<jsp:setProperty working only with the value parameter

[swatik_2000]

I am a tester by profession and completely new to web application development. However, there is a small project I am trying to develop for which I need to take user values in text fields on a form and save them to the database. I am using netbeans 6.0.1, the tomcat server that comes with that installation and Mysql for the database.

I have an index.jsp page, with a text field in it.

<INPUT type = "text" name=locNm value = "<%= locNameTextValue %>" size = 20 maxlength = 20>

and the form attributes:

<form action="insertLocationData.jsp" method=POST enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="submit" value="Create Location" name="CreateLocation" />
<input type="reset" value="Cancel" name="Cancel" />
</form>


My insertLocationData.jsp has useBean and setProperty to pass this field value to the database.

<jsp:useBean id="locationInsert" scope="request" class="loc.locationManager">
<jsp:setProperty name="locationInsert" property="locNm" />
</jsp:useBean>

My java class, has a constructor where locNm is set to "". I have corresponding getter and setter methods defined as getLocNm() and setLocNm(location_name).

However, setProperty does not execute the setter method from the bean. I tried debugging it, but, the setproperty line is simply skipped everytime, unless, I explicitly use the value parameter
<jsp:setProperty name="locationInsert" property="locNm" value ="a"/>
For all other usages of setProperty including,
<jsp:setProperty name="locationInsert" property="locNm" param = "locNm"> and
<jsp:setProperty name="locationInsert" property="*" />, the line is skipped and the value of my bean parameter is not set.


Can someone kindly help and let me know where is it that I am going wrong.

Thanks
Swati