Hi Rick, The Action classes in struts are designed to encapsulate you business logic. In your case to the dynamic look up, the result can be placed in the session or request, then your Action can forward to a jsp that can display this dynamically generated result.
So yes to answer your question, Struts can certainly be used to address your requirements. Hope this helps. Jon Ridgway -----Original Message----- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 July 2002 16:03 To: Struts List Subject: Should I bother to try and handle this with struts? I'm confused how I can/should handle this in Struts... What I need to build (and long story why) is a User Administration utility and where I'm having trouble fitting this in with struts is in regard to the following: Picture a case where you want to give user's certain roles based on certain applications. So you'd have: BackofficeApp [ select options of possible roles ] JoeBlowApp [ select options of possible roles ] DumbApp [ select options of possible roles ] The problem is the list of applications is dynamic so I can't hard code these values into a form bean or in my dynamicActionForm. Currently I'm planning on doing this an old fashioned way where after submission I'll loop through the same dynamic list of applications and pull up the request parameters based on the values I get back. So for example somewhere I'd end up doing: //while loop through applications String appValue = request.getParameter( appNameBasedOnCurrentLoopValue ); //update db for this app name based on value //continue loop Can I have a form bean gather all this data? Or should I just continue to do it the way I'm doing it? Thanks for any comments/help. -- Rick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The contents of this email are intended only for the named addressees and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If received in error please contact UPCO on +44 (0) 113 201 0600 and then delete the entire e-mail from your system. Unauthorised review, distribution, disclosure or other use of this information could constitute a breach of confidence. Your co-operation in this matter is greatly appreciated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
