jstl/jsp - iterating over a vector of beans.

I have a vector of beans that holds information I want to display in my jsp page. I'm currently just using standard java expressions to display this, I want to look into using jstl to separate concerns. Is this possible, and how? I've been googling but I can't seem to find anything.

From stackoverflow

• I think that what you are looking for is the < c:foreach > tag.

  for example, printing the value myInt property on instances of MyClass (defined below):

  <c:foreach items="${vectors name}" var="pos" >
         <!-- print the value of myInt for each position of the array. 
              Method getMyInt() must exist in pos object.-->
         <c:out value="${pos.myInt}"/>
  
         <!-- print the value of myInt for each composed instance.
              Method getRelatedInstance() must exist in pos object.  -->
         <c:out value="${pos.relatedInstance.myInt}"/>
  </c:foreach>
  

  where vector name is the name of the vector ,for example, after doing a

  Suppose you have a class myClass.

  public class MyClass{
     private MyClass relatedInstance;     
     //some members and methods
  
     public int getMyInt(){
       //return something
     }
  
     public MyClass getRelatedInstance(){
       return this.relatedInstance;
  }
  
  List<myClass> my_vector = getFilledList();
  request.setAttribute("vectors name",my_vector)
  

  : This seems to be fine for primitives like strings, but I am having trouble working with collections of beans which hold various objects.

  : That's excellent thanks, I was getting a little confused with el requiring classes, and my jstl libs were playing up (umpteen different tabs telling me all different ways of deploying them). Many thanks!

• To expend on Tom's example, here's something more concrete:

  <c:foreach items="${myList}" var="myItem">
    <c:out value="${myItem.someProperty}"/>
  </c:foreach>
  

  Where "myList" is a request attribute which contains your vector.

  A common error is to forget the ${} around ${myList} - if you do this, JSTL won't throw an error, it'll just generate a list for you with a single item, the string "myList".

  Tom : Thanks, i´ve edited some mistakes in my answer.