Jeff, My apologies... I just re-read your post, and it looks like you actually want to define your bean within your JSP page... I do not think this is possible. I would imagine not because from what I understand the bean is an actual class file, which would not be created in your scenario. Then again, I could be wrong... However, the scenario I gave works.
HTH Denise -----Original Message----- From: Denise Mangano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:54 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: how do I reference a bean that's inside my jsp page? Jeff, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by a bean that is "inside your JSP" (then again I'm a newbie...), but I am assuming you mean have access to a bean from within your JSP. The way I use my bean, is I created the file MyBean.java with all the proper methods and compiled it. These files (the .java and .class) are in the WEB-INF/classes/com/complusdata/beans directory of my webapp. Now I've noticed that I have had to restart Tomcat every time I make changes to the bean and recompile, but someone on the list may have a better solution to that... In MyBean.java I declare package com.complusdata.beans; To reference the bean from myJSP.jsp that is in my webapp directory, I have the following: <%@page import="com.complusdata.beans"%> <jsp:useBean id="myBean" class="com.complusdata.beans.MyBean" scope="request"> <jsp:setProperty name="myBean" property="*"/> </jsp:useBean> As I've learned from the list, this will tell the JSP to use the bean "myBean". It will first look for an existing instance of the bean. If one does not exist it will execute the body of the <jsp:useBean> tag. If an instance does exist it will not execute the body. Then in either case, you will have access to the properties of that bean. When I want to access a specific value from the bean within my JSP page, I use myBean.getPropertyName() - where you substitute "PropertyName" for the name of your property. I believe you can also use the tag <jsp:getProperty name="myBean" property="propertyName"/> I also have my webapps directory in my Classpath, but not sure if that is required... On a side note, anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong about something ;) but Jeff, this is how mine is set up. HTH Denise -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Ousley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how do I reference a bean that's inside my jsp page? Hello, I cannot seem to get this example below to work under tomcat (I'm using version 4.1.18). I get an error indicating that the class localBean cannot be found such as: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: localBean at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1428) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1274) .... I tried doing an import (which is now commented out) to no avail. Can I not have a bean in my jsp page? If I can, how do I reference it or what do I set so that it can be found? thanks! example page ------------ <HTML> <%-- <%@ page import="localBean" %> --%> <%! // this is a local "helper" bean for processing the HTML form static public class localBean { private String value; public String getValue() { return value;} public void setValue(String s) { value = s; } } %> <jsp:useBean id="localBean" scope="page" class="localBean" > <%-- Every time we create the bean, initialize the string --%> <jsp:setProperty name="localBean" property="value" value="World" /> </jsp:useBean> <%-- Whatever HTTP parameters we have, try to set an analogous bean property --%> <jsp:setProperty name="localBean" property="*" /> <HEAD><TITLE>HelloWorld w/ JavaBean</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <CENTER> <P><H1>Hello <jsp:getProperty name='localBean' property='value'/></H1></P> <FORM method=post> Enter a name to be greeted: <INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE="32" NAME="value" VALUE="<jsp:getProperty name='localBean' property='value'/>"> <BR> <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit"> </FORM> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
