I'm working on a plug-in which addresses some of the concerns you have. The plug-in is supposed to:
1. define dyna action forms based on your DTO without you having to create <form-bean> entries in struts-config 2. allow you to initialize your dyna form using values from a DTO you provide 3. handle the formatting of the values to be shown and the parsing of the formatted values upon submission So if your form's field closely matches your DTO, you won't have to create an equivalent form bean, nor would you have to write code to copy properties from one to the other, nor would you have to write code to format properties like dates or money. Well, for the most part anyway. It supposed to be lightweight (so far looking like it'll be a jar file below 50k, not that that's the only criteria). Then again, it still works with form beans underneath. You just won't have to deal with them directly in your actions, while still being able to format/parse the data (and validate through validator). --- Giovani Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don�t worry Hubert....well, i will try explain more detailed.... > > I have a jsp page with the following tag > > <html:text name="projeto" property="dtIniRealProjeto" maxlength="10" > size="10" /> > > Ok, the attribute "name" means that my object has the name "projeto". It�s a > DTO that an action class > put in the request. > Well, the html:text will render an input text catching the value from the > "dtIniRealProjeto" attribute of my object > "project". But this attribute is of Calendar type. Then, what appear in the > browser is the instance representation of > this calendar, no the date values. So i want to format this values before > presentation and make the html:text show > the formatted data. > > That�s the problem, one solution could be using the action form but if i > have a DTO with the values, why must i have to > copy all values back to Action Form? Don�t you thin this is time-consuming, > cpu-consuming, memory-consuming? > > I think the major question is: > How can i use the html:text to get value from an object (DTO or Action Form) > and FORMAT it???? > > I have seen in the archives many questions and no real answer. > > Thanks > > Giovani Salvador > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hubert Rabago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:27 PM > Subject: Re: html:text and converter > > > > Yes, that last msg wasn't much help. Maybe if you provide a bigger > picture of > > the situation, other folks can give you alternatives. Or at least help > convince > > you of the advantages to using AFs. > > > > --- Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps it's time to consider using AFs. :) > > > > > > > > > --- Giovani Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The problem is that i am not showing the data with the action form. I > use > > > > the html:text to read > > > > directly from my DTO and, unfortunatly, no conversion is made. :( > > > > > > > > > > > > Giovani Salvador > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Hubert Rabago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:14 PM > > > > Subject: Re: html:text and converter > > > > > > > > > > > > > You'll have to format the data that you're passing to your > ActionForm. If > > > > you're > > > > > extending from ActionForm (but not using a Dyna form), perhaps you > can > > > > format the > > > > > data in your setField() method, or before returning from a > getField() > > > > method. > > > > > > > > > > --- Giovani Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all... > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to force that html:text call a converter? My > problem is > > > > that i > > > > > > am trying to format > > > > > > a date before showing it with html:text tag and a possible way is > to > > > > pass by > > > > > > the StringConverter class, > > > > > > for example. By debugging the jakarta commons beans i perceveid > that > > > > this call > > > > > > is not made. Any tip > > > > > > on how to force passing by the StringConverter? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Giovani Salvador > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! 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