I don't see the need for a new type of Action, there is no limitation to what methods you ADD to an ActionForm, so you may choose to do your business logic implementations in the ActionForm itself and then the various Action::execute() methods would just marshal the arguments and call the methods on the ActionForm that is passed in. We do it that way whenever we need to, but we also use helper classes that have the methods to act upon the data in the ActionForms and call them from the Action Classes or from Axis Web Services. I am quite sure Drew would agree with me that if you prefer WebWork or Tapestry use it, don't try to make Struts more like them.
Michael Oliver CTO Alarius Systems LLC 6800 E. Lake Mead Blvd, #1096 Las Vegas, NV 89156 Phone:(702)643-7425 Fax:(702)974-0341 *Note new email changed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jouravlev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:28 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Form-Action combo WebWork actions are somewhat like Struts Action and ActionForm combined: they can transfer request parameters and can be stateful, like ActionForm, but they also can process input events, like Action. I created several rather generic action classes, like DialogAction or CRUDAction, and now working on WizardAction. In all cases I need to process events in DispatchAction style, and at the same time I have session-scoped data, which I store in ActionForm. So, sometimes Action classes do nothing more, than just receive input command, and channel it to actual handler in the ActionForm. I think that Struts should have WebWork-style action, which can do both: keep data and process events. What is opinion on that? What is common pattern to introduce new features in Struts? Should I just submit the patch to Bugzilla and encourage people to vote? Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
