You serialize the object sort of. At least for a hacky solution. That is you add each attribute of it to the request. Lets say I have an object user I wish to pass and user has firstname and lastname as whatever.
Going to actionA: <html:link href="/actionA.do?user.firstname=xxxx&user.lastname=yyyy"/> Then in my action I can create a user object by getting all the user.XXXX parameters and instantiating one. It's a VERY hacky way of doing things in struts. What you are trying to do is go directly to a JSP and then go to an action (or at least it sounds like that to me). A MUCH better solution (and frankly imho the right way to do it in struts) is to use a dynaActionForm for actionA... Instead of going directly to JSPA go to /prepActionA.do (note you CAN skip this if you do not have to prepopulate the object for presentation. But I would personally not go directly to a jsp in my application. Another possibility is to use a DispatchAction and create a method to do the prepopulation and another to do your processing) If you Already have a form for ActionA then you can also just add another attribute to the form. In my example I would add an attribute "user" of type User to the form. In that Action set up the dynaActionForm much like the example code I sent you showing how to pass objects around in the request. The DynaActionForm for my example above would have a property of type User. Then in my form I can see and edit those fields using <html:text property="user.firstname"/> etc. if I do not want the user to edit them, but must pass the object on, then use <html:hidden property="user.firstname"/> I think what you are trying to do can be seen in action using Matt Raible's (your welcome Matt for the shameless plug :) Equinox framework where he does something almost exactly like this. Equinox can be seen at: https://equinox.dev.java.net/framework-comparison/ Baring any of the above working I would seriously reconsider the design of this particular set of logic. But I am sure something like the above will work for you. Al --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
