Re: Filling-in a Bean inside a Servlet

I've lost track of your original question, but you might look at JOT
Servlets for another model of what you wish to do.  The FORM parameters
are automatically available as JotServletBean properties - if there are
matching setters they are called automatically, if there are matching
getters they are used instead of the raw FORM parameters. The JOT Views
rendering engine with the same functionality can be invoked from your
controller Servlet. Neither JOT or the Struts example you cite are going
to automatically populate your POJO customer object. Often there are
conversions (numeric, date, etc.) and validations that you want to
perform on the incoming parameters anyway.

Paul Copeland
JOT Servlets Web Component Framework
http://www.jotobjects.com


>  Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:52:41 +0200
>
>  From: Dani Pardo <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Filling-in a
>  Bean inside a Servlet
>
> > Can I fill all the properties of the Bean magically on a line, The
> > same way that the jsp does it via <jsp:setProperty property="*">
> > ??? There must be a trick or a workaround, because this method
> > doesn't scale. There must be some trick to achieve to get a
> > Customer object as a parameter:
>
>
>
>  Hi, I respond to myself. I've done intensing search and I've finally
>  get on the conclusion that it can't be done: When using Servlets and
>  JSPs, you play with FORM parameters on the jsp side, and play with
>  attaching attributes on the Servlet side. Acutally, it's almost the
>  same I've been doing with Perl CGIs and Template Toolkit.
>
>  To do the magic-bean-populating trick, you have to use some esoteric
>  framwork like Struts:
>
>  From http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Struts-Tutorial/
>
>  "With Struts, the normal processing flow is that a form submits data
>  to a URL of the form blah.do. That address is mapped by
>  struts-config.xml to an Action object, whose execute method handles
>  the request. One of the arguments to execute is a form bean that is
>  automatically created and whose properties are automatically
>  populated with the incoming form data. The Action object then invokes
>  business logic and data-access logic, placing the results in normal
>  beans stored in request, session, or application scope."
>
>
>  -- Dani Pardo, [email protected] Enplater S.A
>
>

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