Using Struts 1.1b3 on Tomcat 4.1.18 First let me state my problem: I found that some <nested> tags were failing because they were trying to retrieve a property from the wrong bean. I get the classic "No getter method for property foo of bean bar". Except, "bar" isn't the bean that it should've been looking at. For a more in-depth description of the problem please refer to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=104463384710605&w=2.
My attempt to debug this problem have lead me to the org.apache.jasper.runtime.TagHandlerPool class. What I have found is that a call to the get(NestedWriteTag) method results in the TagHandlerPool object returning -- or should I say, recycling -- a previously used NestedWriteTag. I know that this is how it's supposed to work. The problem with this -- in this case -- is that the NestedWriteTag that is returned isn't initialized; in particular the value of "name" property is as it was set during its previous use. The current use of this tag proceeds to set the "property" property only. Needless to say, when it tries to retrieve the property from the named bean, it fails. This, in my analysis is the cause of my problem. Now, I don't understand the inner workings and/or responsibilities of the servlet container or a tag. So, I don't know who is at fault here: the TagHandlerPool for not initializing the tag or the generated page logic that uses it. Can you help? Sri
