Obviously, you don't understand JavaBeans....
Don't expect what you are looking for.
J
Thanks for your message at 08:22 PM 7/11/99 -0700, Kevin Burton:
>Why can't a developer provide a constructor with a parameter list?
>
><jsp:useBean id="test" scope="session" class="com.myCompany.test" />
>
>Is is it just me or does this seem like a major pain. If I want to use
>a constructor with parameters I would have to write an initialize()
>method and call it via:
>
><%
>test.initialize("var1", "var2");
>%>
>
>IMO this just leads to bad code. I am writing a bean that accesses an
>Oracle database. I would like to provde a database URL, logon and
>password as part of the constructor.
>
>Any ideas? Is this slated to become a feature down the road?
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