Re: JSTL Question

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:01:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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Mongoose wrote:

I actually don't receive any error messages. The .jsp page simply
displays the "Description" Table Header and nothing else. Also, I
realize that doing this is a poor practice but I was just trying to
quickly display the output (that obviously didn't work out as
planned..LOL). I would NEVER actually do this in any production
application . . . I realize it is poor practice. Description is
VARCHAR2 Oracle Datatype (typo). Since I don't get any error messages
it's hard for me to determine what is going wrong. My guess is that
I'm not using the correct syntax in <c:out> to refer to the
description property of each object . . . however I'm not
certain . . .


It's a mystery, but when I get simply no output from JSPs, I often
find an error message in the error logs for Tomcat.

I suspect that the compiler cannot tell that your element type is not
'Object', and 'Object' does not have a 'Description' [sic] attribute.

Maybe if you make your collection generic it would help. But look
through the error log first.

--
Lew

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