On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:51:10 -0600
Dan Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two more comments:
>
> In the second tutorial, you are preparing the employeeForm using the
> SetUpEmployeeAction. In doing so, you run
>
> employeeForm.setDepartment("2");
>
> Shouldn't you instead set the default department selection in the
> form reset() method?
I initially I did have that in the reset method, but then I wanted to
show how you could use a SetUpAction to set up stuff in your bean if you
wanted to. I also was lazy and didn't feel like explaining the reset
method:)... you're right though I should have probably just kept it
there.
> In regards to the discussion on using Tokens for the forward mapping
> keys (such as "success" and "continue") you may also want to note
> that doing so allows you to have two tokens point to the same
> definition. In short
>
> Tokens.SUCCESS_KEY = "success";
>
> Tokens.CONTINUE_KEY = "success";
>
> So you can really play with the means of your Action class without
> having to bother the Action class. In short the action class
> shouldn't really care what view is choosen or its meaning, it just
> deals with the general workflow, such as
>
> success
> failure
> continue
> redo
sigh, yea, the more I think about it I actually really should just use
constants there and I'll include your explanation. I'm pissed I didn't
include it from the start.
Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I appreciate it.
--
Rick Reumann
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