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Tomcat 3.2.3 on Win2K - Attribute class has no value - Javabean problem

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Ariel Shmorak

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Nov 8, 2001, 4:28:54 PM11/8/01
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I am trying to to run a simple javabean on my jsp page.
I have a web app called "myapp" under the "webapps" dir (I set it up
in server.xml). Under this, I have a "WEB-INF/classes/mybeans" Dir.
This is where my javabean, lineBean.class, resides.
The jsp page (test.jsp) resides in the "myapp" folder and looks like
this:
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<%@ page import="mybeans.*" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<jsp:useBean class"mybeans.lineBean" id="mybean" scope"page" />
<%= mybean.stars(20) %>
</body>
</html>
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lineBean.java looks like:
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package mybeans;

public class lineBean
{

public String stars(int x)
{
String text = "<br>";
for (int i = 0; i < x; i++)
text = text + "*";
return text + "<br>";
}

}
--------------------------

How does Tomcat know where I am storing my class files? Is the WEB-INF
correct?

My error I am getting is:
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Location: /myapp/test.jsp
Internal Servlet Error:

org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParseException:
C:\Apps\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3\webapps\myapp\test.jsp(8,18) Attribute
class has no value
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseAttributeValue(JspReader.java:519)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseTagAttributesBean(JspReader.java:570)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser$Bean.accept(Parser.java:614)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1077)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1042)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1038)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:209)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.doLoadJSP(JspServlet.java:612)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader12.loadJSP(JasperLoader12.java:146)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:542)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspServlet.java:258)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:268)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:429)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:500)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:405)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:812)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:758)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java:213)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

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Any help would be much appreciated.

Ariel

Werner Artinger

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Nov 8, 2001, 10:40:09 PM11/8/01
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I wish they were all this easy...

You forgot the "=" between class and mybeans.lineBean in your JSP page. You
also forgot one between scope and page. The line should read:

<jsp:useBean class="mybeans.lineBean" id="mybean" scope="page" />

I tried it on my system and everything works fine once those errors are
corrected. Hope this helps!!

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Ariel Shmorak

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Nov 9, 2001, 9:10:03 AM11/9/01
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Werner,

Thank you. I am off to go get my eyes fixed!

Ariel

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