Maybe a tiles controller for the form information at the top? > -----Original Message----- > From: Art Vandalay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:39 PM > To: Struts Mailing List > Subject: More Than Form On A JSP > > > I am developing an architecture for the rest of my > development staff to use on a new J2EE project > starting next month. > > I have the following situation: > > A JSP contains a form which allows the user to lookup > a list of information. For example, if you enter an > SSN the JSP will display some demographic information > about the person associated with the SSN (first name, > last name, etc) along with a list in an HTML table of > payment history. > > The HTML table displays a subset of data, say 10 rows > at a time. The total number of rows could be much > higher. The table comes with buttons to navigate > through the next and previous rows in the table. > > The point is the user can display the "previous" and > "next" items in the table while the demographic > information at the top remains displayed. > > The HTML table is built using a custom taglib I've > developed. I also wrote a custom Action, called > NavigateAction, which handles all the logic associated > with clicking "previous" and "next". I've wrapped the > HTML table in a form so that Struts can direct it to > NavigateAction. NavigateAction gets the next 10 rows > of data, puts them into the request object, and > forwards to the same page we came from. Finally, the > taglib builds the table from the data stored in the > request. All that is working fine. > > All this allows my developers to reuse this HTML table > logic on any JSP that has a similar appearance (static > data at the top and scrollable data at the bottom). > > There is a problem however. After the page is > redisplayed, the top part of the page contains no > data. All of it has been lost because the form > associated with it is out of scope (it was scoped to > the request). > > I don't want to scope the forms to the session as they > will accumulate as the user navigates through the > application, plus the data in them will be stale if > the user returns to a JSP they were at a while ago. > > Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this? > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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