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Joy
Joy

Reputation: 4483

How to use a Java class in JSP scriptlet? Error says the class cannot be resolved to a type

I have written a sample JSP file in Eclipse and a Java file and was trying to call the Java class inside my JSP but it is not working. The code of the JAVA file is as follows:

TestJava.jva

public class TestJava {
     public void test(String msg)
      {
          System.out.println("My name is "+msg);
      }
}

The Javafile is located at src folder. My JSP file test.jsp is as follows:

test.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

 <html>
 <head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
     <title>My First JSP with JAVA</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <jsp:useBean id="link" scope="application" class = "TestJava" />   
  <% TestJava t=new TestJava();
  t.test("Joy");
 %>
 </body>
 </html>

It is giving error as "TestJava cannot be resolved to a type". I have studied other related posts in Stack Overflow but those approaches also did not work. Being new to JSP I cannot understand how to fix that error. So I am asking if anyone can help me to fix that problem.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 70299

Answers (6)

JoGotta
JoGotta

Reputation: 225

Which IDE are you using? I recommend you use something like Eclipse with the JSP plugin. It will underline with a red objects that you attempt to declare that have not been compiled and imported.

You don't have to use beans by the way.. you can just create java objects and import them

Upvotes: 0

KyelJmD
KyelJmD

Reputation: 4732

You need to import your class using <%@ page %>

In your case, import Test in your jsp page like this.

<%@ page import="yourpackagename.Test" %>

if you want to import multiple classes that are in different packages declare them like this.

<%@ page import="yourpackagename.Test,yourpackagename2.Test2" %>

Also, I highly suggest you put your Test class outside the default package, and put it in another package.

Upvotes: 2

Suresh Atta
Suresh Atta

Reputation: 121998

Make sure about the @import as others said

and then The "class" attribute specifies the actual class of the bean instance.

 <jsp:useBean id="link" scope="application" class = "fullpackagename.TestJava" />
      <% TestJava t=new TestJava();
      t.test("Joy");
     %>

Upvotes: 1

Chandra Prakash Verma
Chandra Prakash Verma

Reputation: 11

<%@ page import="TestJava" %> Make sure that your TestJava is in the classpath

Upvotes: 1

Neha Choudhary
Neha Choudhary

Reputation: 4870

You have to write fully qualified name of your class in page directive

<%@ page import="fully qualified name of the class" %>

Upvotes: 5

Erik Kaju
Erik Kaju

Reputation: 3173

In order to use class objects in java, you need to import classes first. Pretty much the same with scriplets in jsp, here you import it via <%@ page %> scriplet tags.

<%@ page import="your.class*" %>

Upvotes: 7

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