Yes, but there are a few (undesirable) side effects (your beans being repopulated from the request).
Search the archive, I seem to remember a rather lengthy thread re-spawning in several different forms (subject names) about this very topic. JM > -----Original Message----- > From: Emerson Cargnin - MSA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 7:58 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: calling an action as a forwards > > > Have someone used an action calling other other action as a forward??? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerry Chike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:32 PM > Subject: Re: BC4J versus Struts > > > > Hi Yibing, > > I don't believe there are any conflicts between the two > frameworks. There > is some overlap in regards to the presentation tier e.g. BC4J > includes a set > of JSP Tag libraries that enable you to easily access the BC4J tier. > However, if you look at the examples that JDeveloper generates, you'll see > that BC4J's Controller (of MVC) is "hard coded" into the pages, and some > generated scriptlets - further coupling the model, controller and > view. You > might be able to use the Struts framework specifically for it's Controller > (avoiding Struts' ActionForms) and leverage BC4J's Tag Libraries for > everything else, but I believe there's a better design. > > > > It's difficult to compare the two frameworks, since BC4J covers a much > broader range of enterprise issues such as O/R mapping, transactions and > distributed computing. These areas are BC4J's major strengths. In > regard to > distributed computing, BC4J is "tier independent", so you could deploy > BC4J's ApplicationModule (your app) to a Servlet Container, as a > stand-alone > Java application, or into an EJB Container (wrapped as a Session Bean). In > regard to transactions, the framework will handle very complicated caching > algorithms, and can be configured to handle transactions in a number of > different ways depending on your requirements e.g. no locking, optimistic > locking, and pessimistic locking. In short, BC4J is a very > complicated, but > very powerful framework for handling business logic. > > > > On the other hand, Struts is a simple, light-weight > implementation of the > MVC design pattern - specifically for the Servlet piece of the J2EE > specification. In fact, a much closer comparison could be made > with Oracle's > new MVC framework called UIX which is remarkably similar to Struts, but > unlike Struts the View part (of the MVC) is de-coupled to allow > either JSPs > or XSLT/XML. Note: Currently, Struts is heavily coupled with > JSPs, but there > are a number of open-source groups which have implemented (or are > implementing) different presentation technologies e.g. Velocity templates. > > > > In short, if I were to use both Struts and BC4J together, I > would leverage > each for it's strengths i.e. use Business Components for Java (BC4J) for > handling business logic, and use Struts for handling the presentation tier > e.g. > > > > <<Presentation Tier>> <<Business Tier>> > <<Database Tier>> > > Servlet Container Servlet/EJB Container > Oracle Database > > --------------------- ----------------------- > ------------------ > ---- > > Struts (MVC) BC4J (MC) Persistent Data > (M) > > > > > > Simply map BC4J's Views to your ActionForms (UI JavaBeans), or have BC4J > return your data as XML (it's built into the framework) and apply > your XSLT. > > > > Cheers, > > Gerry > > > > At 04:51 PM 05/06/2002 -0400, Yibing Li wrote: > > >Folks, > > > > > > We are going to develop our web application using Struts as our Web > > >Framework > > >and JDeveloper as the IDE tool. As Oracle provides a J2EE framework > called > > >Business > > >Components For Java (BC4J), embedded in Jdeveloper, most likely we will > also > > >use that. My question to the group is: > > > > > > Given Struts is a web framework and BC4J is a J2EE Framework, are > there > > >any conflicts > > >of using both in the same application? How about even in the same tier > Web > > >tier )? > > >If the answer is yes, how can we make them work together. > > > > > >If you understand both and have used them, please give me a reply. > > > > > >Thanks a lot. > > > > > > > > >Yibing > > > > > > > > >-- > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[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]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[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]>
