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Hello frns,
I have a servlet ViewServlet.java where I take a request dispatcher object and try to forward the request to another page hello.jsp that has absolutely nothing except a hello message. Even though I am getting a strange error like the following in Jboss app server. I have not configured jsps in web.xml file as they can be used still.
"20:33:50,029 ERROR [Engine] ApplicationDispatcher[/multirecordview] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /hello.jsp(0,36) equal symbol expected
"
after a few stack trace it gives
"at component.ViewServlet.doPost(ViewServlet.java:64)"
and my line no 64 is a System.out.println() just after forward. When I print the exception I get..
"org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /hello.jsp(0,36) equal symbol expected"
ViewServlet.java
================
62 : RequestDispatcher requestDispatcher = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/hello.jsp");
63 : requestDispatcher.forward(request, response);
hello.jsp
=========
<%@ page language="java" contentType"text/html" %>
<html>
hello
</html
I hope I have made the things clear. Can anyone put some light on this ..
Waiting for replies,

nitin
 
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/hello.jsp(0,36) equal symbol expected
<%@ page language="java" contentType"text/html" %>


Not to be a jerk, but did you even try to figure this one out? I mean, it even gave the character position where it expects an equals sign.
 
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yes I did bang my head for the problem. but since I got the error for the first time I was confused. anyways I got the problem. what was just a simple typing mistake that ate some of our valuable time..
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LOL


<%@ page language="java" contentType"text/html" %>


Look closely.
 
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It is good to test your jsp files separately and then test them together.
 
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hi the problem is in the first line
<%@ page language="java" contentType"text/html" %>
<%@ page language="java" contentType = "text/html" %>
the = sign is missing ;
i hope it will definately help you
ok by
 
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Welcome to the Ranch "lali lali"!
You'll find this forum a great place to seek help on JSP pages, and there aren't many rules you'll have to worry about, but one is that proper names are required. Please take a look at the JavaRanch Naming Policy and change your display name to match it.
In particular, your display name must be a first and a last name separated by a space character, and must not be obviously fictitious.
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