Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Looking at this from a tool builders perspective.

Let's say we're authoring a JPS 2.0 or 2.1 page. The page is used as a pure view, and Java code has provided all the required beans.

We'd like to use a <jsp:useBean id="foo" scope="request" type="org.foo.Bar"/> declaration, so that the editor can infer type, and provide completion, error checking, analysis, etc.

Just to be clear, we're not talking about bean creation/instantiation here.

Here come the questions:
1) What if an atttribute previously set is actually an array type:
<jsp:useBean id="foo" scope="request" type="org.foo.Bar[]"/>

Is this indeed permitted?

2) What if the attribute we're using/rendering is a java.util.Map, and we'd like to specify what kind of map:

<jsp:useBean id="myMap" scope="request" type="java.util.Map<String,Integer>"/>

Again, the spec is silent.

Any comments from the spec team (Ed)?

Thanks