State Exception

Getting the following error in JDeveloper when using a java bean and forwarding data from a servlet to jsp:

500 Internal Server Error
java.lang.IllegalStateException: bean "NameBean" not found in "session" scopeat _ShowName. _jspService (ShowName.jsp:6)
[/ShowName.jsp]

Not quite sure if this is a bug or whether I am doing something wrong as far as configuring the project.

Did you bind an instance of NameBean to session before forwarding?
Also, is your bean in a package?

You might want to post the relevant parts of your code.

The jsp portion:
<jsp:useBean id="nameBean" type="mypackage.NameBean" scope="session" />

Servlet doGet():
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
NameBean nameBean = (NameBean)session.getAttribute("nameBean");
if (nameBean == null)
{
nameBean = new NameBean();
session.setAttribute("nameBean", nameBean);
}
String firstName = request.getParameter("firstName");
if ((firstName != null) && (!firstName.trim().equals("")))
{
nameBean.setFirstName(firstName);
}
String lastName = request.getParameter("lastName");
if ((lastName != null) && (!lastName.trim().equals("")))
{
nameBean.setLastName(lastName);
}
String address = "/Practice-Project-context-root/ShowName.jsp";
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(address);
dispatcher.forward(request, response);
}

type="mypackage.NameBean"

Are you hitting the page before hitting the servlet?
The useBean tag will conditionally create the bean for you if you use the class attribute instead of the type attribute.

At a glance, your servlet code looks right.

Also, are you definately calling the doGet and not the doPost method?

Yes it is calling the doGet() and does hit the page before servlet. When I changed the "type" to "class" I got the error for the "scope" in JSP page:
Method <init> not found in mypackage.NumberBean.

Thanks for your help, and sorry for the trouble on this one. Hopefully I can get to root of the problem.
Erick

Can you post the code to the NameBean?
(Use the UBB Code tags to preserve your indenting so we can easily read it.)

jsp code:
=======================================

servlet code
=========================================

package mypackage;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
 
public class RegistrationServlet extends HttpServlet 
{
  private static final String CONTENT_TYPE = "text/html; charset=windows-1252";
 
  
 
  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
  {
    HttpSession session = request.getSession();
    NameBean nameBean = (NameBean)session.getAttribute("nameBean");
    if (nameBean == null)
    {
      nameBean = new NameBean();
      session.setAttribute("nameBean", nameBean);
    }
    String firstName = request.getParameter("firstName");
    if ((firstName != null) && (!firstName.trim().equals("")))
    {
      nameBean.setFirstName(firstName);
    }
    String lastName = request.getParameter("lastName");
    if ((lastName != null) && (!lastName.trim().equals("")))
    {
      nameBean.setLastName(lastName);
    }
    String address = "/WEB-INF/ShowName.jsp";
    RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(address);
    dispatcher.forward(request, response);
  }
}

Bean code
====================================================

Here we go:

You're setting the attribute with name: "nameBean" but creating the id with "NameBean".

Change to

Then change all the references on your jsp to match the case in the useBean's id attribute.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Ben thanks for your input on this one.

Actually as it turns out there was one more error; JDeveloper did not seem to like the fact that I was not closing the <jsp:useBean> tags. In Tomcat this has never seemed to be a problem.

Thanks again!