Re: Accessing columns of table - Java server pages

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:40:43 -0400
Message-ID:
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Evrim wrote:

"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe> wrote in message news:76dd6a85928af@uwe...

'Row1, Col1'
<a href='thetarget.jsp?Col2=b&amp;Col3=c'>a</a>
...
'Row2, Col1'
<a href='thetarget.jsp?Col2=e&amp;Col3=f'>d</a>


First of all thank you very much for your reply ....

In this case , I should have a java code that builds query string based on a
loop that goes through the 2-D array , correct ?
Any tips or reading material is extremely apprecited...


JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library) and JSF (Java Server Faces) to the rescue,
specifically, EL (expression language).

<c:forEach items="${outer}" var="${thing}" >
   <a href="thetarget.jsp?Col2=${thing.b};Col3=${thing.c}">
     <c:out value="${thing.a}" />
   </a>
   <br />
</c:forEach>

or some variation thereof. Nowadays, thanks to JSF, we'd prefer the enhanced
EL, that usually uses an octothorpe instead of a dollar sign to indicate an
expression:

     <h:outputText value="#{thing.a}" />

--
Lew

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