This is a very FAQ. You should read the JSTL specification. The EL can only reference standard JavaBean properties, collections, and maps. If you only have a couple of constants to reference, I would put them into session or application properties in your application init logic. If you have many constants, you might consider having a class use reflection to grab all the constants in a class and put them into a hashmap, keyed by the variable name.
-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Seynaeve Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 1:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Accessing static field using EL I have problems accessing a static field using the Struts Expression Language. The goal is to put the names of all the form bean instance names, ... in static String fields and use those fields throughout as much files as possible. This to eliminate frantic debugging sessions due to typo's <g>. This is a code snippet: public class SessionNumberForm extends AbisDynaActionForm { public static final String SESSION_NUMBER = "sessionNr"; ... } Here I try to access the field: <html:text property="${SessionNumberForm.SESSION_NUMBER}" /> but it gives following error: [ServletException in:/WEB-INF/tiles/index.jsp] No getter method for property ${SessionNumberForm.SESSION_NUMBER} of bean org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BEAN' How could this field be accessed? Thanks, Eric --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
