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amir2 taghvaei
amir2 taghvaei

Reputation: 53

The method getContextPath() is undefined for the type ServletContext

Here is my JSP:

<HTML>
<BODY >
path : <%= application.getContextPath() %>
</BODY>
</HTML>

This file is correct in Tomcat7 and Tomcat6, but when I request the JSP page in Tomcat 5.32 of my Cpanel hosting, I get the following exception:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: 
An error occurred at line: 3 in the jsp file: /cal2.jsp
The method getContextPath() is undefined for the type ServletContext
1: <HTML>
2: <BODY>
3: path : <%= application.getContextPath() %>
4: </BODY>
5: </HTML>
Stacktrace: 
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:93)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330) 
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:451) 
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:328) 
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:307) 
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:295) 
    org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:565) 
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:309) 
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:308) 
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:259) 
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:72

How is this problem caused and how can I solve it?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9812

Answers (1)

Mac
Mac

Reputation: 1642

The getContextPath() method was added to ServletContext in version 2.5 of the spec, but Tomcat 5 only implements 2.4. However, request.getContextPath() does the same thing.

Upvotes: 12

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