I am trying to find a good way of using the data sources within a Stuts application.
Supposing I have some Manager classes (like Facades); each of which have methods which perform a set of related use-cases, which abstract complexity of communicating with the beans. The idea being that a Struts Action class would use the manager classes to perform the detailed operations, and therefore not only can a Stuts Action class use the facades (manager classes), but any other class which needs to perform the same functionality can also use them (e.g. it may not be an HTTP request). My manager classes are created in a sub-class of ActionServlet and stored in the servlet context for use by Struts actions. If it is not a Struts application which is not using them, then they are created in some other way. With regards to the DataSources, supposing my manager class needs to use data-source(s). I don't want my manager classes to be tied to HTTP, so I don't want them to look in the ServletContext for the data source, which is where Struts stored them. Is the best solution, to create a List of the DataSource object in my sub-class of ActionServlet, then when I create the managers, just pass in the list for them to use. That way, if another type of application which needs to use the managers (which isn't using Struts), it would create the DataSources itself, put them in a list, and, similar to my ActionServlet, pass them in to the manager classes when it created them. If anyone has any ideas for me, or if this is a good way of doing things, please reply. Also as a second question, I have been looking at the JavaDoc's for the JDBC Connection Pool (from bitmechanic.com), and cannot find a class which implements javax.sql.DataSource to use within Struts, is this correct? Many thanks! Shaun. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
