Hi Tika,
That reference is just standard JSP EL notation that references a getter
method on a bean. So "actionBean.contacts" will execute the method
actionBean.getContacts(). This is a common way that Java/JSP web
applications call into Java classes in order to execute accessor (getter)
methods.
-- Rick
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Tika Spic <trimtostri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently only reading the book "Stripes: ...and Java web development
> is fun again".
> Since I'm not new to web development, I'm able to read this book without
> practicing in editor.
>
> I have spot a problem on page 47 in the following line:
>
> <c:forEach var="contact" items="${actionBean.contacts}">
>
> What is this reference "contacts"? It is not explicitly declared in the
> action bean. It does exist only in this method name:
>
> public List<Contact> getContacts() {
> return contactDao.read();
> }
>
> So, was the "contacts" reference accidentally dropped from the code or
> Stripes perhaps uses implicit declarations according to some naming
> conventions, e.g. method naming? I believe that it was accidentally dropped,
> since in the first chapter a "date" reference was used in similar way, but
> now I'm not sure that there is not some kind of implicit declarations since
> Stripes forces convention over configuration.
>
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