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Just wondering if such feature is planned in the near future releases?
It seems logical to supply features to generate the struts form (either Actionform or DynaForm), struts validators config, and actual jsp form from the database explorer. The current process of having to enter the Form Fields one by one is quite tedius.
We don’t currently have such a feature planned, but it doesn’t mean I can’t file it. I know that if we were to do something like this, it would definately be post 3.9 release (maybe 4.0 timeframe).
Thanks. Does that mean I’m the first one to request for such feature? Any better ways to do things currently?
Yes you are the first to request it, and I don’t know how to do this other ways. I am not aware of a tool that supports this type of generation.
ohh.. is it because this type of generators won’t work? or are not useful? or sounds illogical? such that no one bother requesting for it?
IMO, after having done a handful of Struts apps and some JSF apps… this type of generation is a little TOO much. Rarely, in a real-world production application, do you end up with a 1:1:1 mapping between DB -> Form -> JSP page… in a sample or prototype application I can see it, but in a real-world application the Forms are always a little more complex, your JSP pages are always slightly different. So even if ME had this ability, I don’t know that I would use it. I think this is why tools historically haven’t offered this.
BUT that is not to say that it wouldn’t be useful, I’m just commenting why I think it hasn’t been done before.
