[FormProc-developer] Re: Why FormProc? Was RE: [ANN] JPublish 0.8 Released

[Brad C. <bc...@vi...>]

At 7:10 PM -0500 2/16/02, Anthony Eden wrote:

Oh yes, one other thing. The http://virtualschool.edu/jwaa article 
discusses another difference at some length. With my approach, the 
rest of the application is written in terms of Fields (Name, Zipcode, 
etc) which are converted to Strings only at the last moment before 
hitting the database.

My understanding is that with FormProc, fields are converted to 
Strings once validated. If so, the application winds up being 
declared in terms of Strings, not in descriptive types like Zipcode.

So I get to write higher level classes like this:
	new Address(Name n, Street s, City c, Zipcode z, State s);
not like this:
	new Address(String n, String s, String c, ...
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