How do I declare a bean that is a property of another bean?

[Thomas Kennedy]

In my view I have this

public Foo getFoo(){ return foo; }

In my JSP I have this:

<jsp:useBean class="x.y.z.someView" id="view" scope="request" /> <td><%= view.getFoo().getSomeProperty() %></td>
Of course I will replace the scriplet:

<td>${view.foo.someProperty}</td>
but it would be nice to do this instead:

<td>${foo.someProperty}</td>
How can I declare a bean that is itself a property of another bean?

[Bear Bibeault]

I think it's needless, but you can simply create a new scoped variable for foo in your controller. Though I don't see what the advantage is. In fact, it becomes less clear when you do that. I'd simply keep the original references.

[Paul Clapham]

I don't know about "declare"... you could certainly put the Foo object into request scope in your controller code identified as "foo", and then you could use
<td>${foo.someProperty}</td>
in your JSP.