0 Replies Latest reply on May 20, 2004 9:01 PM by john_anderson_ii

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john_anderson_ii May 20, 2004 9:01 PM

I'm completely new to JSP. However, I'm familiar with servlets and tomcat. I'm following an IBM tutorial from developerworks on jsp. Their first example is really simple:

hello.jsp


<jsp:directive.page languag="java"/>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html><head><title>Hello World</title></head><body>
<center><h1>Hello World!</h1></center>
<cetner>The local server time is: <jsp:expression> new java.util.Date().toString()<jsp:expression>.</center>
</body></html>

I've packaged it to deploy into the app root directory. I have several cmp beans from another tutorial packaged with this application, but I've not yet begun to access them via jsp. Thus my app root is /cmp.

When I deploy the package to JBoss 3.2.3's default server config, and point my web browser to http://localhost:8080/cmp/hello.jsp, I get an exception as follows:

HTTP Status - 500

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /hello.jsp(1,5) jsp.error.badaction
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:94)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:428)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:126)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseAction(Parser.java:671)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:803)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:122)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:199)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:153)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:227)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:369)
 at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:473)
 at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:190)
 at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
 at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
etc, etc, etc.....

The turorial I'm working in doesn't say anything about deployment descriptors, etc. So I have no entries in any deployment .xml for the jsp page. Do I need to declare the .jsp somewhere like I do a servlet? I haven't found any rescources suggesting this yet.

If anyone has any better tutorials/rescources for JBoss/Tomcat jsp, please point me in that direction. I think I'm just getting more lost with the IBM Tutorial.