Servlet to Bean to JSP problem

[Bob Backlund]

Hi guy

Having a little trouble with Servlets & Benas, wondering if you could help.

I have a simple servlet that lets a users enter some data, the servlet then access' a database and retrieves appropriate data based on what the user entered (basically you put in a code servlet retrieves product info), then the servlet redirects to a JSP which calls the bean and displays the data (still with me?)...

Now I want to put this info into a bean so that it can be retrieved at any time, but I can't for the life of me remember how you create an instance of the bean and populate it from a servlet. I have looked all over and can't find any examples (decent ones anyway).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

K

[Jeroen Wenting]

MyBeam myBean  = new MyBean();
myBean.setMyField(myData);
request.setAttribute("mybean", myBean);

Looking for something like this?

[Ben Souther]

I have looked all over and can't find any examples (decent ones anyway).

http://simple.souther.us

SimpleMVC does this.

[Bob Backlund]

Cheers everyone, that appears to solve my problem.

[David O'Meara]

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thanks,
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[Kevin P Smith]

Having a mare with this JavaBean stuff. The servlet is now storing data in the bean and using System.out I can see that the setField(String s) has a value, but when I redirect to the JSP the getField returns 'null', it's like the bean is loosing the values somewhere.

[Graham VMead]

Hi Keith,

Just my thoughts, if you are doing a redirect then the control is passed back to the browser which reissues a new request.

Are you storing the bean in the request? If so redirect will mean you get a new request at the jsp and the bean will be created empty.

See paragraph 2 of this link

Javapractices

You could possible use forward or store the bean in the session and declare it as session scope in the jsp.

If youre not using redirect then its some other problem.

HTH Graham

[ February 18, 2005: Message edited by: Graham VMead ]
[ February 18, 2005: Message edited by: Graham VMead ]

[Kevin P Smith]

ar yes, i am using redirect. I knew I'd seen the solution somewhere before, but couldn't for the life of me remember it.

I think that was it though

Cheers

[Ben Souther]

Originally posted by K Secker:
ar yes, i am using redirect. I knew I'd seen the solution somewhere before, but couldn't for the life of me remember it.

I think that was it though

Cheers

You can either forward with a requestDispatcher instead of redirecting, or store the values in session instead of request scope.

Again, SimpleMVC at http://simple.souther.us does exactly what you're trying to do.

[Kevin P Smith]

Nope still didn't do it

code:
RequestDispatcher rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("success.jsp");
rd.forward(request, response);

The setField value is there but getFeild is 'null', this has got to be so simple I can;t believe I can't do it!

I give up, ain;t worth it.

[Ben Souther]

getRequestDispatcher("/success.jsp");

[Ben Souther]

Did you look at the example I gave you?

[Kevin P Smith]

Dunno if you'll read this, but cheers.

Sorry for the delay, I took a couple of days off.

changing the bean scope from session to request done it!!!

[Ben Souther]

That'll do it.

Thanks for posting back.