property="firstPage"

                   value="Current Page Name" />

Collectively, the pages using the counter have been accessed 

times.

Listing 13.8 shows the first of three pages that use this approach. The

source code archive at 

http://www.coreservlets.com/

 contains the other

two nearly identical pages. Figure 13 3 shows a typical result.

Listing 13.7 AccessCountBean.java 

package coreservlets;

/** Simple bean to illustrate sharing beans through

 *  use of the scope attribute of jsp:useBean.

 */

public class AccessCountBean {

  private String firstPage;

  private int accessCount = 1;

  public String getFirstPage() {

    return(firstPage);

  }

  public void setFirstPage(String firstPage) {

    this.firstPage = firstPage;

  }

  public int getAccessCount() {

    return(accessCount++);

  }

}

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