Hi, my program compiled OKay. When I ran the application, somehow, the properties of my DynaValidatorForm are not passed from the action class to the business tier and then to the data access tier. Please help me taking a look at what went wrong.
It looks that the validation worked fine: <form-bean name="postForm" type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm"> <form-property name="receiver" type="java.lang.String"/> <form-property name="sender" type="java.lang.String"/> ..... ..... </form-bean> because when I intentionally left several of the text fields blank and submitted my JSP form, an applet got prompted showing something in those fields are required. In my action class (see below), I used BeanUtils to copy all the properties of the DynaValidatorForm to a bean (ThreadBean): DynaActionForm postForm = ( DynaActionForm )form; ThreadBean threadBean = new ThreadBean(); BeanUtils.copyProperties( threadBean, postForm ); I then added a number of properties with pre-defined values to the ThreadBean in the Action class: Timestamp now = DateUtil.getCurrentGMTTimestamp(); threadBean.setThreadCreationDate( now ); threadBean.setThreadViewCount( 0 ); I then called a method in a service class ThreadHandler and passing threadBean as the parameter of that method: ThreadHandler thandler = new ThreadHandler(); threadID = thandler.insertThread( threadBean ); In the ThreadHandler class (see below), I first tried to retrieve the values of those properties from the ThreadBean. I FOUND OUT ALL THOSE VALUES ARE NULL! class ThreadHandler extends ThreadBean { int threadID = getThreadID(); String receiver = getReceiver(); String sender = getSender(); Timestamp threadCreationDate = getThreadCreationDate(); int threadViewCount = getThreadViewCount(); public ThreadHandler() {} MessageDAO md = new MySQLMessageDAO(); public int insertThread( ThreadBean threadBean ) throws MessageDAOSysException, ObjectNotFoundException { md.createThread( receiver, sender, threadCreationDate, threadViewCount ); ..... ..... return threadID; } } __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]