hi guys In one of mail sent to this mailing list I read
<quote> "form bean properties should generally be strings, and you should do the conversion to int (or any other datatype) later". </quote> My questions is there any specific reason why it should be done this way. I understand that it is necessitated by the HttServletRequest object but has there been any discussions of having properties with different/custom data types in a ActionForm apart from just Strings. Having properties with different data types (e.g Date, BigDecimal) would help in faster development of code in the model as the data type conversions wouldnt need to be repeated multiple times (assuming my action class delegates the actual business functionality to a series of modelers), plus it would also help in doing business rule validations (e.g start_date < end_date etc) I understand nothing prevents me from having any other data types in a ActionForm. If people have been doing such things what has been the strategy If this has been already discussed can you please point on the threads in the mailing list archives. Thanks for your time. Anand
