Jsp setProperty

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Jsp setProperty

This action tag is to set an input value to set input value to a property on a variable of bean class by calling setter () method of the property.

When use JSP setPriority tag

When a request comes from browser, the protocol is http and it is unknown for the java bean. So, directly input values from browser can't be send to a java bean.

The flow of setting input values is, a jsp page takes request from browser and it will set input values to bean using tag.

<jsp:setProperty> must be used inside <jsp:useBean> tag.

<jsp:setProperty> property contains four attributes, they are;

Name and property attributes are mandatory. We shouldn't use param and value attribute at time.

If request parameters names and variable name of java beans or matched then we can directly write <protperty="*">.

Attribute	Description
Name	Object name: The values of this attribute must be same as the value of id of the bean class
Property	variable name in bean class
Param	request parameter name
Value	static value

Name, property,value	allowed
Name ,property, param	allowed
Property, param	not allowed
Name, property,name, param	not allowed.

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