Error message not displayed

[Ria Dev]

Hi,

I have problem when i use EL for the below scenerio. Please help

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SignUp.jsp:
<form id="newUserForm" action="registerServlet" method="post">
Email Address:<input type="text" name="email" value=""/>
${error.email.msg}
<input type="submit" name="signUp" value="SIGN UP" />
</form>
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registerServlet:

.. code for checking if email already exists in db
..if yes, then
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
session.setAttribute("error.email.msg", e.getMessage());
request.getRequestDispatcher("JSPs/SignUp.jsp").forward(request, response);
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when i submit the SignUp form , i am redirected to the same form but error message is not being displayed.

Please let me know if anything else has to added.

[bhanu chowdary]

Replace ${error.email.msg} with ${sessionScope["error.email.msg"]} and see if you are able to see the error messgae

[Ria Dev]

Thanks Bhanu, your solutions works.
If scope is not mentioned then, is it not that all the scopes(session,application,page,request) are searched for that particular variable? please correct me if i am wrong. As there were no other variables with the same name in any other scope, i used directly ${var}.I didnt get why it didnt work for me.

[Bear Bibeault]

Because the scoped variable name contains dots. You must use the general reference operator ([]) rather than the dot shortcut operator.

[Ria Dev]

Thanks Bear.