Question

I would like the following code to work, but have no idea as to how to get at the form bean outside of a struts tag.

<logic:equal name="model" property="answerType" value="TEXT">
 <%
  String keyval = "questionAnswer" + "(" + model.getAnswerType() + ")";
 %>
 <html:text property="<%= keyval %>" value=""></html:text>    
</logic:equal>

Is there any way to get at a struts form bean in a JSP so that I can use something more than struts tags to perform some processing?

Sorry if this is terribly basic but perhaps the way to put it is : is there a way for a JSP page to interact with a struts form bean without using struts tags that are form bean aware?

Answer 1

based on form bean scope definition (session, request or …) in you xml file you can get the from object from that scope :

example session:

MyFormBean m = (MyFormBean) session.getAttribute("<form bean name>");

you can even use JSP or JSTL tags to get this object from the scope.