RE: newbie - DynaActionForm, EJB and easystruts

[Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn,

I agree. 

I've had to extend an application that used DynaActions forms, and the
problem I have found is that as soon as you need to do anything complex with
your forms, DynaAction forms just get in the way.

cheers
Colin.W
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Holmer [mailto:gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 03 December 2004 16:43
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: newbie - DynaActionForm, EJB and easystruts


Lim Hock-Chai wrote:
> I went thru a lesson on this web site 
> http://www.reumann.net/struts/lesson3.do and the author is not 
> recommending using DynaActionForm.  Is anybody using this method?  If 
> it does cause problem as the author described, I will try to avoid 
> this.

I didn't do the lesson, why does he recommend against it? We use
DynaActionForms all the time.  You only need to code your own ActionForm in
unusual cases.

> Also, would I miss a lot if I did not use/learn EJB (as far as web 
> programming)?

No.

> Also, I tried to use easystruts eclipse plugin and I was kind of lose.  
> Should I keep trying this product?  I found manually coding to be not 
> that difficult.

Code by hand, you'll learn more.  It's not that hard anyway, most folks
don't feel the need for a GUI for Struts.

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