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Is there any sort of page limit for a jsp page?

AFAIK, no.

I think that the most likely cause is that your JSP is throwing an exception. Check the Tomcat logs, and look at the JSP at the point after the last HTML that was output.

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@Adam Crume says: "The exception may be thrown at a point further down from where the output stops, due to buffering."

True. As a temporary hack to get around this, you could surround the JSP's content with a try / finally, and flush the output stream in the finally block.

Stephen C 2010-07-26 05:36:12

The exception may be thrown at a point further down from where the output stops, due to buffering.

Adam Crume 2010-07-26 05:50:03

It was indeed an exception. Thanks a lot!

afgallo 2010-07-26 07:05:02

Answer 2

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Is there any sort of page limit for a jsp page?

Yes, there is. It's about 64KB. JSP's are basically compiled into a large try statement. In Java, there's a 64KB limit for try statement. But if you exceed this, it would have prouced a different exception.

This problem at least indicates that you're using scriptlets in the JSP. This is a bad practice. Whenever an exception occurs halfway a JSP page, you'll get a blank or halfbaked page without information about the problem. Don't execute business stuff in JSP, but in a preprocessing Servlet.

BalusC 2010-07-26 12:23:50

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