JSTL and beans inherited from ArrayList

[pluck]

I would like access properties as well as elements of a bean inherited
from ArrayList.
Can JSTL do that? Apparently, JSTL is interpreting the property name as
an index into the arraylist.

class JeffreyBean extends ArrayList {
public String getName() {
return "Jeffrey";
}
}

<jsp:useBean scope="session" id="bean" class="JeffreyBean"/>

<cut value="${bean.name}"/>

 

[Chris Riesbeck]

I would like access properties as well as elements of a bean inherited
from ArrayList.
Can JSTL do that? Apparently, JSTL is interpreting the property name as
an index into the arraylist.

class JeffreyBean extends ArrayList {
public String getName() {
return "Jeffrey";
}
}

<jsp:useBean scope="session" id="bean" class="JeffreyBean"/>

<cut value="${bean.name}"/>

As I read the rules for . and [] in Appendix A.3.4 of the JSTL
specification, it looks like you can't do this. As soon as JSTL sees
that bean is a List, it uses rules for indices, not properties.