Struts on iPlanet Web Server 6.0?

2003-01-27 Thread Trevor Morris
We are in the process of looking at other options after WebLogic 7 has failed to meet our needs. I want to go with Tomcat, but management says otherwise. They want to use the antiquated iPlanet Web Server. Can anyone confirm that Struts 1.1b3 works on iPlanet Web Server 6.0? Or 4? I have heard

data types on the travel between DB and view -- best to makeeverything Strings?

2003-01-22 Thread Trevor Morris
Where and when do you do data conversion between the DB, Business, and View levels? When you grab data out of the DB and set them in your VOs, do you set dates as Dates, ints as ints, etc? Or is it easier to just leave everything as Strings and pass them around. The majority of data in web apps

Any Struts-based calendar examples out there?

2003-01-22 Thread Trevor Morris
I have to create a calendar page to display meetings, etc. As you know, anything date-related is not the easiest task in the world. I have found a JSP-based calendar, but it would require some extensive rework to get rid of all the scriplet code. Short deadline + overworked programmer = trying

Pre-population of forms

2003-01-21 Thread Trevor Morris
Is it better to store these Lists in the form or send them in request scope individually? I have put them in the form, but it seems somewhat wrong since these Lists are extraneous information and not representative of the actual form. That is, they do not capture back any info from the user. They

Use ActionForms for view pages as well?

2003-01-21 Thread Trevor Morris
I am having trouble deciding if I should use my ActionForms as beans on view pages. The problem is, my view pages require so much more info than my action forms. e.g. my form to insert new article: ArticleForm{ private String title; //corresponds to textfield private String author; //correspo

How closely to map VOs/ActionForms to relational DB?

2003-01-21 Thread Trevor Morris
I have a heavily normalized DB (55 tables) which means that I have to do some serious joining to get any data. I have been tempted to almost recreate the relationships that exist in the DB within my VOs and ActionForms. Make a VO for every single table, and just nest them as they exist in the DB.