Yes. This is a normal approach. ActionForms are used only if you want to pre-populate data. i.e If you have to show default values in a text field you can pre-populate the Action Form and forward to a JSP.
You can also store a Collection directly in one of the scopes and show that but Custom beans like this are useful because they can be manipulated quite well with the tag handlers. Mohan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: simple question Hi all, I think I have a relative easy question. I have a J2EE application which has some entitybeans. I want to display the values of these entitybeans in my JSP pages (using Struts). I have made value objects of the entitybeans. In my ListAllCategoriesAction.java, I do something like the following: Collection allCategories = mySessionFacade.getAllCategories(); DisplayBean displayBean = new DisplayBean(); displayBean.setCategories(allCategories); request.setAttribute("categories", displayBean); return mapping.findforward( SUCCESS ); As you can see I'm using a special bean (displayBean) to pass the categories to my JSP page. In my JSP page I use the <logic:iterate> tags to iterate through te collection and display the proper information. Is this a normal / good approach? Or do I have to use ActionForm classes for this purpose? Thanks a lot, Harm de Laat Informatiefabriek The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
