Re: Development approach question

Hi Vlad, What ever results in the least/simplest/fastest code! The way I look at is that you have a special 'ViewSupport' layer in your app that provides sorted copies of the data for presentation. This is seperate from the main business logic. You can supply the data as maps/sets/lists

Development approach question

Hi, I have a basic design-level question to ask of those who are using the struts framework. The question concerns how data from the database get retrieved into the 'web-tier' beans of the application when table joins are involved. One approach is to nest objects. e.g. say we want to display all

Re: Development approach question

If known for nothing else, I may go down for creating the infamous Monkey/Banana bean model example :) I don't think that one object per row is much of an overhead for the benefit it brings. You are going to have to marshal your results anyway, so you may as well create separate objects.

Re: Development approach question

Thanks Aaron, Just to make sure, I believe the paragraph below is in favour of not 'denormalizing'. I.e. the approach you're suggesting is to return a list of Monkey objects where each Monkey holds a reference to its Bananas. (Hey, it's an odd example, but it's more fun than the old standby of

RE: Development approach question

Do you know where I can find a really simple example using the nested tags? I get the general idea that you're supposed to describe a path to the nested object using '.' separators, but I can't seem to find any docs or tutorials on using these tags.