Spring for the Struts Programmer

[LilienfeldK]

Doesn't someone one to write a tutorial - Spring for the Struts Programmer. I keep getting so confused because I want to program the "Struts" way. For example. Say you have 1 form controller (I have been trying to use SimpleFormController) for Product. View, Update Product etc all goes through this one controller. However, it must send you to different views depending on which option is selected... but you can only have one form view, right? So how do you do it??

Sorry, just getting frustrated as I can't transfer my knowledge from struts to spring appropriately.

Thanks
Kim

[cmgharris]

SimpleFormController comes with formView and successView 'out of the box'. But you can add more to your controller, e.g.

public class MyController extends SimpleFormController {
    private String viewOne;
    private String viewTwo;

    /* add getters & setters */

     public ModelAndView onSubmit( . . .) {
     . . .
     }
}

Set the values in your config xml just as you would for formView & successView, and code the logic in your onSubmit to route to the appropriate view. That's to give you different 'success' views (the most common requirement, at least in my experience).
If you want different form views, you can override showForm() (I believe - i'ts not something I've ever done).

Hope this helps

[mraible]

I hate to market my book on these forums, but it sounds like Spring Live might be a good book for you. In Chapter 2 (which is available for free), you develop a Struts+Spring+Hibernate application. Then in Chapter 4, that application is refactored to replace Struts with Spring MVC. I tried to write these two chapters from a Struts Developer perspective since I figured that would be a large audience to target.

[Rod Johnson]

Don't worry Matt--it's perfectly legitimate, I believe your book will help with such questions!

[Colin Sampaleanu]

Might want to check the link above thought. I tried clicking on it and got an error about the content not starting with something like %PDF, so I guess it's not a valid PDF file...

[keller]

Colin

I had the same problem when I tried to view the PDF through FireFox. When I saved the file, then opened it in Acrobat, it worked.


Keller