[Dspace-tech] Role of request.getAttribute() in .jsp files ??

2013-04-21 Thread Nishant Goyal
Certain .jsp files contains request.getAttribute() function which returns certain properties based upon the parameter being passed. Eg: request.getAttribute(communities) returns community list. From where does it retrieves this information?? Can anybody help ?? Thanks . -- Nishant Goyal IIT

Re: [Dspace-tech] Role of request.getAttribute() in .jsp files ??

2013-04-21 Thread helix84
I don't know much about JSP, but this question sounds easy. Basically, this is a part of the servlet specification. The request object represents the HTTP request and the getAttribute() method is a way to transfer an object to the servlet. This is documented in the standard JavaDoc: