I think there's something to be said though for maintainability when there's only a single well-known object a developer has to go to to populate the screen, form data or not. I personally prefer the ActionForm be viewed as a VO between the view and control, and I don't figure the values it passes only has to be user entry.
It's a fair point about more working populating the form from VOs... either way, not something I'm religious about or anything, just another perspective. Frank -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM/Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of "Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology" (2006, Apress, ISBN 1-59059-695-1) Java Web Parts - http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it! On Thu, March 1, 2007 11:40 am, Christopher Schultz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dave, > > Dave Newton wrote: >> --- Christopher Schultz wrote: >>> If you have a form that needs to be populated, >>> submitted, validated and possibly re-displayed, why >>> not use an ActionForm to populate the form in >>> the first place? >> >> If you're talking about only form data, sure. That's >> why I explicitly stated I was referring to plain old >> presentation data. > > Oh, okay. Yeah, I never use ActionForms merely for display. Mostly > because it's not terribly convenient to copy data from a value object > into an ActionForm just for display. > > Thanks for the clarification. > > - -chris > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFF5wII9CaO5/Lv0PARAncFAJ9/3V8DSpTVnWozxkgSYFbBYZ5wzACfZ1t6 > QTQl3awL3aBcg8n7N8iG1Y4= > =3/Fh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
