I'm considering using Hibernate's Detached Object Support in a "typical" web app - the only remote client is a browser, so no ejb session bean. The user views (GUI screens) are fairly simple so the domain objects themselves should work for RO views and data entry. We use Struts (unfortunately?) so I believe action forms are mandatory for data entry. Can't I just store a disconnected object graph directly on the Struts actionform? Wouldn't a post just update (bind) the string data in the httprequest to the disconnected object graph? Would I need to store the actionform in httpsession?

Thanks for the help,

Jeff

I guess in general it will work fine, but there are some issues that arise with larger applications : character encoding and field validation. If you polulate your business-object property directliy with http-request strings, then you might run into special character (en/de)coding problems, e.g. $ or euro currency sign.