I have a JSP page that will display the exact content of another web page on a different server. My understanding was that c:import from the JSTL should be able to include content from files that are not part of the current web application. I added c:import url="page on my server in a different application" and it works fine, but when ...
How do I alternate HTML table row colors using JSP? My CSS looks something like: tr.odd {background-color: #EEDDEE} tr.even {background-color: #EEEEDD} I want to use <c:forEach> to iterate over a collection. <c:forEach items="${element}" var="myCollection"> <tr> <td><c:out value="${element.field}"/></td> ... </tr> </c:f...
Hello, I've experienced rather strange behavior of JSTL forEach tag. I have some bean called SessionBean: public class SessionBean { private Collection<MyObject> objects; public Collection<MyObject> getObjects() {return objects;} ... } And a simple JSP page like that: <%@page contentType="text/html"%> <%@page pageEncoding="UTF...
I'm working with JSTL in Eclipse, using the WTP. I have jstl and standard.jar in my WEB-INF/lib directory, and everything works. Eclipse is giving me this warning in my JSP: The TagExtraInfo class for c:forEach (org.apache.taglibs.standard.tei.ForEachTEI) was not found on the build path. I have JSTL included: <%@ taglib uri="http://...
I am trying to format a date with: <fmt:formatDate value="${newsletter.createdOn}" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy"/> newsletter is an object with a createdOn property which is java.util.Date. When I invoke the previous sentence I get: According to the TLD, the attribute value does not accept expressions. I am importing fmt with <%@ tag...
Writing a JSP page, what exactly does the <c:out> do? I've noticed that the following both has the same result: <p>The person's name is <c:out value="${person.name}" /></p> <p>The person's name is ${person.name}</p> ...
Does anyone know because all the places I've tried seem to timeout! ...
I have the following line in a JSP page: <c:if test="${postAuditBean.postAudit.authority == authority.value}"> I would like change this comparison to first trim leading and trailing spaces from both the left and right hand expressions prior to comparison... as in something like this: <c:if test="${trim(postAuditBean.postAudit.authori...
Is it possible to access JSTL's forEach variable via code from within the loop? <c:forEach items="${elements}" var="element"> <% element.someMethod(); %> </c:forEach> ...
Are there any alternatives to JSTL? One company I worked for 3 years ago used JSTL and custom tag libraries to separate presentation from logic. Front-end developers used EL to do complex presentation logic, generate layouts in JSP pages and it worked out great. Perhaps new technologies have come out. Anything better these days? ...
I'm using Spring, but this question applies to all JSP-controller type designs. The JSP page references data (using tags) which is populated by the corresponding controller. My question is, where is the appropriate place to perform formatting, in JSP or the controller? So far I've been preparing the data by formatting it in my controll...
I'm getting the following error when I try to use the JSTL XML taglib: /server-side-transform.jsp(51,0) According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute xml does not accept any expressions I'm looking into the tlds etc, but if anyone knows what this is an can save me some time, it'd be appreciated! If it helps, I get t...
I have a JSP page that receives an ArrayList of event objects, each event object contains an ArrayList of dates. I am iterating through the event objects with the following: How can I iterate through the dateTimes ArrayList of each event object and print out each events date/times ? ...
I'd like to swap out an sql:query for some Java code that builds a complex query with several parameters. The current sql is a simple select. <sql:query var="result" dataSource="${dSource}" sql="select * from TABLE "> </sql:query> How do I take my Java ResultSet (ie. rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql);) and make the results availa...
What's the proper way to create a hyperlink in Spring+JSP? There must be a better way than just coding in the <a href="..."> tag. Take for example a page that displays people. The URL is people.htm. The corresponding controller gets people from the database and performs optional column sorting. The JSP might look like: <table> <tr> <t...
I am trying to show the current date in my JSP page using JSTL. below is the code I am using. <jsp:useBean id="now" class="java.util.Date" scope="request" /> <fmt:formatDate value="${now}" pattern="MM.dd.yyyy" /> But the above code is not producing any results? Am I missing anything here or is there any better approach for this? I am ...
I have a JSP that is using Spring:form tags to bind controls to a command object. I would like to modify it as follows: if [some condition is true] than display the controls; otherwise, just display the text. (Examples: if the user is an Admin, display the controls, otherwise just display the text. If the whatsit is still open for modi...
I have the next code in a JSTL file: <c:choose> <c:when test="${application.lodging eq 'F'}"><bean:message key="courseapplication.lodgingF"/></c:when> <c:when test="${application.lodging eq 'H'}"><bean:message key="courseapplication.lodgingH"/></c:when> <c:when test="${application.lodging eq 'B'}"><bean:message key="coursea...
I'm looping through a list of items, and I'd like to get a request parameter based on the item's index. I could easily do it with a scriptlet as done below, but I'd like to use expression language. <c:forEach var="item" items="${list}" varStatus="count"> <!-- This would work --> <%=request.getParameter("item_" + count.index)%> ...
Can I access an authenticated web service using JSTL? (Form-based authentication) If I can't do it using JSTL, is there any other way I do it from a JSP? Maybe I need to give a little more information. I'm using the core library: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %> and the import tag, as in: <c:import ...