> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 11:26 AM
> To: Struts Developers List
> Subject: Re: The 'name' and 'type' attributes on the <html:form> tag
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> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Martin Cooper wrote:
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> > Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 11:17:12 -0700
> > From: Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Subject: The 'name' and 'type' attributes on the <html:form> tag
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> > Bugzilla #11330 points out that the 'name' and 'type'
> attributes on the
> > <html:form> tag no longer work. I've been looking at this,
> and a couple of
> > issues came up. In particular, these two values are no
> longer sufficient to
> > locate/create any potential form bean - particularly
> dynamic form beans.
> >
> > However, I believe we need to reinstate the old mechanism
> to preserve
> > backwards compatibility with Struts 1.0.x. Therefore, I
> plan to add back
> > *exactly* the old mechanism for when 'name' and 'type' are
> specified,
> > meaning that this usage will not have any additional
> functionality over
> > Struts 1.0.x, and specifically will not work for the
> creation of dynamic
> > beans. I also plan on documenting these attributes as
> deprecated starting
> > with Struts 1.1 (although there isn't a way to really deprecate tag
> > attributes, as far as I am aware).
> >
>
> +1.
>
> One thing I would suggest is to use
> RequestUtils.applicationInstance() to
> actually create the bean instance for you -- it does the
> necessary grunt
> work to get an applcation class out of the webapp, even if
> struts.jar is
> in a parent class loader.
Yes, I saw that while looking at createActionForm(), and was planning on
using it.
>
> I guess I'd better go back and put support for a <deprecated>
> element into
> our stylesheet too :-).
Already done, I see. Thanks!
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