Sure,
all you have to do is write a method on the bean like
public String getHTML() {
return ("<b>Hello World</b>");
}
and then put the tags
<jsp:useBean id="myBean" class="myBean" scope="page" />
<jsp:getProperty name="myBean" property="HTML"/>
in the JSP. But this brings up a question I have been struggling with:
What is the better way of generating html, having the bean do it through a
method or including it in the JSP. I know that it is the intention of the
JSP designers to seperate HTML from Java code and vis-versa but for example
you have a bean which represents multiple choices that a user has made. do
you:
1) have a single method on the bean that returns the
"<select>...</select>
or
2) put in the jsp
<select name=<jsp:expr>mySelectBean.getName()</jsp:expr>>
<% for(int i=0;i<mySelectBean.getNumberOfItems();i++) { %>
<option><jsp:expr>mySelectBean.getName()</jsp:expr></option>
....
</select>
now 1) seems to obfuscate some code from the HTML designer, but two
seems pretty much like Java code in the JSP which is better? opinions?
Brendan
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