different section of the site. How would I get the bean out of the session? Any help is appreciated. -jon
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