Auto-population of non ActionForm beans?

["Duffey, Kevin" <KD...@BUYMEDIA.com>]

Hey Craig,

Have you added support yet for that little problem I was having..so that
instead of a bean redoing the same get/set methods as my entity bean, I can
just pass through directly to the entity bean? That way we don't have to
implement ActionForm, we can just have any old class be used by the
auto-population feature?

Thanks.

Re: Auto-population of non ActionForm beans?

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

"Duffey, Kevin" wrote:

> Hey Craig,
>
> Have you added support yet for that little problem I was having..so that
> instead of a bean redoing the same get/set methods as my entity bean, I can
> just pass through directly to the entity bean? That way we don't have to
> implement ActionForm, we can just have any old class be used by the
> auto-population feature?
>
> Thanks.

BeanUtils.populate() can do this for you -- either from a Hashtable of values
or directly from an HttpServletRequest.  This is what the Struts controller
servlet uses to do the auto-populate trick, so you'll end up with the sames
results if our entity bean has the same properties.

Craig McClanahan

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