I had a developer question how Struts infers property a name from a getter & setter... and vice-versa. This was the problem: property: vTasks getter: getVTasks() At runtime, a "getter not found for property vTasks" error occurred. I decided to research exactly what was going on... here's what I found in case anyone is interested. It's a feature, not a bug. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- The following is from the javabean spec at http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/docs/beans.101.pdf. It discusses how a property name is derived from a getter or setter. ------------------------------------------------- 8.8 Capitalization of inferred names. When we use design patterns to infer a property or event name, we need to decide what rules to follow for capitalizing the inferred name. If we extract the name from the middle of a normal mixedCase style Java name then the name will, by default, begin with a capital letter. Java programmers are accustomed to having normal identifiers start with lower case letters. Vigorous reviewer input has convinced us that we should follow this same conventional rule for property and event names. Thus when we extract a property or event name from the middle of an existing Java name, we normally convert the first character to lower case. However to support the occasional use of all upper-case names, we check if the first two characters of the name are both upper case and if so leave it alone. So for example, "FooBah" becomes "fooBah" "Z" becomes "z" "URL" becomes "URL" We provide a method Introspector.decapitalize which implements this conversion rule. ---------------------------------------------------- The decapitalize() method is below... straight from Sun. They look at the getter, decapitalize the VTasks portion of getVTasks(), which is VTasks since the 1st two characters are uppercase. getVTasks -> VTasks getvTasks->vTasks Since we want to be able to infer the getter & setter from the property, vTasks as a property -> getvTasks as a getter... which wasn't on your bean... which is why you got the error. public static String decapitalize(String name) { if (name == null || name.length() == 0) { return name; } if (name.length() > 1 && Character.isUpperCase(name.charAt(1)) && Character.isUpperCase(name.charAt(0))){ return name; } char chars[] = name.toCharArray(); chars[0] = Character.toLowerCase(chars[0]); return new String(chars); } Hope this helps. I'll add something about this to the JSP Standards document. There is already the following section on bean properties. Bean Properties Avoid properties that begin with two or more uppercase letters AAA -> getAAA() aaA -> getAaA() AaA -> getAaA()???
