The zero argument and serializable requirements are for there for persisting and re-instantiating beans. I guess without the zero arg constructor it's not *technically* a bean but I won't tell if you don't ;-)
As long as you follow the bean naming conventions for setters & getters you'll be OK. Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: June 29, 2003 5:23 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Sturts - Custom Tags and limitations > > > In order to make our classes bean compliant we would have to change our > constructors so they dont take parameters right ?? That is a pretty > severe limitation, or are you saying just make your method calls bean > compliant? > Ben > > Steve Raeburn wrote: > > >Struts (and JSTL) will be happy with a LinkedHashMap as it is a member of > >the Collection class hierarchy. > > > >I would not recommend with custom tags unless you need custom > functionality. > >If you really can't change the existing method names you should consider > >adding additional methods that are bean compliant (they can just > delegate to > >the existing methods). You should consider deprecating the old methods so > >they could be removed in future. > > > >If you can't touch the existing classes at all (why?), think about using > >adaptor classes. > > > >Steve > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Benjamin Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: June 29, 2003 4:33 PM > >>To: Struts Users Mailing List > >>Subject: Sturts - Custom Tags and limitations > >> > >> > >>Greetings, > >>Before I go charging off and make a stack of custom tags, I thought I > >>would post to the group to make sure I am heading in the right > direction. > >> > >>We are devloping an applicaton and we have created the business logic > >>that is able to fit a number of UI (web, Local application etc). A > >>number of our classes have methods that are not bean compliant > >>(addCategory for example). Many of the functions also return objects and > >>datastructures like linked lists and hash maps. As I understand it > >>struts is happy to use beans, but if I am using an object and make a > >>method call that is not bean compliant I am going to have to create my > >>own tag library to deal with this. > >> > >>For example, I have a bean function that returns a linked hash map, in > >>order for me to itterate through this and display an output I will need > >>to create my own tag library right? > >> > >>Any advice appreciated. > >> > >>Regards > >>Ben Stewart > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
