Typical Struts development team and distribution of tasks?

2005-03-11 Thread Lawrie Gallardo
Do most companies developing Struts applications tend to employ Web Designers, or is it more common for Struts development to be undertaken by a team consisting solely of Java Developers (who therefore need strong knowledge of HTML, Struts Tags, JSTL, CSS, JavaScript, etc as well as J2EE)? Alon

Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms?

2005-03-18 Thread Lawrie Gallardo
I'm still relatively new to Struts, but I can't help but feel that validation would be better performed by Action classes rather than ActionForm classes. It seems to me that, ideally, you want 1. Validation, 2. Transformations (ie convert separate day, month and year HTML fields to Java Date ob

Re: Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms?

2005-03-18 Thread Lawrie Gallardo
it there, by the way. Jack On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:17:39 +, Lawrie Gallardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still relatively new to Struts, but I can't help but feel that > validation would be better performed by Action classes rather than > ActionForm class

Re: Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms?

2005-03-18 Thread Lawrie Gallardo
ounder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Fri, March 18, 2005 12:17 pm, Lawrie Gallardo said: > I'm still relatively new to Struts, but I can't help but feel that > validation would be better performed by Action classes rather than > Act

Re: Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms?

2005-03-18 Thread Lawrie Gallardo
m doing this I'll have the thought at the back of my mind that I could be doing them much less painfully and efficiently with another framework...). Lawrie. From: Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" To: "Lawrie Gallardo" <[EMAIL

Re: Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms?

2005-03-18 Thread Lawrie Gallardo
be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms? Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:16:21 -0500 Lawrie Gallardo wrote the following on 3/18/2005 12:17 PM: Now if this is the case, would it not be better to have the ActionForm as basically a dum data holder and have the validation method in the Act

Re: Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms?

2005-03-18 Thread Lawrie Gallardo
From: Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" To: "Lawrie Gallardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, user@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: Wouldn't validation be better performed by Actions rather than ActionForms? Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14: