significance of id and property in <bean:define />

Hello Members ,

Can anybody tell me the significance of

To access this we use
This time code is not running and giving the exception

In my form bean there is

So whenever i tried the

i.e. the property's name has the same name as given in id in <bean:define > it works fine .I don't know why is it happening ??

Can you paste whole jsp?

where your html:text tag is(child tag of which tag) ?

Shailesh Narkhede wrote:Can you paste whole jsp?

where your html:text tag is(child tag of which tag) ?

It is my correctly running code in which first smiley must be same as second smiley ??

Really Confusing

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Does the ActionForm have a publicly-accessible getter for the DTO? You show only a private member, although your message vaguely implies that there is: it's really important to be clear in your messages what you've actually implemented.

David Newton wrote:Does the ActionForm have a publicly-accessible getter for the DTO? You show only a private member, although your message vaguely implies that there is: it's really important to be clear in your messages what you've actually implemented.

VehicleRegistrationForm.jsp

What specifically is the problem? That it only works when the text tag uses "vehicleDTO.file"?

If so, I'd imagine that the text tag isn't using the defined bean but instead it's accessing the form directly. I don't know if you can use a <bean:define> bean in a text tag--the form tags access the form directly, if I remember correctly.

David Newton wrote:What specifically is the problem? That it only works when the text tag uses "vehicleDTO.file"?

If so, I'd imagine that the text tag isn't using the defined bean but instead it's accessing the form directly. I don't know if you can use a <bean:define> bean in a text tag--the form tags access the form directly, if I remember correctly.

Yeah !! You are right !
But my problem is that when i am landing to this JSP page it is just showing those form attributes which are present in FormBean rather than normal Bean Class (or DTO).While I created a setter/getter of DTO in Form Bean.

But still ,to access DTO values I need to define bean explicitly.And in this case I have to define

Well FYI ! If i retrieve all the values from DTO then we do not need to define bean explicitly.

Here My question is that Whether is It necessary to keep the same name of id and property in <bean define while we are using the properties of DTO and FormBean at the same JSP ??>