Hi, One of the problems with Struts was that if you had a page that requires some setup and this page submits to an Action, then you would not be able to set validate to true on that action because if validation problems occur then Struts will take you directly to the input JSP without performing the setup and your JSP wouldn't work.
A solution to that would be to specify the input of the action as the setup action, which means you're doing action chaining and Struts is not good at that (it will reset your form among other things). The solution of choice for us so far was to call validate() ourselves in the action and if a validation problem occurs then we call the setup method (eventually you start using your action methods as an API which still was not good). Another problematic scenario is the case when you're editing some database record for example. When you go to your setup action for the first time, you will populate drop down lists for example, and then load the existing values from the database to your JSP fields. If the user attempts to save and some problem occurs then in the setup action, you will need to again populate the drop down lists, but you will NOT want to overwrite the user's inputs with the existing data. This is very similar to the first problem, but you would also need to pass some flag to the setup method to tell it whether to copy the data from the database to your ActionForm. Does Struts 2 or even WW 2.2.4 solve that problem in an elegant way? I remember coming across something about using Interceptors for that, but that would mean creating an Interceptor for almost every action of that type. I also noticed that there are some warnings in the documentation against using action chaining in Struts 2 as well. Thanks, Tarek Nabil ********************************************DISCLAIMER******************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and contain privileged or copyright information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use this email or the information contained in it for any purpose other than to notify us of the receipt thereof. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately, and delete this email from your system. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change.The sender shall not be liable for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this communication,nor for any delay in its receipt or damage to your system.The sender does not guarantee that this material is free from viruses or any other defects although due care has been taken to minimise the risk. ************************************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
