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I'm trying to take the output of the getProperty call and assign it to a variable within my page, as shown below. (I want to programatically check it's value.) This construction fails. How do I correctly do this?

Many, many thanks

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<jsp:useBean
id="validUser"
scope="session"
class="com.ora.jsp.beans.emp.EmployeeBean"/>

<% String who = "<jsp:getProperty name="validUser" property="userName"/>" %>

</jsp:useBean>

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[Since EBCDIC]

Damn that deja.com/google USENET search engine is *good*!

The answer (to my own question is):

<% String who = validUser.getUserName() ; %>

I'm learning more and more about how JSPs are wrapped around Java every day. Yeah!