hi! you probably call your beans method which was designed and implemented for that purpose. sth. like this: User user = new User(); user.setUserName(loginid); if (theUserValidatorBean.validate(user)) dosth... else dosthelse in UserValidatorBean you eighter have a list (or a map, or...) to find out whether the user with the given userid exists on your system, or you connect to a database to check that, or you parse a file, or your Bean has functionality implemented which makes it possible for it to call you via telephone and ask whether this user should be allowed to log in or not... btw, you can find out if the username is null and more then "" with (userid!=null && !"".equals(userid)).
-mw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shyamal Bhowmik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:01 AM Subject: help i have the following code <%@ page import="java.sql.*,java.util.*,java.lang.*,users.*" %> <jsp:useBean id="user" scope="session" class="users.uservalidity"/> <% try { session=request.getSession(false); String loginid=(String)session.getValue("username"); user.setUserName(loginid); if(!(user.validateUser())) { response.sendRedirect("user.jsp"); %> <% } else return ; now if i want to access the loginid ina bean which checks whether the username is null or not how do i accomplish this please help someone i am just a starter in this field ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html