Do I have to have a separate ActionForm bean for every HTML form?
This is an interesting question. As a newbie, it is a good practice to create a new ActionForm for each action sequence. You can use DynaActionForms to help reduce the effort required, or use the code generation facilities of your IDE. Some issues to keep in mind regarding reuse of form beans are as follows: • Validation – You might need to use different validation rules depending upon the action that is currently being executed. • Persistence – Be careful that a form populated in one action is not unexpectedly reused in a different action. Multiple
