It's Friday, it's late, and I'm answering my own posts....
replacing "newInstance()" with "getInstance()" does the trick.
At 10:02 PM 2/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I was trying out Ted's code, slightly modified, in an Action class:
>
>protected ActionForm createActionForm(String path) {
> ActionServlet as = this.getServlet();
> ActionMapping mapping = as.findMapping(path);
> String name = mapping.getName();
> ActionForm form = null;
> ActionFormBean formBean = as.findFormBean(name);
>
> if (formBean != null) {
> String className = null;
> className = formBean.getType();
> try {
> Class clazz = Class.forName(className);
> form = (ActionForm) clazz.newInstance();
> } catch (Throwable t) {
> t.printStackTrace();
> form = null;
> }
> }
>
> return form;
>}
>
>And I noticed in my application that it made a brand new form bean with clean
>values (of course). What I really wanted to do was get the existing bean from
>the controller. I'm going to need to do this for several form beans so I like
>the idea of having a helper method and using the mappings.
>
>Does anyone have some code/suggestions for doing this?
>
>Thanks,
>Sarah
>
>
>
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