If I am not completely off-track it could work like this: In a CompanyProjectDTO include the CompanyDTO and the ProjectDTO as attributes with corresponding getter- and setter-methods.
Then access them in the form like: compProjDto.myCompany.companyAttribute hth Alexander -----Original Message----- From: Leandro Melo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 11:28 PM To: struts jakarta Subject: 1:N relationship - ActionForms x DTOs hi, unfortunatelly i got my action forms coupled with my DTOs . This is a very common disucussion in which i don't want to go to the merits of it right now. I just need a solution for a specific problem, but if this solutions requires going back to the first point, it's ok. I'm used to have jsps that are "coupled" with my dtos, so for a page in which the user regiter data about the company, there's a CompanyDTO object that will transfer the data from the Action to the persistent layer. Also i have an analogue ProjectDTO which transfer data from Action to persisten layer. The page used to register a company has a form bean with fields that matches the CompanyDTO data type. The page used to register project data has a form bean with fields that matches the ProjectDTO. Now, i have a new page for user to input data about the company and it's projects. A better approach would be building a "new" form bean and a new ActionForm with both the company fields and the project fields. Naturally this "new" form bean and ActionForm would like just the same as the CompanyActionForm + ProjectActionForm, so i thought if there's a way i can reuse my ProjectActionForm and my CompanyActionForm to build a CompanyProjectActionForm without having to go with all the fields one by one for this action Form. Is there a way to do that??? So i would have an CompanyProjectActionForm "composed" by two other ActionForms, instead of having to write a whole new CompanyProjectActionForm. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
