Web Forms and Form Beans

Here is a skeletal look at the login form in login.jsp

• Note the Struts html:form tag and the html:text tags within its body
  • The render the part of the page that puts up the input fields for the user to enter
  • They name properties of a Javabean that will hold the user name and password strings entered by the user
• Recall: a Javabean is just a Java object that follows certain naming conventions
  • two fields called userName and password
  • access methods are called getUserName(), setUserName(), getPassword(), and setPassword()
• Struts calls these beans form beans
• Struts will set the properties of the form bean when the user submits the form
• How does Struts know which bean the property attribute of the html:text tag is accessing?