Is DynaActionForm extendable ??? - What's wrong with my approach?

[Martin Kuhn <ma...@gmx.at>]

Hi STRUTS-experts!

I have Value-Objects's with complicate structure's. 

This VO's have a generic structure and are ready for
presentation and also for update. 
I don't want code many extra-layer's to handle my VO's
with struts. 

I want a dynamic solution where I can use my VO's.

Is it possible to extend DynaActionForm to access my VO's?


I tried extending DynaActionForm and override 
get and set-Method's of DynaActionForm and
getDynaProperty and so on.
Also I implemented DynaClass im my class.

I pass my VO to my "SpecialDynaActionForm"
and access it in get and set-method's.

But the behavior is really strange.
It works only sometimes :-( 
(I use Tomcat 4.04). Sometimes when I start Tomcat and
use my web-application this approach work's well.
But sometimes I get a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException 
when the Struts-Framework try to create an instance
for my SpecialDynaActionForm.

Has anybody a hint for me?

Is it clever to take this approach?

TIA 

Martin



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