Do ActionForms have to be true JavaBeans?
ActionForms are added to a servlet scope (session or request) as beans. What this means is that, for certain functionality to be available, your ActionForms will have to follow a few simple rules. First, your ActionForm bean must have a zero-arguments constructor. This is required because Struts must be able to dynamically create new instances of your form bean class, while knowing only the class name. This is not an onerous restriction, however, because Struts will also populate your form bean’s properties (from the request parameters) for you. Second, the fields of your form bean are made available to the framework by supplying public getter and setter methods that follow the naming design patterns described in the JavaBeans Specification. For most users, that means using the following idiom for each of your form bean’s properties: private {type} fieldName; public {type} getFieldName() { return (this.fieldName); } public void setFieldName({type} fieldName) { this.fieldName = fieldNam
