JSPs not compiling with Java 8 in Eclipse Luna

gallfe · November 7th, 2014, 01:07 PM

This is my first post, so I hope I'm doing it right.

I'm having the issue where my JSP's compile with the default Eclipse compiler instead of my java 8 compiler.

I've did all the changes from Bug 54461 (link below) without any luck.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54461

Bug 54461 Comment 8 - looks like Nick Williams got it to work somehow.

----------------- Error Message ------------------

Code:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: 

An error occurred at line: 6 in the jsp file: /WEB-INF/jsp/view/viewSessionActivity.jsp
Underscores can only be used with source level 1.7 or greater
3: <%!
4:     private static String toString(long timeInterval)
5:     {
6:         if(timeInterval < 1_000)
7:             return "less than one second";
8:         if(timeInterval < 60_000)
9:             return (timeInterval / 1_000) + " seconds";
---------------------------------------------------

I'm not sure where to change the global Ant compiler properties in the Ant configuration itself (or if it's necessary).

I added the build.compiler property in the Eclipse Ant setup.
Window -> Preferences -> Ant - Runtime - Properties tab.
I tried combinations of:
build.compiler -> modern
build.compiler -> javac1.8

I did this just to try something different, but it didn't change anything:
I added the 3 jar files in the setenv.bat in the Eclipse Ant configuration:
Window -> Preferences -> Ant - Runtime - Global Entries tab.

Running setenv.bat in %tomcat_home%\bin results in:
C:\>cd %tomcat_home%\bin
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat 8.0.3\bin>.\setenv.bat
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat 8.0.3\bin>echo %classpath%
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05\lib\tools.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\apache-ant-1.9.2\lib\ant.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\apache-ant-1.9.2\lib\ant-launcher.jar

My tomcat web.xml configurations look like this:

Code:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>fork</param-name>
            <param-value>false</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
            <param-value>false</param-value>
        </init-param>
  <!--  I added this from book and bug 54461 -->
        <init-param>
            <param-name>compiler</param-name>
            <param-value>modern</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>compilerSourceVM</param-name>
            <param-value>1.8</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>compilerTargetVM</param-name>
            <param-value>1.8</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>suppressSmap</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>  
        <load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

Bug 54461 - Comment 6
I tried only changing this parameter from above:
. . . . . 
        <init-param>
            <param-name>compilerTargetVM</param-name>
            <param-value>1.7</param-value>
        </init-param>
. . . . .

Any suggestions would be appreciated.