You do not have to do any declarations (of the <%! %> type) to do what you
want to do.
You would probably have to import the Employee class, is all. If Employee
lived in a package com.mycom, just do <%@ page import="com.mycom.Employee"
%>
I personally never use the JavaBean framework, e.g. jsp:useBean,
jsp:whatever. I just use scriptlets.
My Employee class's interface would probably look something like this:
public class Employee
{
public static Employee[] getAllEmployees() { ... }
public static Employee getEmployee(int id) { ... }
public static Employee createEmployee(String firstname, ...) { ... }
private Employee(int id, String firstName, ...) { ... }
public int getId() { ... }
public void setFirstName(String firstName) { ... }
public String getFirstName() { ... }
...
}
Note that this is not a JavaBean, and you probably wouldn't write the class
this way if you intended to turn it into a JavaBean. (Hopefully someone
else can point out the differences.)
Anyway, your servlet:
request.setAttribute("employees", com.mycom.Employee.getAllEmployees());
request.getRequestDispatcher("path_to_jsp").forward(request, response);
your JSP:
<%@ page import="com.mycom.Employee" %>
Employee[] employees = (Employee[])request.getAttribute("employees");
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