Dinesh on Java: SetProperty Tag in JSP

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SetProperty tag in JSP is used to set properties of the JAVA bean.

General syntex of JSP setProperty Tag look like this:
Syntax:

<jsp:setProperty name="xyz" property="xyz" value="xyz"/>

The code include a package bean , we have a class Employees. The employee class include a string variable first name, last name and address. Inside the class we have a setter and getter method.
1. set XXX ( ): This method hold the value of the parameter by the implementor of interface.
2. get XXX( ): This method retrieve the value of the parameter set in the setXXX () method.
The JSP page uses this getter and setter method.

<jsp:useBean> -
1. The < jsp:use Bean> instantiate a bean class and locate a bean class with specific scope and name.

id - A id variable is used to identify the bean in the scope .
class -The class is represented as Package. class and instantiate a bean from class. The class should be public
scope -This describe you the scope of the bean in which it exists.

2. <jsp:set Property> This is used to set the value of one or more properties of bean using setter method. The value of the name must match with the Id.
3. <jsp:get Property> This is used to return the bean property value using property getter method in bean package.

Example-
Employee.java

package com.dineshonjava.bean;

/**
 * @author Dinesh Rajput
 *
 */
public class Employee {
 private String firstName;
 private String lastName;
 private String address;
 
 public String getFirstName() {
  return firstName;
 }
 public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
  this.firstName = firstName;
 }
 public String getLastName() {
  return lastName;
 }
 public void setLastName(String lastName) {
  this.lastName = lastName;
 }
 public String getAddress() {
  return address;
 }
 public void setAddress(String address) {
  this.address = address;
 }
 
}

index.jsp

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<html>
 <body>
  <h1>Employee Form Bean Value</h1>
    <jsp:useBean id="emp" class="com.dineshonjava.bean.Employee" scope="page" />
        
    <jsp:setProperty name="emp" property="firstName" value="Dinesh"/>
    <jsp:setProperty name="emp" property="lastName" value="Rajput"/>
    <jsp:setProperty name="emp" property="address" value="Noida"/>
        
     <table>
      <tr>
       <td>First Name</td>
       <td> : </td>
       <td> <jsp:getProperty name="emp" property="firstName"/> </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
       <td>Last Name</td>
       <td> : </td>
       <td> <jsp:getProperty name="emp" property="lastName"/> </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
       <td>Address</td>
       <td> : </td>
       <td> <jsp:getProperty name="emp" property="address"/> </td>
      </tr>
     </table>
        
  </body>
</html>

Copy myapp folder on webapp directory of tomcat at
C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\webapps\

and restart server and hit the following URL
http://localhost:8080/myapp/index.jsp

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