Please read my sad story and convince me that JSP is a real development
environment and not merely a worthless hack that looks good in press
releases and white papers.
When I played with JSP on JWS beta 3, when some of my JSP pages were
rendered, it put in extra line feeds in random locations which screwed up
the HTML. This problem was fixed by including this on each of my pages:
<%@ page buffer="256kb" %>
As we all know, Sun has decided to leave us JWS users high-n-dry by
discontinuing this webserver.
Sooooo.. we've already converted all of our JWS servers to Apache/Jserv.
When I had looked, I was not able to locate any JSP 1.0 add-ons for Apache.
Since then, one our our server dudes tells me that he found and installed
JSP 1.0 suport (I don't know what the package is called or where he got it
from I think it maybe something GNU).
Now, some of my JSP pages that did work on JWS 2.0 are exhibiting bizarre
behavior.
Here's a sample from my JSP page (Note, it uses a database bean to display
queried info):
<b>Date Menu:</b>
<select name="date">
<%while(db.next()) { %>
<option value="<%= db.get("cDate") %>"><%= db.get("cDate") %>
<%} // end of while loop %>
</select>
<b>Report Menu:</b>
<select name="reporttype">
<%if(req.getreporttype().equals("All")){%>
<option value="All" selected>All Reports
<%} else { %>
<option value="All">All Reports
<%}%>
...more options deleted
</select>
Notice that there are 2 different html <select> object. Well when the page
is rendered, here is the output:
<select name="date">
<option value="1999-09-22">1999-09-22
<option value="1999-09-23">1999-09-23
<option value="1999-09-24">1999-09-24
<option value="1999-09-25">1999-09-25
<option value="1999-09-26">1999-09-26
<option value="1999-09-27">1999-09-27
<option value="1999-09-28">1999-09-28
<option value="All" selected>All Reports
</select>
These two <select>'s were combined into one! Basically what I'm wondering
is: What Gives?
Has JSP matured past the Toy stage? Is it ready for Prime time? Does anyone
our there have any idea what is causing this problem and how I can work
around this?
We're considering using JSP to develop a number of different applications,
but want to get a version that is stable and actually works properly. Any
help would be appreciated.
Steve Gower
319.266.1009
http://www.bottomdollar.com
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