Writing EL Function

[Jigar Naik]

Hi i have written EL function which displays current date. but its not getting called.

bellow is my el function

package com.interactcrm.notification.tags;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class ELGetCurrentDate {

	public static String getCurrentDate() {
		DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
		Date currentDate = new Date();
		String todayDate = dateFormat.format(currentDate);
		return todayDate;
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.out.println(getCurrentDate());
	}
}

Bellow is my tld file elutil.tld which i have placed in WEB-INF/tld/elutil.tld

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN" 
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">
<taglib>
	<tlibversion>1.0.25</tlibversion>
	<jspversion>2.0</jspversion>
	<uri>http://smsconnect/utility/tags</uri>
	<function>
		<name>getCurrentDate</name>
		<function-class>com.interactcrm.notification.tags.ELGetCurrentDate
	</function-class>
		<function-signature>String getCurrentDate()</function-signature>
	</function>
</taglib>

bellow is my entry in web.xml

...
...
	<jsp-config>
		<taglib>
			<taglib-uri>http://smsconnect/utility/tags</taglib-uri>
			<taglib-location>WEB-INF/tags/elutil.tld</taglib-location>
		</taglib>
	</jsp-config>
</web-app>

and bellow is my jsp in which i am ivoking the function

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
	pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" isELIgnored="false"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tags/elutil.tld" prefix="u"%>
...
...
<input name="notificationDate" id="notificationDate" type="text"
	size="15" value="${u.getCurrentDate }" /></p>
...
...

Am i missing something ?

[Bear Bibeault]

${u.getCurrentDate()}

and

<function-signature>java.lang.String getCurrentDate()</function-signature>

[Jigar Naik]

hey thanks a lot.. its worked.