Should there be anything in between Hibernate and Struts, or would it be acceptable to populate action forms with Hibernate persistant objects?
I am trying to keep it as light as possible :)

Thanks,
Oleg

I didn't really understand your question. Are you asking if it's possible to use Struts + Hibernate? If so, yes. I'm developing a project with this too tools and will be glad to answer if you have questions.

If you're suggesting mapping your ActionForm objects directly with Hibernate, I would definitely recommend against it. But copying Hibernate persistant objects to/from the ActionForm properties, as-needed, is the way we do it.

Thanks for the response and I apologize for not being clear.
I see what you mean about ActionForm itself being mapped by Hibernate, but lets say ActionForm has a collection that will be populated with objects, can those objects be Hibernate persistent? Or should I create an object that will have its values copied from Hibernate object and than add it to collection?

Have a feeling its not a good idea still, but I am just getting desperate in terms of conserving memory used :)

Thanks
Oleg

I'm sure many people would argue each way. If you're only displaying the data, I'd say go ahead and use the persistent objects in the form.

The issue I've run into is with forms usually being only String or boolean types and doing validation and type conversions afterwards, before persisting the data.