Hello friends,
First, a quick
word about my environment. I've got Liferay6 running on Tomcat6. I've installed them from the Liferay+Tomcat bundle from Liferay's website. All of this is running on Ubuntu 10.10.
I am trying to develop a sample portlet for Liferay. I'm new to
jsp, Liferay, and web programming altogether, so really all I am trying to accomplish is to get thing to compute 2+3 and print 5.
I have created a portlet (I run Liferay's create.sh which creates a directory structure with all the files necessary), and that portlet works. I can navigate to the browser and see it work. Here is the working view.jsp file:
After verifying that this loads in the browser, I simply added one line to the end of the file:
This causes a very big error. After some investigation, I found that including any jsp at all on the page caused this error. In fact, including empty <% %> tags on the page produces same error, even if there is no
java code in them. When I remove the empty tags, the portlet works again.
Here is what the tomcat/logs/catalina.out looks like. First, I deploy the portlet, and everything appears hunky dory:
No fun at all.
Some internet searching tells me that the JasperException: Unable to load class for JSP is caused by syntax errors in the jsp file but, as I mentioned before, even one pair of empty jsp tags causes this error. The file at /java/liferay/tomcat-6.0.26/work/Catalina/localhost/iCOE-test-v2-portlet/org/apache/jsp/view_jsp.java appears in all respects to be syntactically correct.
I am really at a loss here, and any help with this is appreciated. As I said, while I am a decent java programmer, my experience with programming for the web is practically zero, so it is very possible that I have forgotten a small detail.
Thanks in advance,
Griff