Where's the best place to declare all the beans?

[JW Li]

Hi,

I am new to Struts, and tried to use as much as Structs tag as possible in my jsp. One problem confuses me is where to define all the beans that my jsp need to access? In the past, I used to have some java code in the jsp to declare all the beans to be accessed, but in the sturcts framework, this seems not to be the way. Do anyone have a good approach? Thanks a lot!

[Marc Peabody]

Well, typically your bean in Struts is the ActionForm and that is declared in the ActionMappings of the struts-config.xml

[forum guest]

If I understand your question correctly, you can use bean define tag to declare your bean.

[Stefan Bell]

I agree use the <bean efine /> tag. Or the <c:set /> tag in jstl.

[Stefan Bell]

I agree use the <bean efine /> tag. Or the <c:set /> tag in jstl.

[JW Li]

K and Stefan, thanks for the help! I will look more into bean and jstl tags.

Marc, sometimes, I want to access beans that are not defined in ActionForm or the action doesn't have a corresponding form, that's when I have the problem to access the beans from jsp. But thanks anyway!

[somkiat puisungnoen]

In my work, i create my JavaBean for use in each jsp page and keep bean into request/session scope.

This solution you not config in struts-config.xml...