On Thu, 3 May 2001, Ana wrote:
> Hi,
> We think we have discovered an error in Tomcat 4.0.nightly build
> (20010503). We call the forward method of the RequestDispatcher from a
> servlet. Then, we call the setAttribute method of the request object of the
> included JSP. At this point a java.lang.StackOverflowError occurs.
> Example:
> MyServlet.java:
> ...
> public void service(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response){
> ...
>
>getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("MyJSP.jsp").forward(request,
>
> response);
NOTE: The path here should really be "/MyJSP.jsp". Otherwise, you should
have gotten an IllegalArgumentException instead.
> ..
> }
> MyJSP.jsp:
> ...
> request.setAttribute("MyAttribute", obj); <-- At this point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> ...
>
> Thank you.
>
I have been unable to reproduce this problem, for either forwards or
includes, to either servlets or JSP pages. Could you try to create a
small test case that demonstrates it, and post that as a bug report to:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/
under product category "Tomcat 4"?
Craig McClanahan
