Doing this with a link duplicates information and in its essence is not robust. You have your actions, your data, and your views. In Struts, you need to add forms. So, you have your actions, your forms, your data, and your views. You need to sit down and decide what you need to build so that your business logic flows easily and efficiently.
On 5/4/06, Rob Manthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Jouravlev wrote: > On 5/3/06, Rob Manthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > If you care about where your action is called from, >> >> Only so much as to have a page for the server to send back to the user - >> ie: the page that they were on - not some other interim page. > > > So we have two concepts: [... etc etc ] > Um, I see what you are saying. You call an action which has to support > the page you call it from... Yes, this is another way of doing things, > but I would say, not very popular. "ah ... you speaka my language" mm. the key actions in question reside on 4 pages that contain a fair bit of data and provide the user with product-specific views of their data. so I have to be able to undertake the action and return to the same page with an update with as little screen flicker as possible (it's a mimic screen for an industrial control system - scada via www). > Either you stick source page name into link parameters, or you set it > on the server during previous call. But then if a user goes back using > browser's Back button, your page on a browser and your remembered page > on the server won't match. ah, well, that's where my "stale-page trapping, multiple browser window tracing, self-inflicted framework" kicks in and solves a few problems for a change ... :) one for the boy ... > This is why sticking page name and other > related info into a link is more robust. A link by definition is > always in sync with the page it is defined in :-) buring that into my neuronal ROM at present ... > Michael. Thanks again Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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