Struts ActionForm and View's initialization

[alanmiles100]

If I want to initialize my view only once with initial values,
where should I do it?

ActionForm's reset-method seems not to be the right place because it is
called every time if the view has e.g. a submit button. Action class
seems to be called too late. Where should I handle first initialization
of the view? Can anyone please tell me,

Cheers!

 

[shawnews]

If I want to initialize my view only once with initial values,
where should I do it?

ActionForm's reset-method seems not to be the right place because it is
called every time if the view has e.g. a submit button. Action class
seems to be called too late. Where should I handle first initialization
of the view? Can anyone please tell me,

Cheers!

My preferred method is to use an initializing action. Set the values in the
form bean, save to the request, and forward to your view