html:text problem...

[Timothy Sam]

I didn't know what title to put in this topic so forgive me mods...

If I had several <html:text> tags that pointed to a single attribute like

<html:text property="firstName"/><html:text property="lastName"/>
<html:text property="firstName"/><html:text property="lastName"/>
<html:text property="firstName"/><html:text property="lastName"/>
<html:text property="firstName"/><html:text property="lastName"/>

and these attributes (firstName and lastName) are ArrayList<String>, would I be able to store them as an ArrayList of strings? I need to do this from my JSP and then process it in my Action class... Any help? Thanks!

[Timothy Sam]

Just to clarify... I had this JSP where I had these fields...

  <html:text property="employment.from"/> <html:text property="employment.to"/> <html:text property="employment.position"/> <html:text property="employment.company"/>
  <br/>
  <html:text property="employment.from"/> <html:text property="employment.to"/> <html:text property="employment.position"/> <html:text property="employment.company"/>
  <br/>
  <html:text property="employment.from"/> <html:text property="employment.to"/> <html:text property="employment.position"/> <html:text property="employment.company"/>
  <br/>
  <html:text property="employment.from"/> <html:text property="employment.to"/> <html:text property="employment.position"/> <html:text property="employment.company"/>
  

and I have this Abean...

package beans;
 
import java.util.ArrayList;
 
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
 
public class EmploymentFormBean extends org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm
{
String[] employmentId;
String applicantId;
String[] from;
String[] to;
String[] position;
String[] company;
ArrayList<EmploymentFormBean> employmentHistory;

 
public EmploymentFormBean()
{
//employmentId = "";
applicantId = "";
//from = "";
//to = "";
//position = "";
//company = "";
}

public String[] getEmploymentId() 
{
return employmentId;
}

public void setEmploymentId(String[] employmentId) 
{
this.employmentId = employmentId;
}
 
public String getApplicantId() 
{
return applicantId;
}
 
public void setApplicantId(String applicantId) 
{
this.applicantId = applicantId;
}

public String[] getCompany() 
{
return company;
}

public void setCompany(String[] company) 
{
this.company = company;
}


public String[] getFrom() 
{
return from;
}

public void setFrom(String[] from) 
{
this.from = from;
}

public String[] getPosition() 
{
return position;
}

public void setPosition(String[] position) 
{
this.position = position;
}

public String[] getTo() 
{
return to;
}

public void setTo(String[] to) 
{
this.to = to;
}
 
public ArrayList<EmploymentFormBean> getEmploymentHistory() 
{
return employmentHistory;
}
 
public void setEmploymentHistory(ArrayList<EmploymentFormBean> employmentHistory) 
{
this.employmentHistory = employmentHistory;
}

    public void reset(ActionMapping actionMapping, HttpServletRequest request) 
    {
    }
 
    public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping actionMapping, HttpServletRequest request) 
    {
        return null;
    }
 
}

I'm really trying to avoid this...

${applicant.employment.from[0]}
${applicant.employment.from[1]}

and I'm also trying to avoid the use of String[]... If you could propose a better solution, I would appreicate it... If not, then I have no choice but to stick to my method... Thanks!