Struts MVC design (was:: help with a newbie topic-prepopulating a form)

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I pity the poor noob who asked the original question! Little did he suspect that he would spark off a dialog on advanced MVC design. This debate has come up before and for me, it is one of the weak points of struts - I remember a couple of years

Re: Struts MVC design

2005-07-06 Thread Rick Reumann
Michael Jouravlev wrote the following on 7/6/2005 5:03 PM: The action class provides the event contract, while the action form does the dirty work. Well in this case the struts-config file would provide the contract and you could simply use one ForwardAction for everything. You've

Re: Struts MVC design

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now there is talk of Struts in the future containing ActionCommands which can be substituted in place of Actions, and strung together in a chain, and presumably can perform View-Controller

Re: Struts MVC design

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/6/05, Rick Reumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Jouravlev wrote the following on 7/6/2005 5:03 PM: The action class provides the event contract, while the action form does the dirty work. Well in this case the struts-config file would provide the contract and you could simply

Re: Struts MVC design

2005-07-06 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 7/6/05, Michael Jouravlev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now there is talk of Struts in the future containing ActionCommands which can be substituted in place of Actions, and strung

Re: Struts MVC design

2005-07-06 Thread Dakota Jack
Shale may purloin the name Struts but their is no Struts to Shale at all. Mark G. may or may not harm Struts (I don't think people are so stupid as to let that influence their career decisions actually) but Shale will kill Struts utterly, if Shale, which is very unlikely, should be chosen to