Struts tag question

Question

I am writing a web app that uses Struts and the associated tag libs in the JSP. I am trying to create a form with three text fields, each of which will be initialized to a value from a bean referenced in the top of the JSP. When I try the following, I get an exception saying the value must be followed by a ". How can I do this?
<html:form action="screens/UpdateName.do">
<table>
<tr><td> First: </td>
<td> <html:text property="firstName" size="22" maxlength="22" value=<%= Customer.getFirstName();%>/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td> Middle: </td>
<td> <html:text property="middleName" size="22" maxlength="22"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td> Last: </td>
<td> <html:text property="lastName" size="22" maxlength="22"/>
</td>
</tr>
     <tr><td colspan="2">
<html:submit property="submit" value="Enter"/>
</input>
</td>
     </tr>
</table>
</html:form>
Customer is the name of the bean with the name data in it.

Answer 1

You don't need the value attribute for this tag. The property attribute will ensure that the text field gets the value from the Customer bean firstName property.
You would use the value attribute if you weren't specifiying a property.
Dave