Form processing javabean

[kinjiro]

I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm currently writing a javabean to cope with form processing, in particular obtaining the information from an HTTP post and retrieving the parameters from the request object.

To that end, I have a javabean that does the following:

<font color="red">package classes;

public class CandRegForm{

String title = "";
String initials = "";
String firstname = "";

public void setTitle( String value )
{
title = value;
}
public void setInitials( String value )
{
initials = value;
}
public void setFirstname( String value )
{
firstname = value;
}

public String getTitle() { return title; }
public String getInitials() { return initials; }
public String getFirstname() { return firstname; }

}
</font id="red">

Now as you can imagine this gets very laborious on a page that needs to get a large number of form elements.

What i'm looking for is a way to change the getTitle etc methods and request it by name

eg

<font color="red">public getField(String TheName)
{
return TheName.value
}</font id="red">

Now this doesn't work, it returns null, i imagine as there is no reference to the request object.

I there a way to do this? It would be good to just have the one metho to handle all form fields.

Cheers
Neil