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RE: [cinjug-users] Struts FormBean <--> Domain Best Practice?

To: 'Mike Helmick' <helmick@xxxxxxxxx>, josh marotti <marotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [cinjug-users] Struts FormBean <--> Domain Best Practice?
From: Amol Deshmukh <adeshmukh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:18:53 -0500
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Thats the approach I prefer too - whenever possible. 
This way you simply delegate all the get/set calls 
in the form class to the get/set of the domain object
(which is member of the form class).

So far this has worked fine for me... 
also it avoids having to copy properties using 
BeanUtils/PropertyUtils between form and domain 
objects.

~ amol




-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Helmick [mailto:helmick@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:40 PM
To: josh marotti
Cc: users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cinjug-users] Struts FormBean <--> Domain Best Practice?





personally --- 
I always just include my domain objects (usually hibernate POJOs) as members
of my form bean 


no conversion needed :) 


<plug>this pattern works better with tapestry</plug> 


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On Mar 23, 2005, at 7:46 PM, josh marotti wrote: 


I have been involved in the development of several struts 
applications. The one thing I have noticed is that everyone has a 
different way of converting formbeans to domain (or value) objects and 
back. I've seen a conversion manager that lists all the converts as 
static methods, a semi-factory pattern, having a formbean having a 
'toDomain()' method and the domain having a 'toFormBean()' method, 
etc... 


The question is, has anyone created a best practice to doing these 
conversions? Is it just a matter of personal preference? Is it 
dependent on the project? 


Thanks, 
Josh 


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