Hi Vijay, Comments intermixed.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:51:16 -0500, Vijay K Dasari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a "Best practice" of using the ActionForms. We are using > lot of Forms(both ActionForm and DynaActionForms) in our application. All > these Forms share some common properties and some validation logic is also > common. > > Currently we are using the Inheritance in the ActionForms, to solve this > requirement(Like we have a Super ActionForm and all the other ActionForms > extend that Super ActionForm). > > I would like to know, is there any possibility with the DynaActionForms. I > mean, we configure the properties of DynaActionForm in the > struts-config.xml, is there a possibility that we can say that one > DynaActionForm extends other DynaActionForm ? (with out replicating the > properties in all DynaActionForms) > > As the struts-config.xml is an XML file, i guess we can imitate this by > using the XML INCLUDES( we include the super DynaActionForm properties in > the child DynaActionForms). Is there any configuration possible in > struts-config.xml ? There is, as I said just yesterday, in response to the exact same question, asked by Amit Gupta, currently no mechanism to facilitate this. Yes, you could hack your XML with includes - there's not an auto-magic way to do it though. > I wonder what are the advantages of DynaActionForms(whose properties are > configured in struts-config.xml) over ActionForms(which are Java Classes > created as JavaBeans) except the creation of extra java classes ? Primarily, the advantage I see is that you don't have to code multiple sets of classes (1 for data transfer - 1 to use in your code that has all the real types). > Thanks, > Vijay. -- Eddie Bush --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
