Joe - I agree that html:form is being too aggressive in its requirement of a form bean. I believe there is already an open BugZilla ticket for this issue:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24356 Your reasoning is a little different than the reasoning in the ticket, so it might be useful to include your email as a comment on the bug. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Germuska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:32 AM Subject: why are form beans required for html:form? > I'm working with an old Struts application recently ported to a > Struts 1.2 nightly. One land mine that keeps popping up is that > pages using the <html:form> JSP tag which used to work now no longer > do. I have one specific case where a developer chose not to > implement an ActionForm class (probably because the app also > pre-dated DynaForms and/or he was being lazy) so now the JSP throws > an exception when it comes to the html:form tag and can't find a form > bean associated with the destination action. > > Now, I'm all for encouraging people to use Struts the way it was > designed to be used, but in this case, the form has no HTML fields > which are pre-filled from a form bean, so it seems pushy of the > html:form tag to insist that this is an error condition. > > Would it make more sense to have the individual input tags complain > if they can't find a form bean, and have html:form be more permissive? > > Joe > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them > the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and > nobody thinks of complaining." > -- Jef Raskin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
