"Best practices using value objects" I still have questions regarding best practices, the use value object and of the <beanutil> package. How would you convert a value object to a form bean if a property of the VO is a list of other object that would need to be converted to a form? Here is an example of what I am trying to do. I have value objects coming from the business tier.
VOSchool String address Vector students VOStudent String name int status boolean isPresident Vector courses I have a page with a lists of all students names, a radio button to indicate if he is the president and a checkbox that changed the status is selected. I think I need a StudentForm with all the info from the VO plus a boolean isSelected property. My SchoolForm need all info from the VO plus a president property. - How can I best reuse by VOs? - Should I add a property to the VOs? How? - Are the forms dynamic forms? - Should I copy all attributes form the VO to a form? - Do I need to write a converter for all my VOs, VO to form and form to VO? I think it is a very common problem but I was not able to find a pretty solution nor an example on how to do this. Thanks Stephan
