Dear friends of JSTL I'm new to JSTL and looking for some ideas how to maintain collections with JSTL and EL.
I have a bean with a List and a Map type property like this: public class TestBean { private List list = new ArrayList(); private Map map = new HashMap(); public TestBean () { list.add("initial value 1"); list.add("initial value 2"); map.put ("simple value","the initial simple value"); map.put ("listvalue", list ); } public List getList() { return list; } public Map getMap() { return map; } } Getting the values from my collections is easy and elegant: <c:forEach var="litem" items="${testbean.listitems}" > <c:out value="${litem}"/><br/> </c:forEach> <c:forEach var="mitem" items="${testbean.map}" > <c:out value="${mitem.key}"/> = <c:out value="${mitem.value}"/><br/> </c:forEach> But how to add a new items to the collections? I tried this <c:set target="${testbean}" property="list" value="${myvalue}"/> But this bean method public void setList( String value ) { list.add ( value ); } does not work because it does not meet the parameter expectations ( List vs. String ) for beans. I know that I can write more setZZZ() methods to add something to the List but it breaks somehow the naming conventions for beans (getXxx, setXxx). And how to add a new entry to the map? Thanks in advance Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>