I've got a .jsp file that is working fine. It's maybe a bit special in that it is calling a factory (ArticlesFactory) that returns a singleton (but that is a detail) of class Articles (it does so by automatically fetching shared Google Docs that are transformed to html and then stored into ".../text/en" but that is a detail too).
The following is working fine: it does exactly what I need, it fetches the articles automatically and I can access my Articles instance fine.
<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html;charset=utf-8" %>
<%@ page import="com.domain.projectname.*"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head></head>
<body>
<% Articles articles = ArticlesFactory.create( getServletContext().getRealPath( "text/en" )); %>
We have <%= articles.getNbItems()%>
</body>
</html>
However, I must transform it to some notation I don't know nor understand, I'm not even sure what the name for that is and obviously I've got some issue.
I don't know if it's a namespace issue or if there's a problem with the ArticlesFactory factory's static factory method creating the Articles singleton:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="2.0" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:c="urn:jsptld:http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core">
<jsp:directive.page import="com.domain.project.ArticlesFactory"/>
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
We have ${variable.nbItems} <!-- What to put here !? -->
</jsp:root>
I tried many things and couldn't figure it out.
Basically I need to: - call the static create method from the ArticlesFactory class - by passing it the result of getServletContext().getRealPath( "text/en" ))
(which should give back an Articles instance)
- then I want to put the result of getNbItems() in a variable that I want to display
Note that I don't want to have to call getServletContext from any servlet/dispatcher: I want to do it just like in the first working example (ie directly from inside the .jsp).