How to use JavaBeans with Escenic tags

JavaBeans are very important when using the Escenic tags. The JavaBeans the tags are working with are primary Escenic objects. To get a better picture of the Escenic JavaBeans see the Bean Reference. These beans can be in any scope: page, request, session or application. But the primary scope we use is page.

In the Escenic tag libraries there are two ways to get the properties from JavaBeans. To use name/property attributes in our tags, or use the <util:valueof param="..."> tag. See util:valueof for further information.

In the following examples we will only show one of the possible methods to get the attributes.