Jin, thank you very much for your help. A question based on something you said...
> Your Xform would do basic validation > ie format/type checking. The business validation of > the values would be done in Xmaintainence. I've actually not implemented the validate() method of the (struts) form (XForm). In some cases the format and type of a field requires knowledge of the business logic. All of the fields in XForm are strings but do represent other data types. There is a date field for example. Should XForm really "know" that the takenOn field is a date? Should XForm really "know" that the takenOn field is required? I'm not so sure that XForm should know anything like that. Maybe it should but what if we consider a different, more complex, field. Maybe my XForm needs to collect a WidgetId field as input. WidgetIds are very specific to my business and the format and type of them probably differs from your WidgetIds. If I have XForm check the format or type of the incoming WidgetId then my view component knows a little too much about my model. Again, thanks for your help. Kevin. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
