All, I'm on a team that's trying to decided on a best practice for passing on populating our value objects that get passed to our business layer. We currently have three techniques we've though up and I'm wonderful if anyone has a strong opinion on which one may be the "best" and why.
The basic problem is that the user enters information into a form. The form is a presentation object, and should not be passed to the business layer. So it's information needs to be in a presentation-agnostic interface before being passed to the data layer. 1) Have the action class copy information from the form to a value object. Have a view helper copy information from the value object into the form (for pre-population) 2) Have the form implement a value-object-like interface. The business layer accepts objects with these business interfaces. This way it is possible to pass the form objects to the business layer without the business layer knowing that they are presentation objects. 3) Have the form simply include value objects as properties. Then use the nested taglibs to populate the value objects. This way the Action can just pull the value object off directly and pass to the business layer. A view helper can just set the value object on the form. -jdr --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
