JSP-Bean question

[Adrian Muscalu]

Hi guys,
In a JSP page I have to collect the same data type belonging to a variable number of persons. I can place the components (first name, last name, etc) in a "for" statement to display x times but I don't know how to collect them in a bean.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Adrian

[greg philpott]

every thing in its place.
create a class like this:

class Person{
    String firstName;
    String lastName;
    //etc . . .
    public String toString() {
        return firstName + ", " + lastName;
    }
}

and use this bean in your class - have an array of them.
then your loop will look something like this:

Person[] people;
// fill in this array however you want
// then loop
for(int i =0; i<people.length; i++) {
    people[i].toString;
}

so your loop is short and your data is in its bean.
[ March 16, 2002: Message edited by: greg philpott ]

[Adrian Muscalu]

I'm not sure th above solution will suit me... I was looking for something like "press the SUBMIT button and all the data in the jsp page to fill firstName[], lastName[], etc" in the bean. It works just fine for textboxes; if I have multiple textboxes with the same name on a page and the correspondent method in the bean to receive an array instead of a simple String, all it's done automatically. With one exception. The radio objects. This is because if multiple radio objects have the same name, only one value will be submitted. I couldn't find a solution for the radio objects.
I would appreciate any help in this direction, I've already spent too much time for this problem.
Best regards,
Adrian
[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: Adrian Muscalu ]