Eric,
I think you need to put your fb object in the user's session. To do this,
put the following code in your process method.
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
session.setAttribute("myFormBean", fb);
Regards,
Richard
At 09:57 PM 2/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Now I'm going crazy. This can't be so hard. Please help... I can't figure
>this out. I'm trying to share a bean between a jsp page and servlet.
>Argghhhhhhhhh... Please.... I help on other lists... and donate time to
>charity. I've been to Barnes and Noble and looked at a heap of texts. I've
>done no less than 500 Google searches.
>
>
>There are no errors, I just can't get this "<jsp:getProperty
>name="myFormBean" property="userName" />" goddamned thing to display the
>userName bean property if fb.validate() fails. Everything works. I've got
>this begugger and can see the userName variable throughout the POST process.
>Everything's cool until the rd.forward (request, response), but once the
>forward takes place my jsp cannot again pick up the bean properties
>eventhough I say <jsp:useBean id="myFormBean" class="beans.FormBean"
>scope="session"/> I've tried every scope, and am using beans with straight
>JSP no problem (same application).
>
>Any ideas? Millions of Thanks
>
>
>Here's the JSP page.
>===============
><jsp:useBean id="myFormBean" class="beans.FormBean" scope="session"/>
><form method="POST" action="controller">
><input type="text" name="userName">
><jsp:getProperty name="myFormBean" property="userName" />
><input type="hidden" name="event" value="FORM_TEST">
><input type="submit" name="submit" value="next">
></form>
>
>Here's the two relavant parts of the servlet.
>================================
>public void process (ServletContext sc, HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response)
> throws IOException, ServletException {
>
> FormBean fb = new FormBean();
> fb.setUserName(request.getParameter("userName"));
>
> if (fb.validate()) {
> URL = "index.jsp";
> } else {
> // go back
> URL = "signup1.jsp";
> }
>}
>public void forward (HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException,
> ServletException {
>
> RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher(URL);
> rd.forward (request, response);
>}
>
>Here's the bean
>===========
>package beans;
>public class FormBean implements java.io.Serializable {
> public String userName;
> public FormBean() {}
> public boolean validate() {
> boolean allOk=false;
> return allOk;
> }
>
> public String getUserName() {
> //return this.userName; // doesn't work either
> return userName;
> }
> public void setUserName(String uname) {
> this.userName = uname;
> }
>}
>
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