Struts

Use Mesage Resources to handle multiple languages and to avoid hard coding text. http://www.systemmobile.com/articles/strutsMessageResources.html

Use BeanUtils CopyProperties and CopyProperty to populate form beans from business beans and vice versa.

BeanUtils

Transferring data between tiers can prove a pain, particularly having to check for null values and converting to the appropriate type. Fortunatley Jakarta provide two useful methods that will look after this for you:

CopyProperties(Object dest, Object src)

CopyProperty(Object dest, String field, Object value);

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