The application, session and request objects are available from within s
tags in jsp wherever ognl can be evaluated. Use the #application, #session, or #request syntax to get the object and access values by their keys using ['key'].
<s:property value="#application['foo']"/> <s:property value="#session['baz']"/> |
Conversely, if you would like to make Struts 2 objects available to a JSP/JSTL scope, the s:set
tag may be used like this:
<s:set name="jobz" value="jobs" scope="request" /> <c:forEach items="${jobz} var="job"> ... </c:forEach> |
In Struts 2 OGNL values are automagically exposed to JSP/JSTL; using |
A full example below shows a struts variable "jobs" being exposed as "jobz" and being used with jstl and the display tag.
Exposing framework objects to JSTL, with a JSTL and DisplayTag Example