Certainly makes sense. I was able to change to using forward and now I'm
getting the results I expected. Thanks!
At 02:51 PM 1/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Requests are not preserved over a redirect because this generates a redirect
>response back to the browser. The browser responds by requesting the URL
>provided
>in the redirect response.
>
>Request and response objects are preserved over forward because this is
>internal
>to the webserver.
>
>-- Jason
>
>James Howe wrote:
> >
> > I have two JSP pages which I want to have share a bean. In the first JSP
> > page I do something like this:
> >
> > [...]
> > <jsp:useBean id="bean" scope="request" class="package.BeanClass"/>
> > <jsp:setProperty name="bean" property="prop" value='Some Value'/>
> > <logic:redirect href="foo.jsp"/>
> > [...]
> >
> > In "foo.jsp", I have code which looks like this:
> >
> > [...]
> > <logic:notPresent name="bean" scope="request">
> > <h3>Message not available</h3>
> > </logic:notPresent>
> > <logic:present name="bean" scope="request">
> > <jsp:useBean id="bean" scope="request" class="package.BeanClass"/>
> > <h3><bean:write name="bean" property="prop" filter="true"/></h3>
> > </logic:present>
> > [...]
> >
> > When I invoke the first page, I make the transition to the second page, but
> > the bean property is never found. I've debugged the code and it appears
> > that the request object used by the second page does not have the attribute
> > defined by the first page. I guess I thought that objects put into the
> > request scope were maintained across a redirection. Was I wrong or am I
> > just doing something stupid?
> >
> > Thanks.
James W. Howe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
