if you need to populate a form, you can do in one action and then forward to jsp, why you need to pre-populate ??
"Curtney Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Greetings everyone! > > > I would like to preopulate serveral forms with default values retrieve from a > database upon application startup or after a successful login by the user. > > I have an approach in mind, however, I am not sure if it is the most efficient > or best approach. My approach is to use a filter that creates and stores in > memory default ActionForms. The ActionForm will contain default values for > select fields (or any other fields) retrieved from a database. The > ActionForms will be stored within the current user session and then controll > will be given over to Struts ActionServlet. > > > Another similar approach would be to register a listerner > (HttpSessionAttributeListener) that would essentially wait for a specific > attribute to be added into the session (i.e SETUP_FORMS) then it would query > the database for neccessary application setup data. > > > I read the message archive, and a few have suggested calling a "setup action" > per request that prepopulates the default values in the ActionForm. This is a > valid approach, but IMHO only for small applications. It just seems that > there will be to much "traffic" going on between the app and the database. > Correct me if I am wrong. > > If you have gotten this far please share your thoughts on this topic. > > Curtney --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
