[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Best practice: pre/post population of Entities

Hello, I'd value people's input on the best practice for the following: I have an Entity Foo. Some of Foo's fields are bound to form fields on a page (a seam-gen create page in this example). Before showing the page to the user I want to create a Foo instance and pre-populate some of Foo's fields from the context (eg. logged-in user name). Then the user will populate most of Foo's fields like normal using the form bindings. Finally I want to post-populate some Foo fields after the user submits the form but before continuing to the next page. I started playing with this and found myself delving into some weird hacks, so I'm 99% sure I'm going the wrong way. :-~ Thoughts? Greg View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026271#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...