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Dave,

Dave Newton wrote:
> --- Christopher Schultz wrote:
>> Right. Under most circumstances, you should set
>> validate="true" in your <action> definition, and 
>> /not/ call form.validate() in your own action.
>> You /are/ free to call validation by hand, but it's
>> generally more convenient to allow Struts to handle 
>> the validate/fail/redirect logic for you -- if only 
>> to simplify the code in your own actions.
> 
> Bah. That still doesn't make any sense to me; my base
> class handles all of the work and I don't have to
> define another action with a different URL just to
> display a form without running validation.

I didn't say that you need another URL that doesn't perform validation.
I'm just suggesting that calling form.validate( ) by hand doesn't buy
you much (unless you are doing something complex). Since the OT is just
starting out, I'm guessing his validations are relatively simple.

- -chris

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