Indexed Property and Hand Cranking Lazy List

[Adam K]

Hello all, I am sorry to subject this list to yet another person who doesn't
understand something, but I can't for the life of me figure out hand
cranking lazy lists.

I am using 1.2.9 with java 1.5.0_06 And I can't get lazy lists to work.

I am trying to use what I found at :

http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsCatalogLazyList

And as such have :
In the ProdSelectionFrom:

     private List skills = new ArrayList();

     public List getSkills() {
         return skills;
     }

     // non-bean version so as not to confuse struts.
     public void populateSkills(List skills) {
         this.skills.addAll(skills);
      }

     public void setSkills(Product skill) {
         this.skills.add(skill);
     }

     public Product getSkills(int index) {

         // automatically grow List size
         while (index >= skills.size()) {
             skills.add(new Product());
         }

         return (Product)skills.get(index);
     }

In the JSP:

  <logic:iterate name="ProdSelectionForm" property="skills" id="skills">
   <tr>
       <td>
                  <html:text name="skills" property="skillId"
indexed="true"/>
       </td>
   </tr>
  </logic:iterate>

And can't even get this to display properly.
I am getting the error message:

No getter method for property: "skills" of bean: "ProdSelectionForm"
javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: No
getter method for property: "skills" of bean: "ProdSelectionForm"


Could someone please point me in the right direction as I am at my wits end
on this.

The entire point of what I am trying to do is to be able to post a list of
information about a product (such as description, number, price etc) and
allow the user to edit the number and have them submit the form so that I
can update a database with a new order.
I am using a product Object which has all of the characteristics mentioned
before as well as others, and each of them have publically available getter
and setter methods.

I would also like to confirm that the comment I read that I should be using
strictly strings when dealing with the jsp is correct - can someone confirm
that  ?
Also is there a problem using ArrayList over List ?

Thanks so much for any thoughts/ time you can give me.