At 02:23 PM 1/10/2003, you wrote:
This is the "correct" way to do what you're trying to do. This is just my opinion, but if you're new to servlet/jsp programming and you're really trying to get a good foundation, ditch the jsps and focus on understanding the concepts behind servlets. Once you've got servlets nailed, you'll find that jsps are just a shorthand way of coding servlets. Too many people start out with both and get confused because you've got twice as many terms for the same number of things. This is especially true for the jsp "scope" notion, but, as you're finding is the same way for bean usage.Oh, okay -- a slip of the mind there. Is this the official way to do it, because I can't find in my book (Core Servlets) where it says that the <jsp:useBean> tag knows to look in the session for the string used in the "id" attribute.No, the line of thought is correct but there are two problems:My first guess was that in LoginServlet I could call// "ub" is reference variable of instantiated UserBean HttpSession session = getServletContext().getSession(); session.setAttribute("nameOfInstance", ub); But I do not think that this is right. Later JSPs can access this instance of UserBean using id="ub" ????
1) there is no getSession() in ServletContext, use getSession() in HttpServletRequest. (HttpSession, as the name suggests, is specific to HTTP while ServletContext is application layer protocol agnostic).
2) id attribute in the jsp:useBean tag would be "nameOfInstance", not "ub".
I want to avoid using a workaround since I'm just starting out.
justin
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