I apologize in advance if this topic has come up before, but ...
I'm building a Struts JSP page containing a form. I've noticed that the
HTML tags typically do not require the specification of a "name" attribute
in order to retrieve property values from a bean. If the name isn't
specified, the property value is retrieved from the bean associated with
the form. However, logic tags require the use of the name attribute in
order to retrieve a property. Isn't there some way that the logic tags
could look to see if there is a bean "in scope" and use that bean to
retrieve property values from if no name attribute is specified? The
problem I have is this, I have a portion of a form which is common to more
than one form. I would like to factor out the common stuff into an include
file of some sort. However, the common stuff makes use of a logic tag
(notEqual). I can't factor out this code because I have to explicitly
reference a specific bean name in order for this code to work. However, my
various forms have different bean names associated with them. It's not a
terribly big deal, but it seems as if the name attribute shouldn't have to
be required if some sort of "default" bean is available for the page.
Thanks.
