Making data accessible to JSP from an Action

[seb petterson]

Just started to look at Struts.

What is the preferable way of making data accessible for a JSP from a Struts action?

I currently store it in the session object. But this seems unnecessary since the only jsp that has to have access to the data is the one defined by Struts' forward mapping for the action (whereas the session stored object scopes over all jsp's).

Thanks,

Seb

[Merrill Higginson]

The preferable way to make data available to a JSP from a struts action is to place it in a JavaBean that extends ActionForm, and to place a reference to that object in the HttpServletRequest object. In cases of multiple page forms, you may need to store the data in the session object, but the request is preferred if you can make it work.