RE: getting access to the HTTPSession from an ActionForm bea

[Greg Reddin <Gr...@alltel.com>]

I would have to completely agree with Craig on this one.  I would even like to
see the ActionForm "tag" stay in place for the exact reasons he gives.

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Um, I'm not so sure about that one ...

After all, the existence of a validate() method, even one that returns a
boolean, does not necessarily mean that the method does what Struts thinks it
does.  The case with ActionForm itself is different -- it's currently just a
tagging interface with no methods (and even there, it makes me a little bit
nervous, because Struts is already making assumptions about functionality that
cannot be "proven" to be correct if we go back to just Ojbect).  A
ValidatingActionForm is essentially saying "I conform to the contract specified
in the ValidatingActionForm interface's Javadocs."

Craig