FW: [Opensource] Is the use of DefaultForm a common/best practice on Expresso projects?

[Michael Rimov]

At 08:11 AM 4/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>First off, if you use ActionForms do you utilize the validate method?  If 
>you how?  Do you have a Controller with one state and one form much like 
>how Struts works?  What I found is that if you create your own form and 
>assign it in the struts-config.xml file the minute the initial state is 
>called that form's validate method is called  (actually it is called 
>before the controller is called)  Which that kind of breaks the ability to 
>have a Controller with multiple states.  And if you don't utilize the 
>ActionForm's validate method then why are you creating a ActionForm?  What 
>functionality are you gaining?

Actually, for me, I found it incredibly convenient for multiple page 
forms.  One app, I had an "OrderInfoBean", and I split the data entry into 
multiple pages, one for shipping, one for credit card info. etc.... then 
once I had all the information, I processed the whole bean.  Saved a lot of 
typing for populating the bean from raw parameters.

Peter Pilgrim used a custom Action form to store search results in the 
session to provide a caching mechanism for searches.

Neither of these used the validate() function.

HTH!
                                                 -Mike
   
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