SpringMVC vs Struts

[gezhall]

Hi all. I know this is a spring forum, but this is more of a struts question I suppose.

One thing I like about Spring MVC is the easy way it allows you to initialize your form bean before the view is displayed to the user. For example, using the formBackingObject() or setupForm() method, you can setup form fields so they are populated when the view loads.

I never found such a simple way of doing this with stuts (I did do it, but it was very complex) - do you know if there is any easy way in struts?

Thanks!

[mraible]

It's easy to do in Struts 2 by implementing the Preparable interface. Struts 1 - not so easy.