Hi all I've read that bug report about comments in JSP files and don't really understand - can someone clarify the issue for me ? thanks
I'm wondering what's wrong with "//", and what I might be doing wrong as I myself use such comments within JSP files... (those comments use to work well...it's even better than using HTML comments in a JSP file as they won't appear in the generated HTML) Actually, I don't understand the argument "You should not be using "//" comments" --"//" are part of the java language spec -- the JSP API is made for implementing server-side pages using the java language Therefore, JSP pages should accept everything that it's in the Java specs, including "//". If such comments are misplaced and the compilation fails, Tomcat is not supposed to do anything.. So what's the real issue then ? > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-10-22 10:11 ------- > You should not be using "//" comments. You have absolutely no control over the > Java code that is generated for your page, so it is your responsibility to use > well-formed constructs. In this particular case, that means to use /* */ style > comment markers so that you can explicitly close them. Even if we changed > Tomcat to do what you suggest, depending on this would not be portable and you'd > have massive problems as soon as you tried to switch to some other container > that didn't do it. > > Using scriptlets at all can lead you into lots of other problems (such as > intermixing business logic and presentation logic that makes it very hard to > maintain and enhance your applications), but that is a whole separate > discussion.
