Hi,
Action classes are explicitely meant to be called from a from submit or a link.
The class that does the db-access can be normal Java-class, which is called from
the Action classes and then the result can be added to the request context by the
Action class or pass the request as a parameter to the db-access-class and have it
put its output to the request-context.
The second version is not as clean in terms of design as it links a backend
(=service) class to the frontend (read servlet-context). Better is the first
approach: have the db-class return a collection object which is added to the request
context by the action-class.
hope this helps
Alexander
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Subject: calling action classes
Hi
I don't know how to call my action class in order to output the result of a
database request.
I don't want to use an explicit call like a form submit or link.
The database request should be made on the fly and the result encapsulated
in a bean which is added to the request context.
Does anyone know a technique ???
Thanks, Stefan
