Hi, Quick overview, I'm setting some variables in the session from my servlet to be used in my JSP/JSTL page. Everything is fine if a JSP page is called before the servlet, but a call to the servlet first results in JspFactory.getPageContext to return null.
To reproduce, I restart the Tomcat server, clear the session cookies from the client, and go to the servlet URL directly. I found this bug report which is the problem exactly: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3752 If i go to a jsp page after starting the server, any JSP page, then go to the servlet url directly everything works as expected. Like the bug poster, if this is a no-no I'm curious why the factory and the call to create the context throw no exceptions. I'm more curious though as to what the correct way is for passing information from servlet to jsp. Mike A stripped down version of the code in question: RequestDispatcher dispat = null; JspFactory factory = JspFactory.getDefaultFactory(); PageContext pageContext = this.factory.getPageContext( this, request, response, null, false, JspWriter.DEFAULT_BUFFER, true); // expected URL is something like /AppName/SevrletName/45 // path_info is '/45' String id = request.getPathInfo().substring(1); // *snipping* sql-setup to look up 'id' ResultSet rs = sql.executeQuery(); if(rs != null) { rs.next(); String title = rs.getString("title"); String preamble = rs.getString("preamble"); pc.setAttribute("title", title, PageContext.REQUEST_SCOPE); pc.setAttribute("preamble", preamble, PageContext.REQUEST_SCOPE); dispat = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher('page1.jsp'); } else { pc.setAttribute("errorMessage", "ID was not found", PageContext.REQUEST_SCOPE); dispat = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher('error.jsp'); } factory.releasePageContext(ps); dispat.forward(request, response); --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
