Well the question was, why to use ActionForm if a POJO will do it es well? And keeping current object in session isn't a solution to all problems...
Just to give you an example, in our current application we have about 5000-7000 active session on each webserver. We have tons of object, so if we would keep _EVERYTHING_ in session, what amount of ram the server would need? Regards Leon > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Michael Jouravlev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 19:20 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [POLL] What do you use action forms for? > > Oops, I don't know why did I mention going back again. I > guess, I am too fixated on that. I am sorry. > > Anyway, just to reiterate, I have a "current object" in the session. > "Current" means "currenty being used" whatever that means for you. > Object has an ID. I pass this ID to any action which uses this object. > It can be edit action, or view action or delete action or > store action. > > Returning to the book example. I don't know what the authors list for > :) But whatever, I would have two objects: book itself and > authors list. For the first page I would have two references > in the form bean: > to book object and to authors collection. When I select > author from a collection, its name would go to the book object. > > So, book is a "current object". I can edit it, view it, > persist it, delete it. It sits in the session, updated. If I > want to display a book on the next page, I just show the > book, which already has author in it. If I want to edit it, I > show it on edit page, and load the author collection again. > > And, returning to my object of fixation: if I go back to the > book edit page, the book will have author preset, simply > because I display the object's fields, not because I take > efforts to prepopulate form's fields. > > Right, this is another thing that I do not do: I do not > prepopulate form bean's fields. > > On 5/12/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Summing all up, I can describe the approach I use: > <...deleted...> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
