jsp:useBean

[Nikhil Jain]

Hello Ranchers,

In HFS, Chapter Scriptless JSP's,
what happens if we declare a type but not a class <jsp useBean id = "person" type="foo.person" scope = "page"/> ?

The books says that, if the type is used without class, the bean must already exists?. What does this mean?

Does this mean, there would be a statement something like
request.setattribute("person", p) in the servlet;

so if the setAttribute statement does not exists, will the useBean property create one?

I am getting confused?

[Harish Yerneni]

yes. It will generally create one but not in this case because it doesnt know which instance it should create of

foo.Person p = new (of what)?

foo.Person (type)
foo.Employee(class) in usebean tag.

Hope it helps!

[Marc Peabody]

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