Thanks for the pointer. I have not investigated JSTL, and I will look into it further.
Can anyone give me a link that explains the reasons behind this behaviour? Now that I'm aware that it can't be turned off, I'm very curious as to why it was coded this way. Thanks, --Michael -----Original Message----- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:55 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Null printed in jsp getProperty fields There is no setting to turn this off. [But if you use JSTL - null get supressed for you.] -Tim Michael Molloy wrote: > Hello everyone. I can't imagine that this isn't a question that has > been asked a great many times, but I can't find the answer anywhere. > > We're using multiple tomcat 4.1.30 servers in a production environment > for a commercial website, and we would like to move up to the latest > stable version. However, when testing our application in tomcat 5.0+, > we have noticed that jsp pages that use the <jsp:getProperty /> method > to display session data print the word "null" in every field that has > a null value. > > Although I haven't read about this, I'm guessing it is part of the > Sun's application server standard. I've been told that WebLogic does > the same thing, but that there is a configuration setting to repress > displaying the word null. > > Is there such a setting for tomcat? If not, what is the best way to > keep from printing "null" in every field that has a null value? I know > we could do it through javascript, but it just seems like a change > this big, after years of not having this behaviour, there must be some > way to prevent it from happening at the application server level. > > Can someone point me in the right direction? I've googled for the > answer, but any search with "null" and "tomcat" in it returns a lot of > pages about unrelated problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
