So the answer, in code, from within my ReviewAction class is the line:
ContactForm cForm = (ContactForm)
request.getSession(false).getAttribute("contactForm");
where "contactForm" is the name in the struts-config.xml file for the
form-bean:
<form-bean name="contactForm"
type="edu.cccs.energizer.ContactForm" />
Can't believe it was that simple.
At 01:34 PM 2/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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
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