Hi,

I guess that this is WebLogic as you are using <netui> tags.

Well, populating a FormBean does not necessarily require any PageInput. Populating a FormBean can be done in your Controller.

First, can you let me know the root of your problem? And if possible, post your current codes.

David

You are right, I am using Weblogic Workship.
Basically I have .jsp form which is populated using pageinput, and after filling the form I want the update to be done using actionForm. I'm not home now (the code is there), wil post the code snippets this afternoon. It's the 2nd tutorial of the Weblogic documentation, anyway, the one with the CustomerServiceEAR application.

This one: http://edocs.bea.com/workshop/docs92/ws_platform/webapplications/tutorial/tutWebAppIntro.html

and this is the tutorial page with my current problem (apparently, the file with the formBean is missing from my installation):


this is the code of the .jsp where I insert the data to be updated:
http://edocs.bea.com/workshop/docs92/ws_platform/webapplications/tutorial/tutWebAppStep4.html

#============================
# Begining of code snippet
#============================
<netui:form action="updateCustomer">
            <netui:hidden dataSource="actionForm.customer.id"></netui:hidden>
            <table>
                  <tr valign="top">
                        <td>Customer:</td>
                        <td>
                        <table>
                              <tr valign="top">
                                    <td>FirstName:</td>
                                    <td><netui:textBox dataSource="actionForm.customer.firstName"></netui:textBox>
                                    </td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr valign="top">
                                    <td>LastName:</td>
                                    <td><netui:textBox dataSource="actionForm.customer.lastName"></netui:textBox>
                                    </td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr valign="top">
                                    <td>CompanyName:</td>
                                    <td><netui:textBox dataSource="actionForm.customer.companyName"></netui:textBox>
                                    </td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr valign="top">
                                    <td>City:</td>
                                    <td><netui:textBox dataSource="actionForm.customer.city"></netui:textBox>
                                    </td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr valign="top">
                                    <td>State:</td>
                                    <td><netui:textBox dataSource="actionForm.customer.state"></netui:textBox>
                                    </td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr valign="top">
                                    <td>Zip:</td>
                                    <td><netui:textBox dataSource="actionForm.customer.zip"></netui:textBox>
                                    </td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr valign="top">
                                    <td>Phone:</td>
                                    <td><netui:textBox dataSource="actionForm.customer.phone"></netui:textBox>
                                    </td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr valign="top">
                                    <td>Email:</td>
                                    <td><netui:textBox dataSource="actionForm.customer.email"></netui:textBox>
                                    </td>
                              </tr>
                        </table>
                        </td>
                  </tr>
            </table>
            <br />
      <netui:button value="updateCustomer" type="submit" />
      </netui:form>
#============================
# End of code snippet
#============================

Ok,

So where is your problem now? You should have updateCustomer.do method in your Controller with the ActionForm within the method. Right?

It should be something like

protected Forward updateCustomer(WhateverForm form)

The problem is that, although I have

<netui-data:declarePageInput required="true" type="model.Customer" name="getCustomerByIdResult" />

in the form page code, the data doesn't show up -- the form stays blank. I debugged the control method and indeed data is present in "getCustomerByIdRsult" -- I'm missing the syntax to make the form populated with this data while STILL being an ActionForm.

Will try it tomorrow, thanks for the reply.

I will not be available to reply you until mid Jan 2007. I will be going off for my vacation tommorow.

Happy New Year 2007.
David

Will check when I have time in those days, didn't had time recently... sorry to keep the question hanging