its created automatically and passed to your action.
There should be a big hubbub in the archives on this topic. I know we talked about it alot a few weeks ago... -----Original Message----- From: ray.offiah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:28 AM To: struts-user Subject: Re: Newbie question on displaying lists Thanks ... I think option 1 is my best bet. But in the struts-config, how do I define the corresponding ActionForm; since I won't be submitting any information, do I really need to define one for this page? At 09:32 09/08/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Couple of ways I have handled this... > >1) Don't go to a page directly (*.jsp), go to an Action (*.do) first to >prep the form and put it in whatever scope you have it configured for >(request, session, etc). Some people don't care for these "preparing" >actions, though. Like any design you have to balance the pros and cons. > >2) The form could directly call your business layer to get the data. I >don't really like this, but have done it for short, static lists before. > >There are probably other ways, I'm sure others have used different methods. > >Tim > > > > > > > > Ray > > <ray_offiah@ya > > hoo.co.uk> > > > > 08/09/2002 > > 09:09 AM To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please respond > cc: > > to > "Struts > > Users > Mailing > > List" > > Subject: Newbie question on > displaying lists > > > > > >Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 09/08/2002 > Retention Category: G90 - > Information and Reports > > > > >Hello there .... :-) > >I'm playing around with struts at the moment (very impressive work), but I >seem to have got myself into a little trouble. > >I'm writing a web application, that lists the contents of a database table >as soon as you hit the page. > >Now so far, I've been working on just submitting forms, which seems to be >Ok. > >But what is the approach, if I have to retrieve information and display it >*before* anything gets submitted? > >Do I build my display page as a form; how do I populate it before >submission? > >If someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great. > >Thanks in advance....:-) > >Ray > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs >http://www.hotjobs.com > >-- >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]> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com -- 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]>
