We need more code to get the Person’s name
Sending the result of getAttribute() to print/write statement doesn’t give us what we want—it just runs the object’s toString() method. And since class Person doesn’t override its inherited Object.toString(), well, you know what happens. But we want to print the Person’s name.
JSP code
OR using an expression
<html><body>
Person is:
<%= ((foo.Person) request.getAttribute("person")).getName() %>
</body></html>What we GOT:
But then we remember that MEMO...
The one that can be summarized as “Use Scripting and Die”
We need a different approach.
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