Servlets 'n' Beans, (table 2)

Question

Hi all,
Got a problem!
Am working on a servlet that uses a bean to store some important variables. I would then like have the servlet call a JSP page that has access to the bean and its vraibles, thus
delivering content specific to the values of the bean.
Been looking at examples of application scope beans, but they all tend to point setting a name and value using the methods as follows:
          Type1 value1 = (computeValueFromRequest("request");
                    getServletContext().setAttribute("key1", "value1");This to me seems like you are creating a bean on the fly and looks like it will complicate the servlet with many statements in order to set all the contents of your bean.
This doesn't appeal to me as I have already created my bean class with all its accessor methods in order to get away from this.
Hoping for some help,
Thanks, thee olde wizard

Answer 1

You are not limited to string values for the attributes. And you certainly don't want to keep attributes that change fast in the servlet context; what about using the session's attributes?
SomeObject sob = new SomeObject();
sob.setXyz(9);
... // bla bla bla
request.getSession().setAttribute("someObject", sob);
// forward to JSP now