DAO class not populating Model class

[Frank Serkland]

Okay, different problem from me. My DAO class is not populating my Model class. I've stepped through this and verified that the data is reaching the DAO class, but it's not getting put in the Model. Instead an exception is being called, but when I call getMessage on the exception, all that gets printed out is null. Here is the class. Any advice?

public class CommentDAO {
	Comment userComment;
	boolean successfulWrite;

	public boolean writeComment(String name, String comment) {
		SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure()
				.buildSessionFactory();
		Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
		try {
			java.util.Date utilDate = new java.util.Date();
			Date date = new Date(utilDate.getTime());

			userComment.setName(name);
			userComment.setComment(comment);
			userComment.setDate(date);
			
			Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
			session.save(userComment);
			tx.commit();
			successfulWrite = true;
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
			successfulWrite = false;
		} finally {
			session.close();
		}
		
		return successfulWrite;
	}
}

[Frank Serkland]

Frank Serkland wrote:Okay, different problem from me. My DAO class is not populating my Model class.

I just solved this problem. Putting the local variables inside the method did the trick. You can all just ignore this thread.

[David Newton]

Also make sure that your posts end up in the proper forum--this question has nothing to do with Struts and probably belongs in one of the Java forums instead.