Is FormBean Is Necessary?

[john Dalton]

Hello All,
I am a newbie to struts,I have question in struts.

Is the Form bean class is necessary for each action class.If yes ,Suppose i am not reading any data from form bean but i am usingg action class for just forwarding to other jsp page or
other action class . in this case it is must to write a form bean with just validate method or it is not required???

Thanks in Advance

[Singh Harmeet]

i think the form bean is the concept of struts 1 , if you are new in struts then continue with struts 2 , there is no need to learn the concept of strtus 1.

[Shankar Tanikella]

Hi Muralikrishna,

Welcome to JavaRanch!!!


In your case, you do not need the form but the action class method signature should include the action form as parameter.

[Pawan Singh]

Form bean is neccessary in Struts 1.3, if you don't need to fetch the data, just create a FormBean without any Property.