EL Mystery

[khaled Jamal]

Hi

Suppose we have a Person class like this one :

    
public class Person {
	
	private int id;
	private String name;
	
	public Person(int id, String name) {
		this.id = id;
		this.name = name;
	}
	
	public int getId() {
		return id;
	}
	public void setId(int id) {
		this.id = id;
	}
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	public String toString() {
		return String.format("%d, %s", id, name);
	}
} 

This is a part of code from a servlet :

    
Person p1, p2;
p1 = new Person(1, "A");
p2 = new Person(2,"B");
java.util.List l = new ArrayList() ; 
l.add(p1);l.add(p2);
request.setAttribute("list", l); 

which dispatch to this JSP :

    
<c:forEach var="person" items='${list}'>
          <option value='${person.id}'>${person.name}</option>
</c:forEach>

I want to know please how the container know the type of objects within the list to cast them in order to be able to access the id and name

Thanks

[Bear Bibeault]

reflection