I maybe had gotten sloppy with my coding- I thought that a call to
pageContext without specifying the scope would search all contexts. Yes,
other app servers are more forgiving, and perhaps not strictly compliant.
Thanks for your help!
Best regards,
Richard
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: Tomcat not putting session objects into JSP page context?
(repost...)
>
> I think the problem is, you're using:
>
> Object obj = pageContext.getAttribute("loginBean");
>
> The JSP spec defines this as returning an object that occurs at *page*
> scope. Try instead:
>
> Object obj = pageContext.getAttribute("loginBean",
> pageContext.SESSION_SCOPE );
>
> This should work. As to why the current stuff gives you the result you
> want in JRun or iPlanet, can't say --
> I have heard that JRun is more "forgiving" -- ie, provides extra
behaviours
> beyond the spec -- and
> maybe this is a case of that.
>
> - Fernando
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi all- I'm sorry for the repost but this is still stumping me. I'm using
> Tomcat 3.2.2 natively (over port 8080).
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Sand
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 3:19 PM
> Subject: Tomcat not putting session objects into JSP page context?
>
> Hi all- I've got a JSP/Javabean application that works fine under JRun
and
> iPlanet Web Server. However, when I use Tomcat, it does not seem to be
> instantiating new session variables if they don't already exist. In the
> top of my JSP page, I have:
>
> <jsp:useBean id="loginBean" class="LoginBean" scope="session"/>
>
> And further down in the page I do (actually inside a TagLib, but I tried
> it in the page as well as a test):
>
> Object obj = pageContext.getAttribute("loginBean");
>
> But obj comes back as null. If I try:
>
> LoginBean tlb = (LoginBean) session.getAttribute("loginBean");
>
> then I get the bean! Why is my call to pageContext failing to get
> loginBean, especially considering that this works on other Java
> application servers?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
