Re: Populating Options in ActionForm

Best practice is to unit test!
The FormBean should not know how the data gets there. OptionCollection 
requires a Collection returned. So you need to unit test your form bean 
for returning a collection.
Ex:
public Collection getOptions() {
...
}


Qasim Khawaja wrote:

> I am trying to populate three drop down selects with data from the 
> database (well actually using a DAO class and hibernate). The DAO 
> class throw a hibernate exception. I don't obviously want there to 
> make the ActionForm aware of hibernate.
>
> What is the best way to populate the lists in the ActionForm?
>
> Thanks Q
>
>
>

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