Horay! You are the first person to actually see and acknowledge the problem.
So far I have only recieved comments about the difference between the hash
and the non hash version - which I get. But no one has explained why in the
case of #2 OGNL returns null and not the value of the property as in #
To continue, the first one (probably; I'm still a
little fuzzy on OGNL sometimes) works because if a
property isn't found in the action it will continue
looking on the stack until it finds it or runs out.
Now, as to why #2 "doesn't work", I'm a little hazier
on that: perhaps when OGNL has an expre
in OGNL there is always an object that is the "root", so %{name} is
actually calling root.getName(). The "#" is used to reference
something else than the root. In your views, your action will be the
OGNL root (unless some tag pushes something to the stack), to refer to
your property you would need
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