confusion in <jsp:useBean>

[avi sinha]

  <jsp:useBean id="person" class="com.foo.Person" scope="request">
			<jsp:setProperty name="person" property="name" value="person1" />
			</jsp:useBean>  

this will set the value of property "name" as person1 if the attribute person is not available.
but what can we do to set the value of the property dog which is an object not string.??? { as we are giving a value in quotes here}

class Dog:

  package com.foo;

public class Dog{
	private String name;

	public String getName(){
	return name;
	}

	public void setName(String s){
		name=s;
	}
}  

class Person:

 package com.foo;
import com.foo.Dog;
public class Person{
	private Dog dog;
	private String name;
	
	public String getName(){
	return name;
	}
	
	public void setName(String s){
		name=s;
	}
	
	public Dog getDog(){
		return dog;
	}
	
	public void setDog(Dog d){
		dog=d;
	}
	
}   

please help!!! i have tried alot but everytime i got an Exception

 
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp(13,58) quote symbol expected
   

avi sinha

[Christophe Verré]

The error message tells you there's a problem in index.jsp.
Check the line indicated in the error message, or post the code here.

[avi sinha]

Christophe Verré wrote:The error message tells you there's a problem in index.jsp.
Check the line indicated in the error message, or post the code here.

i know what the problem is ? i was trying to assign a variable to the value parameter in the <jsp:setProperty>.
i just want to know that, is there any method by which we can set the property dog here using <jsp:setProperty> inside <jsp:useBean>
or setting value like this is valid for only string type properties.

avi sinha

[avi sinha]

got the answer. we can write "<% ... %>" must be inside quotes
thanks

avi sinha

[Chinmaya Chowdary]

Hi Avi. Here 'value' attribute not only used for strings. We can also use jsp expressions, EL.

[avi sinha]

thanks chinmaya
i was rying without quotes.. that was the problem.
anyway thanks

avi sinha