What exactly is an ApplicationTool?  Is this part of Turbine?  Are there any
docs on it?

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:34 PM
To: Turbine Users List
Subject: Re: turbine "best practice" for handling forms


Why is using the HttpSession object better than writing a session-scoped
ApplicationTool (i.e. pull tool)?

Jonathan Carlson
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Weaver, Scott wrote:

>By all means!
>
>Scott
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Linwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:53 PM
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>Subject: Re: turbine "best practice" for handling forms
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>Do you mind if I include this in a best practices doc?
>
>jeff
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Weaver, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'Turbine Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:14 PM
>Subject: RE: turbine "best practice" for handling forms
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>>data.getSession() returns the javax.servlet.http.HttpSession object.  Use
>>HttpSessions getAttribute() and setAttribute() to get and set persistant
>>values across multiple requests.  Alternatively, You can also store things
>>in the User.setTemp() and USer.getTemp().  I prefer session objects
>>
>opposed
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>>to hidden form values both from an ease-of-use and a security stand-point.
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Nathaniel Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:02 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: turbine "best practice" for handling forms
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>>There are a series of screens in my application that are used to
>>complete a task.  This is fairly typical: the data from the first screen
>>is parsed & stored, used by the second form, and the third step is to
>>perform an action using the input from the first 2 screens.
>>
>>How should the data be persisted after the first screen parses the form
>>parameters?  Is there a session object?  Is the RunData instance
>>persisted for more than a single HTTP request?
>>
>>Right now the second screen parses the form parameters and the template
>>generates another form with those values from the first screen as
>>"hidden" form parameters..
>>
>>In my other web development work I usually persist form parameters in
>>the session because it's the easiest thing to do... Is this "kosher?"
>>
>>Thanks
>>--
>>Nate Reed
>>Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
>>Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Raytheon)
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>(626) 744-5528
>>(626) 744-5506
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