> -----Original Message----- > From: Manfred Wolff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: AW: Re: Struts + EJB ? > > I use Struts, Tomcat, JBoss, XDoclett, PostgreSQL, Ant, Log4J > in a 5 "person > year" project (not large but not small also) and it works really fine.
Manfred, Are you using Xdoclet <strutsform/> tags? If so, could you explain how you are using them with complex forms that manipulate many beans? So far, I have been using the simple case of a single entity bean mapping to a single form, but this doesn't scale to more complex forms. Last night I was considering changes to Xdoclet allowing for a single form name to be referenced by multiple entity classes, and the form that is generated would have value objects for all of these classes in a containment therein. Then, for every method-level @struts:form-field tag, the corresponding encapsulation would be generated into the form object. The encapsulation would simply be a call-through to the correct class and method of the contained value objects. If the FormAction is considered as a part of the controller, the pattern is maintained. But your email has me considering that this might encourage bad design, that in fact the form should be sent in a valueobject down to a session, and have the session deal with the business logic of how to manage the form contents. This would imply that your designs are using @struts:form-field tags in the session object and having it do all of the entity manipulation. Interested in your thoughts... Brian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
