at the whole you need a DTO(Data Transfer Object) for transferring the student fetched data to the jsp page. So you could specify an object for this purpose or use your predefine actionForm object. you could use bean:write for both specified DTO and ActionForm object to display the information on the page. but if you are using ActionForm object, there's another option using form tag and the inner tags such as html:text to display its properties. Nafise
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