Step-by-step tutorial - wrong output

**jconsult** · Sep 3rd, 2004, 02:40 AM

Hello
I'm exploring the framework by going through the step-by-step tutorial.

I have completed step 14 (Improve the view and the controller), but it doesn't work as it should.

I'm positive that i have the right source (used cut'n'paste), but when i try to run the application i get the output

Greetings, it is now ${now} instead of the time and date which it should display.

I don't want to continue the tutorial before i've found the sollution for this.
Can someone give me a hint what may be wrong?

Regards
Per

**Anonymous** · Sep 3rd, 2004, 06:09 AM

I got this working yesterday with Tomcat. Have you copied the whole of the updated springapp-servlet.xml? What URL are you using - have you tried not specifying hello.htm (since index.jsp will get run by default)? Does SpringappController put the time in "now" properly? It works for me anyway (Tomcat 5, J2SDK 1.4.2, Spring 1.1 rc2)

**jconsult** · Sep 3rd, 2004, 06:42 AM

The index.jsp is redirecting to hello.thm

The servlet places the time in now

this is my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd'>

<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>springapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherSe rvlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>springapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/hello.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>
index.jsp
</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/META-INF/fmt.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/META-INF/c.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
</web-app>

This is my springapp-servlet.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">



<beans>
<bean id="springappController" class="SpringappController"/>

<bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.Sim pleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/hello.htm">springappController</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>

This is my hello.jsp:
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c"%><%@ include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp" %>

<html>
<head><title>Hello :: Spring Application</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Hello - Spring Application</h1>
<p>Greetings, it is now <c:out value="${now}" />
</p>
</body>
</html>

This is my include.jsp:
<%@ page session="false"%>

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" %>

when accessing http://localhost:8080/springapp the browser is redirected to hello.htm which display this output:
Hello - Spring Application
Greetings, it is now ${now}

**Anonymous** · Sep 3rd, 2004, 07:07 AM

Seems ok to me (fellow Spring newbie tho) - have you tried looking in your logs to see if the SpringappController logs ok? Unloaded/cleaned/recompiled/installed your webapp?

**jconsult** · Sep 6th, 2004, 02:49 AM

The logs seems ok and yes, i have reloaded and reinstalled the application many times

--
Per

**davison** · Sep 6th, 2004, 03:52 AM

can you post your controller code?

**jconsult** · Sep 6th, 2004, 08:16 AM

The controller code is the same as in the tutorial.

I fount the sollution:
If using Tomcat 5, you have to put this line in the jsp:

<%@ page isELIgnored="false"%>

This did the trick, and i'm now getting the output i want

**joegaber** · Sep 12th, 2004, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by jconsult

The controller code is the same as in the tutorial.

I fount the sollution:
If using Tomcat 5, you have to put this line in the jsp:

<%@ page isELIgnored="false"%>

This did the trick, and i'm now getting the output i want

This is interesting. I am using Tomcat 5 and just completed the tutorial. I do not have this line in any of my jsp pages. Why do you think this helped you, but I didn't need it?

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