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jonnie
jonnie

Reputation: 12690

JspException and PageContext cannot be resolved

This is a follow up to a question on accessing resources in jsp page of spring mvc app Thanks to @kmb385 I was able to resolve that problem but now I get the following eclipse errors in my JSP file javax.servlet.jsp.JspException cannot be resolved to a type and

javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext cannot be resolved to a type

as suggest by kmb385, here is my controller:

@Controller
public class AdminController {

        @RequestMapping("/")
        protected ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {

            ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView("index");
            model.addObject("msg", "hello world");

            return model;
        }   
    }

and here is my index.jsp page just in case:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<!-- <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css"/> -->
<style type="text/css">
    <%@include file="css/style.css" %>
    </style>
<title>My Project - MainPage</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2 class="main_heading2">My Project - MainPage</h2>
<div style="float: right; width: 30%; text-align: center">
<p style="float:left;">an image should be here</p>
<img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="Logo"/>
<img src="${pageContext.servletContext.contextPath}/resources/images/logo.jpg" />
</div>

</body>

I have come across "solutions" to this by disabling it in the JSP validator but Please do not suggest this unless you can give a legitimate reason. I would rather correct this issue properly

Any Help appreciated

UPDATE: Build path screen grab as requested by @kmb385 Eclipse Build Path

Upvotes: 13

Views: 60465

Answers (7)

Kevin Bowersox
Kevin Bowersox

Reputation: 94469

Try setting the servlet-api dependency in your pom.xml to provided. This jar maybe conflicting with the tomcat provided servlet-api.jar.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.5</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

Also be sure to include the jsp-api dependency, once again set as provided:

    <!-- Servlet -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.3</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

Make sure all of your maven dependencies are being used to build the project by right clicking your project > Properties. On the deployment assembly tab click the add button, then Java Build Path Entries, then Maven Dependencies and finally Finish.

You may also need to add your maven dependencies to the build path. Right click your project > Maven > Update Project Configuration.

Upvotes: 36

Wes
Wes

Reputation: 1945

This alternative worked for me <%=request.getContextPath()%> which gets the Application context.

Upvotes: 0

Shashikant Sharma
Shashikant Sharma

Reputation: 556

This will solve the problem 

<!-- Need this to compile JSP -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

Upvotes: 0

Sachindra N. Pandey
Sachindra N. Pandey

Reputation: 1252

How to solve javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext cannot be resolved to a type

1:- Select your project and Right click

2:- Go to Properties

3:- Click Targated Runtimes

4:- Check mark "Apache Tomcat v8.0"

I am using Apache v8.0 in my case

Upvotes: 0

bpjoshi
bpjoshi

Reputation: 1141

If you have downloaded all the dependencies in maven and the error is still not getting away, follow the steps below:

  1. Right click on project and go to properties
  2. Click over target run time
  3. Check the box in front of the server you are using.

This should work.

Upvotes: 6

mfruizs
mfruizs

Reputation: 770

Add to the pom.xml dependencies:

     <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.5</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
        <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.1</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

JSP:

Make sure to add on jsp, before tag:

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

Get the context on JSP:

<c:set var="contextPath" value="${pageContext.request.contextPath}"/>

Import style css:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="${contextPath}/css/yourCssFile.css"/>

Dispatcher-servlet:

On your "spring-dispatcher-servlet.xml" add the following lines:

<beans xmlns="... xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="...
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">

<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/css/" />

Maybe, you need to add this adapters:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter"/> [Optional]
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping">
    <property name="order" value="0"/>
</bean>

explained here: how to include js and css in jsp with spring MVC

Upvotes: 1

mwangi
mwangi

Reputation: 1626

Try import the class.

Modify your jsp's first line to look like this;

<%@ page language="java" import="javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

Upvotes: 3

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