you must be using Servlet 2.1 container. session.setAttribute() and
getAttribute() is part of Servlet 2.2 API.
Sree Pillai
>From: Rupali Bains Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: problems using session
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:03:15 PDT
>
>Jsp Gurus,
>
>I trying to do user authentication by using a java class called
>Administrator in my jsp. I need to attach this object to the session so i
>can check on each page if this is not null and so the page can be viewed
>else send them to the login page.
>The code is
>
><%@ page language="java" import="myBeans.*" %>
>
><jsp:useBean id="auth" scope="page" class="myBeans.ValidateAdmin" />
><jsp:setProperty name="auth" property="*"/>
>
><%! String display;
>%>
>
><%
> display = "launch.jsp";
> try
> {
> Administrator admin = auth.authenticate();
> // check if the user is allowed to view the next page
> if (admin != null)
> {
> out.println("The admin is not null");
> session.setAttribute ("administrator",admin);
> }
>%>
><jsp:include page="nextpage.jsp" />
><%
> }
> catch (Exception e){}
>%>
>
>It works fine till i add the line
>session.setAttribute() to add the object in the session. When i do that i
>get the following error
>
>Fri Jul 14 13:50:45 EDT 2000:<E> <ServletContext-General> Compilation of
>D:\webl
>ogic\myserver\classfiles\jsp_servlet\_htdocs\_login3\_logonadministrator.java
>fa
>iled:
>D:\weblogic\myserver\classfiles\jsp_servlet\_htdocs\_login3\_logonadminist
>rator.java:122: cannot resolve symbol
>symbol : method setAttribute (java.lang.String,myBeans.Administrator)
>
>location: interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession
> session.setAttribute ("administrator",admin); //[
>/htdocs/lo
>gin3/logonAdministrator.jsp; Line: 22]
> ^
>---------------------------------------
>Thanks for the help!
>
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