Question on jsp:useBean from HFS

[PNS Subramanian]

Page 356 of HFS, states the following question

<jsp:useBean id="person" type="foo.Person">
<jsp:setProperty name="person" property="name" value="Fred"/>
</jsp:useBean>

Name : <jsp:getProperty name="person" property="name"/>

And the question # 3)

foo.Employee person = new foo.Employee();
person.setName("Evan");
request.setAttribute("person",person);

is said to give an output of "Evan" - the reason being that, control won't enter the body of useBean tag if type attribute is used.

When i tried the same example, the following is what i get
"javax.servlet.ServletException: bean person not found within scope"

However, when i have the useBean tag as

<jsp:useBean id="person" type="foo.Employee" scope="request">

i get "Evan" as the output. I dont find a mention of this in Errata as well.
Am i missing something here?

Env :Tomcat 5.0.30/Win XP

[shiva viswanathan]

Hi

When you dont specify the scope the scope defaults to page scope.

The bean has been set in the request scope . Hence the first scenario
doesnt work since there is no bean with the specufied name in the page scope

However when we specify scope as re

[shiva viswanathan]

Hi

When you dont specify the scope the scope defaults to page scope.

The bean has been set in the request scope . Hence the first scenario
doesnt work since there is no bean with the specufied name in the page scope

However when we specify scope as request , then it is able to find the required bean since we had set it into session

[PNS Subramanian]

Shiva,

Appreciate your quick response.

There is no scope mentioned in HFSJ question - so shouldn't there be an exception raised ? However, the book states that the above would work with "Evan" being the output.

The act of introducing scope="request" was my attempt to make it work.

[shiva viswanathan]

Hi

This has been pointed out in the errata of HFSJ

I had the same doubt in fact but once i looked at errata it was clear

Please have a look at that chapter's errata