Populate your drop-downs with listeners and allow for refreshing
Most webapps have drop-downs (a.k.a. pick lists) that users select from when filling in forms. Spring has a nice referenceData method on its Controllers that you can use to populate these, but I prefer a different way. In AppFuse, I populate these using a ServletContextListener. However, one of the problems with using this is that your drop-downs won't get refreshed unless you have admins screens or a way to reload the attributes set in the listener.
In short, I think it's a good idea to load drop-down options in a listener and also have an action or servlet to refresh these options. For examples, see StartupListener.java and ReloadAction.java. Got a better way? I'm interested...
Posted by Jason Boutwell on April 30, 2004 at 12:01 AM MDT #
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Posted by VIc on April 30, 2004 at 04:39 PM MDT #
Posted by Nobody Important on April 30, 2004 at 07:46 PM MDT #
Posted by Eric Hauser on August 04, 2004 at 10:08 PM MDT #