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A tag library such as the one that comes with the Blazix
server, may not be available in your environment. How can you
allow similar features without using a tag library?
It is a little tedious, but it can be done. Basically, you must edit each HTML tag yourself, and put in a default value. The following examples shows how we modify GetName.jsp to provide features similar to blx:getProperty but with manual HTML tag editing: <jsp:useBean id="user" class="user.UserData" scope="session"/> <HTML> <BODY> <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="SaveName.jsp"> What's your name? <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=username SIZE=20 VALUE="<%= user.getUsername() %>"><BR> What's your e-mail address? <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=email SIZE=20 VALUE="<%= user.getEmail() %>"><BR> What's your age? <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=age SIZE=4 VALUE=<%= user.getAge() %>> <P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML>As you can see, this simply involves adding a "VALUE" field in the INPUT tags, and initializing the field with an expression! To handle exceptions during input processing, a simple approach is to
use "String" fields in the bean, and do the conversion to the
target datatype yourself. This will allow you to handle exceptions.
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