EL List traversing

On a JSP page, How can I traverse a List of Objects say of class A and pull the values of there instance variables...

e.g

class A{
private String name;

// getter and setter's for name...

}
Thanks...

You can use JSTL c:forEach tag to iterate over the List.

<c:forEach items="listOfObjects" var="currObject>
${listOfObjects.name}
${listOfObjects.secondProperty}
${listOfObjects.otherProperty}
</c:forEach>

OR
If you want access for a given index only then ::
${listOfObjects[0].name}
${listOfObjects[0].secondProperty}
${listOfObjects[0].otherProperty}

Regards,
Shivani

Thanks Shivani... Your second option will not work because the return type from List is Object and then we have to cast that object to its class to access the "name" property.

I haven't tried second one but I think it will have the casting problem too..

Thanks...

Thanks Shivani... Your second option will not work because the return type from List is Object and then we have to cast that object to its class to access the "name" property

Actually no, you don't have to. EL will do that for you. If you've put Person objects in a List, you don't have to cast to Person when getting the value back.

vivek, you can see the same by executing the following code

Thanks a lot Salil, Satou....

It work's great...My mistake was I was trying to traverse the list by directly using the List instead of setting it in request like

<c:forEach var="object_name" items='${a}'>
<br>
<c

ut value='${object_name.name}'>
</c

ut>
</c:forEach>