Adding to beans

Question

I will completely shorten this post just so i can get a roungh idea. I have a competitor bean like so.
package myWork;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.Vector;
public class CompetitorBean {
     String nationality;
     String firstName;
     String lastName;
     String timeSet;
     public CompetitorBean(){
     //no param constructor (default) to comply with javabean rules     
     public void setNationality(String n){
          nationality = n;
     public void setFirstName(String f){
          firstName = f;
     public void setLastName(String l){
          lastName = l;
     public void setTimeSet(String t){
          timeSet = t;
     public Vector searchCompetitors(String event2, String round2)throws SQLException{
          String event = event2;
          String round = round2;
          return CompetitorInfo.searchCompetitors(event, round);
}And i also have a CompetitorInfo class like so
package myWork;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.Vector;
/**Class which creates a CompetitorInfo Object*/
public class CompetitorInfo {
     private String nationality;
     private String firstName;
     private String lastName;
     private String timeSet;
     /**param constructor requiring 4 parameters*/
     public CompetitorInfo(String nationality, String firstName, String lastName, String timeSet)
          this.nationality = nationality;
          this.firstName = firstName;
          this.lastName = lastName;
          this.timeSet = timeSet;
     public static void initialize()
          CompetitorDAO.initialize();
     public static void terminate()
          CompetitorDAO.terminate();
     public static CompetitorInfo newCompetitor(String nationality, String firstName, String lastName, String timeSet)throws SQLException{
     return CompetitorDAO.newCompetitor(nationality, firstName, lastName, timeSet);
     public static Vector searchCompetitors(String event, String round)throws SQLException{
          return CompetitorDAO.searchCompetitors(event, round);
     /**Get Nationality method*/
      public String getNationality() {
          return nationality;
      /**Set Nationality method*/
      public void setNationality(String nationality) {
          this.nationality = nationality;
      /**Get FirstName method*/
      public String getFirstname() {
          return firstName;
      /**Set FirstName method*/
      public void setFirstname(String firstName) {
          this.firstName = firstName;
      /**Get LastName method*/
      public String getLastname() {
          return lastName;
      /**Set LastName method*/
      public void setLastname(String lastName) {
          this.lastName = lastName;
      /**Get timeSet method*/
      public String getTime() {
          return timeSet;
      /**Set timeSet method*/
      public void setTime(String timeSet) {
          this.timeSet = timeSet;
}Now through my main servlet i would like to perform a search on the competitors in my database. The problem is that i want the search to be returned dependant on the choosen event and round (It will return a Vector of CompetitorInfo Objects). So can i add the methods setEvent and setRound into my CompetitorBean, even though they are not part of a CompetitorInfo Object?

Answer 1

Yes, the bean and the CompetitorInfo are basically the same, i was following my tutors examples, but was wondering why he needed both of them, i shall remove one. As far as adding event and round to my CompetitorBean, i have a jsp with two combo boxes. One the user chooses the event and the other the user chooses the round. When they click search, the parameters are passed the the searchCompetitor method in the CompetitorBean. Eventually, after a few other things, the method returns a Vector of competitors in that event and round (will change to ArrayList). I then need do display this list in my jsp in a table. So in my CompetitorMain class, which is my servlet i have
import myWork.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class CompetitorMain extends HttpServlet {
     public void init() throws ServletException{
          super.init();
          myWork.CompetitorInfo.initialize();
          System.out.println("Init - Servlet");
     public void destroy() {
          super.destroy();
          myWork.CompetitorInfo.terminate();
          System.out.println("Destroy - Servlet");
     public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     throws IOException, ServletException{
          doGet(request, response);
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     throws IOException, ServletException{
          String address = null;
          String operation = null;
          if(request.getParameter("Submit")!=null){
               operation="Search";
          CompetitorBean  competitor = new CompetitorBean();
          request.setAttribute("competitor", competitor);
          if (operation.equals("Search")){
               address = "/SearchEdit.jsp";
               String event = ((String)request.getParameter("Events"));
               String round = ((String)request.getParameter("Rounds"));
               List<CompetitorInfo> searchResult = competitor.searchCompetitors(event, round);
          RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(address);
          dispatcher.forward(request, response);
}So i am basically forwarding the List to my JSP. So how would i go about displaying it if its not a bean? Normally i would do somthing like
<jsp:useBean id="competitor" scope="request" type="myWork.CompetitorBean" />
<table border="1">
  <c:forEach var="item" begin="" items="${competitor.CompetitorInfo}">
  <tr>
    <td>${item.nationality}</td>
    <td>${item.firstName}</td>
    <td>${item.lastName}</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>The method which gets the List is still in my Bean, so could i still display it like this?