GetProperty Tag in JSP

The getProperty tag action is used to retrieve the value of a given property and converts it to a string, and finally inserts it into the output.The getProperty tag action has only two attributes, both of which are required ans simple syntax is as follows:

<jsp:useBean id="myName" ... />
...
<jsp:getProperty name="myName" >
Explanation: As shown above, getProperty tag in JSP has two attributes "name" and "property". Please note that jsp:getProperty tag must be used with jsp:useBean tag.

name Attribute: name attribute in JSP getProperty tag must match with useBean Tag. If JSP has multiple useBean tag, id of the useBean tag is used to identify the bean. While getting property of that bean, id in useBean tag must match with name attribute in getProperty Tag.
property Attribute: property attribute in JSP getProperty Tag idnetifies the property whose value is being requested by this tag.

Example- Employee.java

package com.dineshonjava.bean;

/**
 * @author Dinesh Rajput
 *
 */
public class Employee {
 private String firstName;
 private String lastName;
 private String address;
 
 public String getFirstName() {
  return firstName;
 }
 public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
  this.firstName = firstName;
 }
 public String getLastName() {
  return lastName;
 }
 public void setLastName(String lastName) {
  this.lastName = lastName;
 }
 public String getAddress() {
  return address;
 }
 public void setAddress(String address) {
  this.address = address;
 }
 
}

index.jsp

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>

<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

<html>

 <body>

  <h1>Employee Form Bean Value</h1>

    <jsp:useBean id="emp" class="com.dineshonjava.bean.Employee" scope="page" />
    <jsp:setProperty name="emp" >

Copy myapp folder on webapp directory of tomcat at

C:Program Files (x86)Apache Software FoundationTomcat 7.0webapps
and restart server and hit the following URL

http://localhost:8080/myapp/index.jsp

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!