Another approach to this is to have the form beans simply hold references to the value objects (from the DAO) directly. You can use the nested taglibraries that are now a part of struts 1.1 to access these when building html forms. The slick thing is that when the servlet populates the form before calling execute(), it will actually populate the value objects in the form themselves. It works by default for most data types, including Dates. But you can customize the converters used for just about any data type.
Stu Original message: I am pre-populating a form with information from a data base. Is the following procedure acceptable, or is there another procedure that would be considered a "Best Practice"? Instantiate the form bean in the action class. Instantiate one or more DAO objects in the action class. Call methods in the DAO objects that would take the form bean as an argument and fill up the necessary fields. I understand the need to keep layers separate; however, if I am just trying to fill up the fields in a form, it seems unnecessary to have the DAO objects return data objects and then call a series of "get/set" methods to take the data from the data objects and put it in the form bean. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
