include file Directive not working properly. Variable not resolved in jsp

Hello,

I have a jsp(lets call it A.jsp) that has a second jsp(lets call it as B.jsp) included using the include directive. I have declared a variable testStr with some default value in it. But when I try to use it in B.jsp, I get the error msg that says, testStr not resolved. I'm using RSA 7.0.0.5. I've included the corresponding jsps' code below.

When I use the same jsp in any other IDE, it works without any problem. Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
Jaggi

**************index.jsp****************************
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
    
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<% String testStr = "This is testing"; %>    
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Canon Search</title>
</head>
<body>
 
Autonomy.
<%@ include file="testIndex.jsp" %>
</body>
</html>
**************index.jsp****************************
 
**********************testIndex.jsp********************************
 
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Included jsp</title>
</head>
<body>
This is the included jsp.

<%out.write(testStr); %>
</body>
</html>
**********************testIndex.jsp********************************

[ March 17, 2008: Message edited by: Jaggi Shankarappa ]

[ March 17, 2008: Message edited by: Jaggi Shankarappa ]
[ March 17, 2008: Message edited by: Jaggi Shankarappa ]

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Hi, I am not an expert in JSP but my hunch is that you have testStr in the first JSP and you declare it as a local variable. My guess is testStr's scope is only within the first JSP you wrote.
maybe this might work, but I am not sure

hope this helps

Nope. That does not work either.

Thanks,
Jaggi

Originally posted by Davie Lin:
Hi, I am not an expert in JSP but my hunch is that you have testStr in the first JSP and you declare it as a local variable. My guess is testStr's scope is only within the first JSP you wrote.
maybe this might work, but I am not sure
<%! String testStr = "This is string";%>
hope this helps

Bad idea. Hugely, hugely bad idea.

Never ever ever declare variables in a JSP declaration block. Ever.

I'm using RSA 7.0.0.5

I have no idea what RSA is.

RSA is the latest version of J2EE IDE from IBM. You can also call it as WSAD 7

Since the problem seems to be confined to a particular IDE, I've moved this to a more appropriate location.

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
Since the problem seems to be confined to a particular IDE, I've moved this to a more appropriate location.

Can you please let me know why don't we use decalrations in JSP.....

Originally posted by Naresh. Talluri's:
Can you please let me know why don't we use decalrations in JSP.....

It is considered bad practice to have any Java code in a JSP. Needing to declare variables puts even more logic into the JSP.