Bean Taglib Guide
The Bean Taglib
Note: - Some of the features in this taglib are also available in the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL). The Apache Struts group encourages the use of the standard tags over the Struts specific tags when possible.
The "struts-bean" tag library contains JSP custom tags useful in defining new beans (in any desired scope) from a variety of possible sources, as well as a tag to render a particular bean (or bean property) to the output response.
This tag library contains tags useful in accessing beans and their properties, as well as defining new beans (based on these accesses) that are accessible to the remainder of the page via scripting variables and page scope attributes. Convenient mechanisms to create new beans based on the value of request cookies, headers, and parameters are also provided.