struts w/ej

[Paul Beer <pa...@backsoft.com>]

i have followed some old threads about this but see no resolution to how to
map the struts form bean to EJB value objects; they all seem to allude to a
mysterious an non-existent struts 1.1.  is it recommended to do validation
from within the form bean and then create a value object w/the data for the
EJB or to do the validation in the value object?  Seems like duplicate work
to create a form bean and a value object for an ejb, but if you dont , then
the html form is dangerously coupled with the functioning of the EJB which I
am trying to avoid in my application design.  Can people give some real
world examples of this ?  And on a technical note, if you use the struts
form bean to instantiate and populate a value object how is it passes to the
action?  are people just putting it in the http session ?  sample code would
be helpful.

-paul

Re: struts w/ej

[Dmitri Colebatch <di...@nuix.com.au>]

I'm not sure when other ppl do but I create a form bean which takes the value 
object in the constructor and delegates.  That way its easy to update the 
bean with a bulk setter.

cheers
dim

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:54, Paul Beer wrote:
> i have followed some old threads about this but see no resolution to how to
> map the struts form bean to EJB value objects; they all seem to allude to a
> mysterious an non-existent struts 1.1.  is it recommended to do validation
> from within the form bean and then create a value object w/the data for the
> EJB or to do the validation in the value object?  Seems like duplicate work
> to create a form bean and a value object for an ejb, but if you dont , then
> the html form is dangerously coupled with the functioning of the EJB which
> I am trying to avoid in my application design.  Can people give some real
> world examples of this ?  And on a technical note, if you use the struts
> form bean to instantiate and populate a value object how is it passes to
> the action?  are people just putting it in the http session ?  sample code
> would be helpful.
>
> -paul

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