Keri Mathis wrote:Yes, my plan is to do JSP to servlet.
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trying to get the html form to auto-populate the bean
These two statements are in direct conflict.
You either post to a servlet, or post to a JSP. If you are doing the former, the <jsp:setProperty> tag is obviously not available. If you are doing the latter just to be lazy and use the <jsp:setProperty> tag, well, ...
If you want something that can do the same job, but run in servlet code, check out the BeanUtils.populate() method of the Jakarta Commons BeanUtils project.
I thought if I need to use the setProperty in the 2nd jsp page, I could auto-populate it then forward it to the servlet. But I'm not sure if that will work.
As I indicated above, that's creating a lot of artificial contortions, extra overhead, and violation of best practices,
just to be able to use <jsp:getProperty>. Does that really make sense?