[FRIDAY] Oh well

[Mark Galbreath <ma...@qat.com>]

Thanks, guys for the interesting discussion on the underpinnings of Struts
and general Java programming, but I gotta go (Friday night and all...don't
want Andrew to out-do me in 24 hours).  I remain unclear on the usage of
DynaActionForm in JSP, but perhaps Ted will address that in depth in the
next book.  In the meantime, in the absence of clear direction, I guess I
will continue to use ActionForms, which, in my opinion, suck, for large
apps.

Have a great weekend!  For you guys on the West Coast, blow me!  I'm
drinking a beer!  :-)

mark



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Re: [FRIDAY] Oh well

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

I've updated the documentation with some of the points we passed back 
and forth Friday.

Used in a JSP in the conventional way, switching over to DynaActionForm 
is transparent. You can't contruct them yourself, but it is 
unconventional for a Struts JSP to construct its own ActionForm. That 
responsibility should be left to the controller. Used in an Action, the 
references to the DynaActionForm properties do change, since the 
dyna-properties are stored in map and only appear to be properties 
through reflection. But if you are passing off the DynaActionForm to a 
business bean (as intended), this shouldn't matter.

DynaActionForms good: I don't use ActionForms except to pass the data 
along to another bean.

DynaActionForms bad: I use ActionForm properties to implement my Action.

As a working reference, the MailReader example application uses 
DynaActionForms.

-TEd.

Mark Galbreath wrote:
> Thanks, guys for the interesting discussion on the underpinnings of Struts
> and general Java programming, but I gotta go (Friday night and all...don't
> want Andrew to out-do me in 24 hours).  I remain unclear on the usage of
> DynaActionForm in JSP, but perhaps Ted will address that in depth in the
> next book.  In the meantime, in the absence of clear direction, I guess I
> will continue to use ActionForms, which, in my opinion, suck, for large
> apps.
> 
> Have a great weekend!  For you guys on the West Coast, blow me!  I'm
> drinking a beer!  :-)
> 
> mark
> 
> 
> 
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Ted Husted,
Struts in Action <http://husted.com/struts/book.html>



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