$ command not recognised.-Can you please advise

PatrickWalsh · January 13th, 2004, 12:08 PM

I am having problems with below example from chapter two
Basically there is a html form called pizza.html that sends information to a JSP page called Process.jsp which will display a summary of the order details.
The problem is that Tomcat does not seem to recognise the jsp code in the pizza .html file.
When you click the option âPlace Orderâ it displays the following
Name: ${param.name}
Address: ${param.address}
Peppers: ${param.address}
Sweetcorn: ${param.sweetcorn}
Mouse Innards: ${param.mouse}
Size: ${param.size}

Ps :
I also downloaded these source files from the wrox website and the exact same problem exists.
Am I missing some setting?

Can you please advise..
Thanks

PW

Martyn · January 13th, 2004, 03:22 PM

I've just loaded the Pizza example program from Chapter 3 and it ran fine; so I guess it would indicate that the problem is local to your machine. Where have you put the the files pizza.htm and process.jsp?

Cheers

Martyn

PatrickWalsh · January 14th, 2004, 11:40 AM

I saved them both to the same directory called Pizza in the webapps folder on my pc they both load fine but when i fill out the html form it does not apopear to recognise the jsp code.
One thing that is differant is that i am running Tomcat version four , could this be the issue,
Sorry i forgot to mention this before.

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Martyn
I've just loaded the Pizza example program from Chapter 3 and it ran fine; so I guess it would indicate that the problem is local to your machine. Where have you put the the files pizza.htm and process.jsp?

Cheers

Martyn

PW

Martyn · January 14th, 2004, 02:01 PM

Have you successfully deployed and ran any JSP programs since you installed Tomcat?

Cheers

Martyn

Martyn · January 14th, 2004, 03:47 PM

I can't comment about it being an issue with version 4.0. But to test your deployment I've created the folder tomcat\webapps and copied files pizza.html and process.jsp to it. I then restarted Tomcat and in my bowser I ran the following: http://localhost:8080/pizza/pizza.htm; entered data into the form; clicked on the 'Place Order' button; viewed the expected results. Everything was fine.

As a suggestion; run the following: http://localhost:8080/index.html and click on the 'JSP Examples' link then execute a few of the JSP examples provided. This will prove that your installation is correct.

Cheers

Martyn

PatrickWalsh · January 14th, 2004, 03:49 PM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Martyn
Have you successfully deployed and ran any JSP programs since you installed Tomcat?

Cheers

Martyn

PW

PatrickWalsh · January 14th, 2004, 04:06 PM

I have managed to run the the examples of jsp file that came with tomcat and they work fine .
I created the following jsp file from chapter one and it would not run
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Basic JSP</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Testing Calculation
    <p/>
    2 + 2 is ${2 + 2} and 4 * 4 is ${4 * 4}
  </body>
</html>

So played around with it and changed it to this and it worked fine ,,

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Basic JSP</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Testing Calculation
    <p/>
    2 + 2 is ${2 + 2} and 4 * 4 is ${4 * 4}
  </body>
</html>

Thansk for your help on this,
This one I cannot figure it why to0mcat does not recognise "$"
Pat

PW

Martyn · January 15th, 2004, 12:33 PM

Patrick,

Good, at least we have determined that Tomcat is alive and well!

The second example that you provided is the same as the first so I can't determine what it is that you actually changed. Also, I'm not sure what it is you are trying to do with the '$' sign. Are you trying to use it in place of out.println ?

Please post your code so I can see what it is you are doing; if you used the code from the download then it should be fine.

Cheers

Martyn

PatrickWalsh · January 16th, 2004, 09:19 AM

hI Martyn,
Sorry the actually code that worked for me was â¦.
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Jsp</title>
</head>
<body>
<p/>
2 + 2 is <%=2+2%> and 4 * 4 is <%=4*4%>
</body>
</html>

but when i tried to run the example given in the book , exactly as it appears in my previous post it fails.
When I use the url
http://localhost:8080/helloJSP/index.jsp
it displays the following.

Hello, world!
2 + 2 is ${2 + 2} and 4 * 4 is ${4 * 4}

PW

Martyn · January 16th, 2004, 12:44 PM

Patrick,

The <% %> method is the correct way; as you have discovered, any other varients don't work.

What book are you using as your reference? I thought that it was Beginning Java Web Development, but it can't be that as the sample you refer to isn't in my version of the book.

Out of curiosity, are you a Pearl programmer?

Cheers

Martyn