What do people feel about using constants for property names?
In general I feel one should use constants for such things, but it is
far from easy in a web app to do so.
I can't really see the point. A property name is like a variable name, it will never be displayed or localized, so why would you ever want to change it?
<html:text property="<%=Keys.Section0.APPLICANT_NAME%>"/>
Can you think of a case where this value won't be "applicantName"?
- jstl tags - xml files (e.g. struts-config, validation)
Worse: if you have an ActionForm, you can't have a property whose name depends on a constant!! And what about getters and setters.
Should I forget about defining constants?
Yes :)
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