On Wed, 09 Oct 2002, Will Jaynes wrote: > It seems to me that the problem is that you are trying to do everything > in the JSP without benefit of using an Action. The Action is where this > kind of processing should take place. (Some developers would push it > further, into Business Objects, but they would still be called from the > Action.) In the Action you have access to both the form and your DB bean > and can handle interactions between them. > > So, I would make the entry point of your application an Action, not just > a JSP.
Will, thanks for your quick response. Ok, that is a good idea. I will try it. You are right: My way is not the struts-like way to do it. But still: Is there no way to get data out of the FormBean? Somewhere in my JVM this FormBean exists, and somehow I should be able to read data from it. Or am I wrong? > Markus Herrmann wrote: > > Hello Struts users, > > > > i have a JSP whose form data is stored in an ActionForm bean (as it should be). > > The ActionForm bean sets the form data to default values (e.g. it gets todays > > date). The JSP not only displays the form, but also displays data which comes > > from a DB bean. In the JSP I use the <jsp:useBean> tag to associate the DB bean > > with the JSP. The DB Bean connects to a DB and writes the data into a Vector, > > which is displayed by the JSP using the <logic:iterate> and <bean:write> tags. > > No problems until now. > > > > Now i would like to select the data in the DB bean depending on two propertys > > in the ActionForm Bean. How can my DB bean read propertys from the ActionForm > > bean? > > > > Note that until this point no user intaraction happens. This JSP is the entry > > point of the application. I decided not to post the whole code here, because i > > do not think that this helps to understand and answer my question. Correct me > > if i'm wrong. > > > > Thanks for any help in advance! > > > > Markus Herrmann, Germany > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
