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Hi,

The lastName property is "Smith Jones", but only "Smith" is displayed.

When I view the browser source I see

so in html the quotes are missing as in value="Smith Jones"

When I save the html and change it to

"Smith Jones" is displayed properly.

Lines 26 and 27 contain is where the issue is.

I have also tried using
value='<jsp:getProperty name="employee" property="lastName" />'
that I found when googling jsp:getproperty truncates bean data at first blank.

How do I get the quotes into the property?

Thanks,

Lou

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Updated Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>New Employee Information</h2>
<%@ page import="java.lang.Double" %>

<jsp:useBean id="employee" class="exercises.beans.DeveloperBean" scope="request"  />

<% String fName = (String) request.getParameter("fName"); %>
<jsp:setProperty name="employee" property="firstName" value="<%= fName %>"/>

<% String lName = (String) request.getParameter("lName"); %>
<jsp:setProperty name="employee" property="lastName" value="<%= lName %>"/>

<% double salary=Double.parseDouble(request.getParameter("salary")); %>
<jsp:setProperty name="employee" property="devSalary" value="<%= salary %>" />

First Name:   <input type=text name="fName"
	value=<jsp:getProperty name="employee" property="firstName" />> <p>
Last Name:   <input type=text name="lName"
	value=<jsp:getProperty name="employee" property="lastName" />> <p>
Salary:       $ <input type=text name="salary"
	value=<jsp:getProperty name="employee" property="devSalary"/>> <p>

</body>
</html>

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The highest level observation is that using scriptlets and antiques like <jsp:getProperty> is about 10 years out of date.

But the easy answer is: value="<jsp:getProperty name="employee" property="lastName"/>">

The quotes should be in the template text, not in the value of the property.

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