I have nearly the same think but I use to create properties as Integer which avoid me to make a call to Integer.valueOf()
Am I wrong ? Sincerly Xavier > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Andrew Hill [mailto:andrew.david.hill@;gridnode.com] > Envoye : jeudi 31 octobre 2002 11:42 > A : Struts Users Mailing List > Objet : RE: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in > ActionForm ? > > > Technically speaking, the ActionForm IS a bean. > It's purpose is to represent the users input (which you can > validate and if > necessary redisplay for correction) before transferring in your action the > (validated) values (with appropriate type conversion) to your business > object and vice versa. > Your BO itself may well be a bean too - such as your "BookBean" perhaps? > The actionForm and the business object will of course have a very similar > (often identical) set of properties, however they serve different > purposes - > for example you will note that while your BOs beans would have various > property types (ie: int for pages etc...) you ActionForm will > *usually* just > be strings (some folk use bools for checkboxes though) - a result of it > being a place to store the string data submitted in the request > or read from > the BO ready for display in the form... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Biel [mailto:Marcus.Biel@;bmw.de] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 18:20 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MVC Design: property in ActionForm or Bean with property in > ActionForm ? > > > What's better: > > To have a bean let's say "BookBean.java" > that has got a String title, author, pages > > and an Actionform that uses this BookBean, > > or is it better to have an ActionForm > that has a String title, author, pages. > > Imho it's much faster and easier to have your properties in your > ActionForm, > > but I bet according to the MVC design its recommend to use Beans. > > > Right ? > > > thx, > > marcus > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
