If they were all sessions scope form-beans, then they would all be stored in the session context under the name given in the Struts config.
Often, developers will use one ActionForm object under one form-bean name for something like this, and just expose part of the object on each page. The Struts Validator supports this idea directly with a page attribute. In your case, this would mean that you could start with the ReviewActionForm, and just fill that out page by page. The form-bean is an element in the Struts configuration file that the ActionServlet uses to create and populate ActionForm objects. The ActionFormBean represents the properties in the configuration file, akin to the ActionForward and ActionMapping classes. So, the ActionFormBean object tells the ActionServlet what ActionForm object to instantite. (And boy do we regret calling everything Action* =:o) -Ted. Sarah Farrell wrote: > > Short story: > > I need to retrieve existing ActionForms (ActionFormBeans?) from the Controller > Servlet or from the current Session. (I also do not understand the difference > between an ActionForm object and an ActionFormBean object). > > Long story: > > I have this web application with about 10 forms on it. Each form has it's own > Action and ActionForm associated with it. When the user is done with filling > out the last form, I'd like them to go to a "review" page that shows all the > fields from all 10 forms on it in text only. Something that they can print out > easily and keep for their records. But I can't just use a bunch of > <jsp:usebean> or <bean:write> tags in the review.jsp because I've got to do > some text manipulation/conversion to nice English from database values, etc. > that ends up being way too much logic in the jsp. > > So I thought I'd create a ReviewAction and a ReviewActionForm. I wanted to > call the ReviewAction first, have it get all the properties from all of the > other ActionForm/Beans and set all the properties/values in the > ReviewActionForm. Then have the review.jsp just display the properties of the > ReviewActionForm. > > ? > > At 12:34 PM 2/23/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >I'm not sure if we know what you are trying to do =:o) > > > >Sarah Farrell wrote: > >> > >> All I can say is that I was really tired last night. Because this certainly > >> does not work. So I still could use some help..... > > > > > >-- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US > >-- Developing Java Web Applications with Struts > >-- Tel: +1 585 737-3463 > >-- Web: http://husted.com/about/services -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
