I've read a number of articles about correct pre-populate forms methods, including the following:
1. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2004/jw-0913-struts-p3.html <http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2004/jw-0913-struts-p3.html> 2. http://struts.apache.org/faqs/newbie.html#prepopulate <http://struts.apache.org/faqs/newbie.html#prepopulate> 3. http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Struts-Tutorial/Struts-Forms.html#Ex1-Ste p1 <http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Struts-Tutorial/Struts-Forms.html#Ex1-St ep1> I have some questions. The first article does not talk specifics about how Lazy-Loading would be implemented. The second doesn't talk about how the actual pre-population would be implemented in the action. And the third does it in a way that's different from how others do it. Here's what I've gotten so far... There are two different ways that I see to do it. 1. Load the FormBean up in the constructor. a. This does not work in Dyna*Forms since there's no actual implementation b. This then moves the logic to the actual form bean which is not where it's supposed to be. 2. Load the FormBean in a precursor Action a. This works well but every example I've seen then does something like this: Request.getSession().setAttribute( '"formBean", bean); This seems like a bad idea since it places the bean into the session scope. I've tried doing this by putting it directly into request but of course the jsp then doesn't have access to it because the request on the Action is not in the same scope as the 'form'.jsp So I guess I'm at a loss on how best to pre-populate Dyna*Forms. Examples that have worked from your experience would be appreciated.
