I'm supporting an older JSP system that may be using non-standard way of including classes and functions. Instead of writing classes files and compiling them into jar files, the classes are written directly in "child" JSPs and then included in a "parent" JSP.
The problem I'm having is that in JDeveloper, even though the IDE recognize the files in the include statement, I get error messages that MyClass and ChildFunction() are not defined. When I drop the 2 JSPs on the server, the page loads and runs with the expected results. As a result, when I work on the real code, I have a 1000+ line JSP with over a hundred syntax errors, so I can't tell if my code is even syntactically correct until I drop it on a server. I'm hoping its something simple (/stupid) like a classloader error or a bad configuration, but I haven't been able to fix it. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I've included two stub files below:
MyClass.jsp FILE:
<%@ page import="java.lang.*,java.net.*,java.text.*,javax.servlet.http.*" %>
<%!
class MyClass() {
public MyClass() { super(); }
private int it=0;
public void setIt (int it) {this.it = it; }
public int getIt () { return it; }
}
public String ChildFunction(){
return " ChildFunction ";
}
%>
Parent.jsp FILE:
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=WINDOWS-1252"%>
<%@ page language="java" session="true" import="java.lang.*,java.net.*,java.text.*,javax.servlet.http.*" %>
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Test page</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<%@ include file="./MyClass.jsp" %>
<br>Result of calling Child Function:<% out.print(ChildFunction()); %>
<br>Result of declaring MyClass:
<%
MyClass mc = new MyClass();
out.print(mc.getIt());
%>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Before someone suggest that I put the code in class files and use EAR/WAR files to deploy, that's not an option. This is an existing legacy system that I need to be able to support.
