Integrating Old School JSP Development Methods with new school ideas

I am refactoring some old JSP code, trying to use JSTL and I am running
into a problem, hopefully someone can help me.

In the JSP, it accesses a Bean that returns an ActionPlan object that I
write the values of out in a web form, for example, at the top of the
form I have:

<% ActionPlan ap1 = iBean.getActionPlan(request.getParameter("id")); %>

and then, throughout the web form, I have
<input type="text" value="<%= ap1.getTitle() %>" />

This works great for most things, but I would like to pass
ap1.getTitle() as an attribute value for a custom tag.  For example:

<mytag:ActionPlanStatusPickList selected="${ap1.getStatus()}" />

The problem is, it doesn't seem that ap1.getStatus() is available as an
EL expression.

Any ideas how to overcome this?

thanks

-- brian

Brian Munroe <brian.e.munroe@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am refactoring some old JSP code, trying to use JSTL and I am running
> into a problem, hopefully someone can help me.
>
> In the JSP, it accesses a Bean that returns an ActionPlan object that I
> write the values of out in a web form, for example, at the top of the
> form I have:
>
> <% ActionPlan ap1 = iBean.getActionPlan(request.getParameter("id")); %>
>
> and then, throughout the web form, I have
> <input type="text" value="<%= ap1.getTitle() %>" />
>
> This works great for most things, but I would like to pass
> ap1.getTitle() as an attribute value for a custom tag.  For example:
>
> <mytag:ActionPlanStatusPickList selected="${ap1.getStatus()}" />
>
> The problem is, it doesn't seem that ap1.getStatus() is available as an
> EL expression.

Can you access the bean "ap1"? If so, you can probably access the property
"ap1.title".


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Oscar kind wrote:

>
> Can you access the bean "ap1"? If so, you can probably access the
property
> "ap1.title".
>

I suppose I can make that attribute public and try it that way..

thanks

-- brian