Hi, An alternative would be to do what the jsp processor does. Write your own piece of code that uses reflection to determine what "setters" exist for the bean and match those up with the request parameter names. If you do some searching, you may find some free open source that does this already. John Zerbe
-----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dani Pardo Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:53 PM To: SERVLET-INTEREST@JAVA.SUN.COM Subject: Re: Filling-in a Bean inside a Servlet > Can I fill all the properties of the Bean magically on a line, The > same way that the jsp does it via <jsp:setProperty property="*"> ??? > There must be a trick or a workaround, because this method doesn't > scale. There must be some trick to achieve to get a Customer object as a > parameter: Hi, I respond to myself. I've done intensing search and I've finally get on the conclusion that it can't be done: When using Servlets and JSPs, you play with FORM parameters on the jsp side, and play with attaching attributes on the Servlet side. Acutally, it's almost the same I've been doing with Perl CGIs and Template Toolkit. To do the magic-bean-populating trick, you have to use some esoteric framwork like Struts: From http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Struts-Tutorial/ "With Struts, the normal processing flow is that a form submits data to a URL of the form blah.do. That address is mapped by struts-config.xml to an Action object, whose execute method handles the request. One of the arguments to execute is a form bean that is automatically created and whose properties are automatically populated with the incoming form data. The Action object then invokes business logic and data-access logic, placing the results in normal beans stored in request, session, or application scope." -- Dani Pardo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enplater S.A ___________________________________________________________________________ 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 The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and is intended solely for the use of the named addressee. Access, copying or re-use of the e-mail or any information contained therein by any other person is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient please notify us immediately by returning the e-mail to the originator.(16b) ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
