FWIW, according to the book "professional site programming" which I started to read recently, the recommended design pattern is to do "basic" validation in the ActionForm (is a number, is a date), and the more business-oriented validation in the Action (is a positive smaller than 10, is a date AD).
Ted should be able to correct me on this :) tomK > -----Original Message----- > From: Dick Starr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: woensdag 23 januari 2002 21:46 > To: struts-user > Subject: Should all validation be done in the Action class > instead of the ActionForm class? > > > I'm new to web apps / struts and wanting know if there is any > performance > reason to do initial validation in the ActionForm class (via > validate="true"). It seems to me that all validation should > be done in the > Action class since then all the validation is in one section > of code and > since the Action class gets called anyway. Also, I heard that > there are > tools to automatically generate the ActionForm classes, which might be > another argument to not stick any additional code in them (in > case you want > to re-generate them). Just wondering ... > > Thanks, > > Dick Starr > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-user-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
