I have a bean that is a wrapper around 2 beans. How can access the inner beans ? I want to do it using struts tag library if possible!

Thanks in advance
Sam

If your wrapper bean has a getChild1() type method to access the nested bean then JSTL will make it simple to access this e.g) <c:out value="${parent.child1.attrib}"/>.

Hi Samer-

Say that you have the following setup:

class A {
 ...
}

class B {
 ...
}

class C {
  private A myA;
  private B myB;

  public A getMyA() { ... }

  public B getMyB() { ... }
}

Typically, with the struts tag libraries, you use the name attribute to define the top-level bean and then access nested beans with the property attribute. For example, say you want to use the bean:define tag on a page-scope variable of type C called 'myC' to define myC's A bean as a bean / scripting element:

<bean:define id="myABean" name="myC" property="myA"/>

this will call the getMyA method on the variable myC, and create a bean called "myABean".

HTH,

P

Thanks Paul. Thats what I was looking for :)