How does nested syntax in property attribute work

[Nick Afshartous]

Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004 writes:
 > In some of the e-mails I have seen nested syntax being used for property attribute, 
 >e.g.,
 > 
 > <html:text property="mailingAddress.street"/>
 > 
 > what does that mean? Is it that the getMailingAddress() method of
the bean will be called, 

Yes.

 > and then what is ".street" for?

the property reference above translates to

     getMailingAddress().getstreet()

Clink on the link to "Bean tags" on the Struts home page for more
info.
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        Nick