Hi,

I'm developing a web app and using struts for my view and controller.
I'm new to J2EE and was wondering if it's considered appropriate to
pass my action forms on to my model layer.  Form beans in struts I
think are considered part of my view.

On the model side, I have entity beans that contain other beans and
sometimes collections of other beans.  My form bean contains ID values
to represent these collections of beans within beans.  In other words,
I can't just call beanutils.copyproperties().  I am not using nested
beans for good reason.  So I'd like to create a similar functionality
to copy over the properties in my model.  My only hesitation in
passing the formbean over is that it may be considered bad form,
because formbeans are considered part of the view, and that makes my
model unusable for other apps (though I'm not expecting to use other
apps).  Anybody have any words of wisdom to impart on an MVC novice
such as myself?