Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages™: Volume 1: Core Technologies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 14. Using JavaBeans Components in JSP Documents

Topics in This Chapter

• Understanding the benefits of beans

• Creating beans

• Installing bean classes on your server

• Accessing bean properties

• Explicitly setting bean properties

• Automatically setting bean properties from request parameters

• Sharing beans among multiple servlets and JSP pages

This chapter discusses the third general strategy for inserting dynamic content in JSP pages (see Figure 14-1): by means of JavaBeans components.

Figure 14-1. Strategies for invoking dynamic code from JSP.

Why Use Beans?

OK, so you already understand the benefit of using separate Java classes instead of embedding large ...