html form input field show "null" string

I'm using JSP

I'm using EL expression, and if one of my property is null, it is display "null" in my html form's input field

example

bean = user

<input type="text" name="lastName" value="${user.lastName}" >

it will show "null" in the text field

is there a nice clean way to have it display an empty string if the property return null (like it does in strut).

ps. i can't use strut for this project.

[457 byte] By [tnguyen1973a] at [2007-11-27 8:35:31]