That is what I have right now...and is ofcourse very simple to do it in FormBeans :). But I have to do this at a number of places/form beans, so I was wondering if it could be done using bean:message as I mentioned in the subject of this e-mail (not necessarily bean:write).
Thanks!
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Yup, formatKey is pretty handy. We use it to format dates. But <bean:write> tag seems to do this only when converting from non-String data type to String datatype. What I have is a String '123456789'. One solution is to probably convert this to Integer and that will force it to use a number formatter.
You've hit the nail on the head! You're trying to edit a string, while the bean:write formatter (and, for that matter, the JSTL <fmt:formatNumber...> and <fmt:formatDate...> tags )translate from something else to a string.
The easy way out here is to just write a getter in your FormBean that returns the SSN string with the appropriate punctuation inserted.
-- Tim Slattery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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