Why not just specify the name attribute in the html:textarea tag with
the attribute equal to the name of the bean, in your case requestDTO.
That's what I do and it works well for me.
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 20:45, Kelvin wu wrote:
> try to use html-el tag
>
> <html-el:textarea property="comments" rows="4" cols="50"
> value="${sessionScope.requestDTO.comments}"/>
>
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> From: "Matt E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:23 AM
> Subject: Writing values from javabeans to html tags.
>
>
> > Hello All!
> >
> > I'm trying to give an inital value to one of the
> > fields in a form in an application of mine.
> >
> > I had tried this:
> >
> > <html:textarea property="comments" rows="4" cols="50"
> > value="<%=requestDTO.getComments()%>"
> >
> > Since I had read that you couldn't use bean:write tag
> > in the value attribute of the html tags. However this
> > gives me an error in tomcat:
> >
> > org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile
> > /int0/opt/tomcat/b331/work/DEFAULT/tir/pla/ReviewRequest_3.java:899:
> > Undefined variable or class name: requestDTO
> >
> > _jspx_th_html_textarea_0.setValue(requestDTO.getComments());
> >
> > The bean in question (requestDTO) is session scoped.
> > I can use <bean:write> to write out the value, so I
> > know it's there.
> >
> > What do I need to do so that
> > <%=requestDTO.getComments()%> works also?
> >
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