Calling JSP with in WEB-INF

[Parameswaran Thangavel]

hi all,
My requirement:

i need to show a particular jsp page as a pop-up.

Both the source and destination jsp pages are inside web-inf, say temp.jsp and popup.jsp. On Clikcing the link in temp.jsp, popup.jsp is shown in a pop-up window. for which i am using the following in temp.jsp


<c:url var="thisURL" value="WEB-INF/jsp/popup.jsp">
<c:param name="index" value="${statusCode.index}"/>
</c:url>

And i am using the above url value in window.open function which is called from the href link.




The problem is the server is responding with the error code 404. so i doubt the way URL is coded.

so any idea where and whats the problem.

[Ben Souther]

Per the servlet spec, browsers can not see WEB-INF or any files under it.
If you want to store your JSP there, you will need to create a controller which forwards to it.

[Travis Hein]

I guess at the very minimum you could create a jsp page outside of the WEB-INF that just does an include your one in the WEB-INF.
That way, it can stay inside the WEB-INF for other places that want to use it there.

so make a new /popup.jsp

<jsp:include page="/WEB-INF/jsp/popup.jsp">
  <jsp:param name="index"  value="${param.index}"/>
</jsp:include>

well, the param is probably not needed, but is there for clarity.

then your link invocation would be

<c:url var="thisURL" value="/popup.jsp">
<c:param name="index" value="${statusCode.index}"/>
</c:url>