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bean

Please make sure you have read the Tag Syntax document and understand how tag attribute syntax works.

Description

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Parameters

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			<td colspan="6"><h4>Dynamic Attributes Allowed:</h4> false</td>

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			<td colspan="6">&nbsp;</td>

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			<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Name</h4></th>

			<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Required</h4></th>

			<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Default</h4></th>

			<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Evaluated</h4></th>

			<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Type</h4></th>

			<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Description</h4></th>

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				<td align="left" valign="top">name</td>

				<td align="left" valign="top"><strong>true</strong></td>

				<td align="left" valign="top"></td>

				<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>

				<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>

				<td align="left" valign="top">The class name of the bean to be instantiated (must respect JavaBean specification)</td>

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				<td align="left" valign="top">var</td>

				<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>

				<td align="left" valign="top"></td>

				<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>

				<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>

				<td align="left" valign="top">Name used to reference the value pushed into the Value Stack</td>

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Examples

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 <-- in freemarker form -->
 [@s.bean name="org.apache.struts2.example.counter.SimpleCounter" var="counter"]
   [s:param name="foo" value="BAR"/]
   The value of foo is : [s:property value="foo"/], when inside the bean tag.
 [/s:bean]

 <-- in jsp form -->
 <s:bean name="org.apache.struts2.example.counter.SimpleCounter" var="counter">
   <s:param name="foo" value="BAR" />
   The value of foot is : <s:property value="foo"/>, when inside the bean tag <br />
 </s:bean>

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