Perhaps I'm missing something, but a bean can be any object, and a property
can be any object, so a property can be a bean.

Sounds like a "syllogism" :^)

But perhaps I'm missing something.

Dan
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> ----------
> From:         Kurt Williams[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To:     Kurt Williams
> Sent:         Thursday, March 04, 1999 8:38 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Another JSP 1 spec suggestion
>
> After using JSP for a while (and loving it) I've ran into a number of
> situations where it would be advantageous to be able to set a bean's
> property to another bean.  For example, I've got a set of format beans
> and I've got a table bean.  It would be nice to assign the
> table.columnFormat property to a bean, rather than a string.  Right now
> it seems that we are limited to just setting/getting string properties.
> It seems there should be some way to set a bean's property to another
> bean, not just a string.
>
> Something like a <SETFROMBEAN> tag that could work like:
>
> <USEBEAN name="dateFormatBean"
> type="com.mypackage.DateFormatBean"></BEAN>
>
> <USEBEAN name="tableBean" type="com.mypackage.TableBean">
>   <SETFROMBEAN BEANPROPERTY="columnFormat" VALUE="dateFormatBean">
> </USEBEAN>
>
> This would be ultra cool and very useful.  If there's already some way
> to do this, someone let me know.
>
> Thanks!
>
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