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Struts Forms question

Hello,

Today a guy asked me if i could map one action to two forms !!

Can we do that ?? He says the first forms information he will store in the session, and then on the second form when the user will submit the form, he will store the two forms into the database. How can he store a forms information in session ?????????????????

Thanks

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letsbedecent

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yeah.. but isnt the information on the first form lost when the user goes to the second page !!! If the form is not associated with an action form ?

Or is he thinking about using request.getParameter() and storing all the information in a session !!

aozarov

The Form will "live" based on the scope defined in the Action.
e.g
<action
path="/LogonSubmit"
type="app.LogonAction"
name="logonForm"
scope="request"
validate="true"
input="/pages/Logon.jsp">
<forward
name="success"
path="/pages/Welcome.jsp"/>
<forward
name="failure"
path="/pages/Logon.jsp"/>
</action>

This Action will create an instance of logonForm per request.
if you change scope="request to scope="session" (which is the default if you don't provide this attribute) then that logonForm will live for the whole session.