You lost me with that page too. The use of the word widget threw me completely because I am used to seeing it reference to a concrete component :)
I understand how to write the struts tag. Let's step back a bit. I'll see if I can explain this better. My question is how do I reference the collection for use in the when it is stored via an attribute in the servlet context - ie the ServletContext.setAttribute(attributeName, attributeValue) method without using a scriptlet. I have a servlet, loaded on startup, that in the init(ServletConfig) method, creates a List of beans containing state information - name and abbreviation. I have added this to the servlet context under the attribute name of "states". The value for the name attribute in the html:optionsCollection tag would be "application" - the implicit JSP variable that refers to the servlet context that the page is in. Now the problem lies in the value for the property attribute of the html:optionsCollection. It is supposed to be a property of "name" such that is just a getBlah() method. However this is impossible on the servlet context, because the collection resides as part of the attribute map within the session context. The attribute name in the map is "states", but I can't use "states" as the property value because there is no getStates() method under ServletContext. How do I retrieve this collection out of the servlet context attribute map for use in the html:optionsCollection tag WITHOUT using a scriptlet to make the collection available as some page scoped collection? Is this possible? I don't want scriptlets exposed in the JSP page itself. If I have to use one I will just write a tag to do it. Chris On 3/1/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/1/06, Chris Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael, > > > > Thanks for the reference, but it doesn't explain very much. > > > > Yes the widget looks like what I want, but is it something I download? > > You lost me. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
