Action Forms are DTO objects. They are not your model/domain/business objects. Struts is the only framework (historical design) that forces you to use String objects in the Form/DTO, but that's not a bad thing. It's a container to accept user input, which is all from the Internet transmitted as strings. You can of course have non-string values in the form, but those should NEVER accept input -- and it's because the input needs a place to reside as Strings before the validator can validate them. Otherwise you would blow up with bad input when the conversion fails.
Now this will change with Struts 2.x; there is an automatic type converter and you can submit into model/domain/business objects. That's a good thing too because Spring, WebWork, Tapestry, JSF, and all other modern frameworks allow this. Paul __________________________________________________ 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]
