and scriptlet write

[Cohan, Sean]

I have a bean defined on a page.  I can write some of the methods using
scriptlet code, but not others.  However, I can write the others with
<bean:write>.  For example, the following code causes a cannot resolve
symbol  : method getIndexFactor () servlet exception.:
 
<%=  sortedQueueCursor.getIndexFactor() %>

 
But this works on the same page:
 
<bean:write name="sortedQueueCursor" property="indexFactor"/>

But I can do the following successfully with the same bean on the same page:
 
<%=  sortedQueueCursor.getComparatorName() %>
 
Both methods return Strings.
 
What am I missing?  
 
Thanks