Related to this -- I know I should know this (it's late, so I have an excuse) but I don't think we have a a way for a Model (or Action, but Model is more important here) to be kept across a session. Formbeans have a nice property in Struts that you can do a "wizard" type UI with little effort because the FormBean can be saved and re-used. We should probably get this in WebWork as well, yes?
-Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anoop Ranganath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:26 PM Subject: [OS-webwork] formbean vs. action > So coming from other frameworks, I'm surprised to see that while > allowing FormBeans, WW2 doesn't encourage them anymore than just > putting the properties on the action. While I can't see a problem with > it, there's a voice in my head telling me to run away screaming. > > As my last post mentioned, Hibernate is being used as the persistence > mechanism, so persisting the action w/properties is equivalent to > persisting a bean. I do have a few reservations. > > 1) How would you deal with two different objects in a form. I'm > guessing save all of their properties avoiding name collisions and then > mapping them into the two separate object. Essentially the same as > using formbeans, but relieves the template from having to know about > the underlying object model. > > 2) I can't think of a situation off hand where this would happen, but > what if two actions that worked with the same business entity both > needed to persist it. Even if they extended the same base class, I > would either have to specify mappings for both of them into the same > table or chain them together and allow only one of them to persist. > (This might be more of a Hibernate question). > > To sum it all up, is there any reason to _not_ use a formbean? It > seems the only reason to not use it is because you don't have to. Does > that sound right? > > Anoop > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
