Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-struts-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 13828 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2002 20:20:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Jul 2002 20:20:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 14281 invoked by uid 97); 2 Jul 2002 20:20:18 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 14265 invoked by uid 97); 2 Jul 2002 20:20:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact struts-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Struts Developers List" Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 14253 invoked by uid 98); 2 Jul 2002 20:20:17 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4198 created Apr 24 2002) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jgermusk@mail.jgsullivan.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <6511277.1025639849324.JavaMail.root@project1.usiatl.com> References: <6511277.1025639849324.JavaMail.root@project1.usiatl.com> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:20:01 -0500 To: "Struts Developers List" From: Joe Germuska Subject: Re: RE: FormBeans ... as an Interface. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N At 4:03 PM -0400 2002/07/02, struts-dev@japache.org wrote: >(I'm not proposing autopopulating anything -- the Action has to >fetch the value object anyway. I just want to reference it directly >using syntax like valueObject.name from my form tags... This >*avoids* aupopulating or having to synchronize any object since the >ActionForm just references the value object.) You can do that, by specifying the optional "name" attribute of the form tags. When you use that, the source of the property is changed from the default FormBean to whatever object is found with that name. It's easy to overlook this if you get used to the default behavior of the tags when "name" is not defined... but it's pretty handy once you get used to it. Joe -- -- * Joe Germuska { joe@germuska.com } "It's pitiful, sometimes, if they've got it bad. Their eyes get glazed, they go white, their hands tremble.... As I watch them I often feel that a dope peddler is a gentleman compared with the man who sells records." --Sam Goody, 1956 tune in posse radio: -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: