Question

I am a beginner in JSP and need some help. I started out with this bit of code inside one of my first JSP pages

<%
    LoginService user = new LoginService();
%>

Hello <%=user.getUserID() %>!

And works just fine. I imported the LoginService class correctly and that bit of code works! But now I am learning JSTL and trying to convert the above to JSTL tags. So I got off on the right foot but need some help finishing. So far I have

<jsp:useBean id="user" class="org.test.LoginService"></jsp:useBean>

But I’m having trouble converting that last Hello line into a JSTL tag! I can’t figure out how to reference the method getUserID() like I did in the JSP tag. I’ve come this far on my own but need some help finishing up! Any response would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You can use:

<jsp:getProperty name="user" property="userID" /> 

but better to use:

${user.userID}