They (the authors) are just trying to show code without any scriptlets because that would be a "no no". But, like the example already posted in response to your question, using <bean:write name="<%= IConstants.SOME_CONST %>" ...> would be the equivalent way to use a constant in your tags.
It's just not as pretty plus your html developers don't need to know Java when you go without the scriptlets. Using <%= IConst.SOME_CONST %> you'll need to have to have this at the top of the JSP: <%@ page import="whatever.package.IConst" %> or you can do: <%= whatever.package.IConst.SOME_CONST %> -----Original Message----- From: Emil Alexandrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Struts and Constants ? Hi, I'm new in Struts and I'm trying to catch up with Chuck's Jakarta Struts but I must confess that I'm a little confused with the use of Constants in Struts. In the examples in the book when we pass some data from controller to view we use something like (session,request).setAttribute(IConstants.SOME_CONST, someObj) where for example SOME_CONST="blah blah" What puzzles me is that in the jsp when we want to show the object we use <bean:write name="blah blah" property="someProperty"/> The same examples I saw and in 'Struts Kick Start'. So what is the use of the Constant? If we change the constant we have to go and manually change the value of the constant in jsp too! Am I missing something, or just examples are not complete? 10x, Emil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
