Doh! - the missing quote was definitely the problem. I just assumed that all the syntax was right since ServletExec never complained. Another thing that ServletExec never complained about was not being able to find the class String. Even if I import java.lang.String, this page doesn't parse unless i write each useBean line as:
<jsp:useBean id="servletPath" scope="request" class="java.lang.String"/> as opposed to simply: <jsp:useBean id="servletPath" scope="request" class="String"/> oh, well, I'm on my way now. Thanks a lot! -john "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, John J Brecht wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:49:50 -0700 > > From: John J Brecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Tomcat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: attibute has no value > > > > I'm having a very simple problem. I am attempting to migrate some > > applications that ran fine under ServletExec to Tomcat 4.0. Jasper > > fails to parse my JSPs, throwing the folling error: > > > > 2001-10-02 10:46:44 ApplicationDispatcher[/DLServlet] Servlet.service() > > for servlet jsp threw exception > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParseException: /DLjsp/login.jsp(3,33) > > Attribute servletPath has no value > > This message is thrown only when the first non-whitespace character after > an attribute name is not an equal sign. Double and triple check the > quote characters in your source page. > > > at > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseAttributeValue(JspReader.java:563) > > at > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseTagAttributes(JspReader.java:681) > > . > > . > > . > > > > > > here is the beginning of my JSP, the code that it is complaining about: > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/HTML32.dtd";> > > <%@ page import="com.sri.ctl.dl.* %> > ^^^ > > Note that there is a missing quote after the "*" character. > > > <jsp:useBean id="servletPath" scope="request" class="String"/> > > > > > > In my servlet code, I included print statements that give the request's > > attributes and their values right before I forward to the JSP, and it > > shows that the attribute "ServletPath" exists, and has a value, as it > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > Shouldn't that be "servletPath" (lower case "s")? > > > should. I get this error in general for any bean i try to use in this > > way. > > > > Anyone know what might be going on? > > > > -john > > > > Craig
