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PropertyUtils.getSimpleProperty(bean,propertyName) Neil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 April 2006 02:56 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [OT] Re: Bean Question One, or both, of these may help: 1. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils/ 2. http://cglib.sourceforge.net/ -Dennis "Neil Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/07/2006 01:31 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> To "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> cc Subject Bean Question Good day, I have a bean something like this public class testBean implements Serializable { private String test1; private String test2; private String test3; private String test4; public String getTest1 () { return test1; } public void setTest1 (String test1_) { this.test1= test1_; } public String getTest2 () { return test2; } public void setTest2 (String test2_) { this.test2= test2_; } public String getTest3 () { return test3; } public void setTest3 (String test3_) { this.test3= test3_; } public String getTest4 () { return test4; } public void setTest4 (String test4_) { this.test4= test4_; } } I then have a list of properties file that I want to get the property out of the bean specified in the properties file. The properties file might have something like this Value=test1,test2 So I want to dynamically tell the system to get testBean.getTest1 testBean.getTest2 I really hope there is somebody that can give me some pointers here. Regards Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]