more than one in bean in jsp page

[Chris Davies]

hi
i have the following at the top of my jsp application.

<top:useBean id="bean" ^M
classname="com.title.bob.top.beans.RecordBean" ^M
scope="request"/>^M
is it ok for the page to refer to more than one bean ?if i wish to use an other bean do i simply add it below this one like this -
<top:useBean id="bean" ^M
classname="com.title.bob.top.beans.ColumnBean" ^M
scope="request"/>^M
cheers
chris

[Pradeep bhatt]

Exactly!

[Bear Bibeault]

Except that you need to give them different id's obviously.
bear

[Chris Davies]

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
Except that you need to give them different id's obviously.
bear

why is this ?

[Bear Bibeault]

Can you give two variables in a Java program the same name?
Same reason. if you have two beans with the same name (id), how could tell them apart?
bear

[Pradeep bhatt]

The ids are nothing but variable names. You can see that ids cannot be dynamic i.e. it is statis because JSP compiler declares variables with the names passed.