Unable to compile class for JSP:

[Ajay Kumar bathula]

Hi I have Simple jsp pagewhich reads a parameter and returns an xml string.When i try to call this page i get the following error on the page

09-May-2008 11:34:50 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:


Stacktrace:
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:85)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:415)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:308)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:273)
at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:566)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:308)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:228)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:216)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:634)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:445)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)



Here is my Jsp Page
-------------------
<%!

String str=null;
%>
<%
String searchCode = request.getParameter("sinput");
System.out.println("searchCode = " + searchCode);

if (searchCode.equals("cars"))
{
str = "<search-results>" +
"<total>2</total>" +
"<result>" +
"<code>1</code>" +
"<name>Ford Focus</name>" +
"<price>10000.00</price>" +
"</result>" +
"<result>" +
"<code>2</code>" +
"<name>Audi A4</name>" +
"<price>20000.00</price>" +
"</result>" +
"</search-results>";
}
else if(searchCode.equals("computers"))
{
str = "<search-results>" +
"<total>2</total>" +
"<result>" +
"<code>3</code>" +
"<name>Dell Inspiron</name>" +
"<price>500.00</price>" +
"</result>" +
"<result>" +
"<code>4</code>" +
"<name>IBM</name>" +
"<price>800.00</price>" +
"</result>" +
"</search-results>";
}

%>
<%= str %>

[Ajay Kumar bathula]

I use "apache-tomcat-6.0.10" and JDK 1.5

[Ben Souther]

In the Tomcat logs, is there a "Root cause" section right after that stack trace?

This usually points to the problem in the JSP.

Also, once you get this to compile, you might want to change your JSP so it doesn't use an instance variable that gets changed from the service method.
The way it is written now is not thread safe.

[Ajay Kumar bathula]

Hi Ben

Thanks for your Reply. The stack trace i have given abouve is from the log file lacated at C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.10\logs\localhost.2008-05-12 file.
For the suggestion you gave to remove the instance variable, I have done that but of no use, I still get the same compilation error. There is no root cause section in the Logs I will give the complete stack trace once again for your reference from the logs.

12-May-2008 05:51:36 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: default: init
12-May-2008 05:51:36 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: jsp: init
12-May-2008 05:51:36 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: default: init
12-May-2008 05:51:36 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: jsp: init
12-May-2008 05:51:37 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
12-May-2008 05:51:37 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
12-May-2008 05:51:37 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: default: init
12-May-2008 05:51:37 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: jsp: init
12-May-2008 05:51:37 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: default: init
12-May-2008 05:51:37 org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: jsp: init
12-May-2008 05:52:16 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:


Stacktrace:
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:85)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:415)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:308)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:273)
at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:566)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:308)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:228)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:216)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:634)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:445)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

[Ben Souther]

Does the user under which Tomcat is running have sufficient permissions to write to the $CATALINA_HOME/work directory?

[Ajay Kumar bathula]

Hi Ben

I am not sure what you are talking about? I just have a simple jsp page which should return a string thats it. I deploy my web application through ant and call my page from the browser. I dont have any other servlet or any other configuration details in my web.xml file. This was working fine previously i don't know why this is happenning Now? Here is the snippet of my web.xml file.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 
<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
 
<web-app>
 
  <welcome-file-list>
      <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
 
</web-app>  

[Ajay Kumar bathula]

Hi Ben

Here is the Code of the Servlet that is generated after my jsp is converted to servlet. I only have the tomcat jars in my project library and there are no compilation error that i could see in intellij for the generated Servlet. Then why the server is complaining about compilation errors. The jars that i have in my projectlibrary are

jasper-el.jar

servlet-api

jsp-api

jasper-el

jasper

catalina-ant

Here is the servlet code

  
package org.apache.jsp;
 
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
import java.util.Hashtable;
 
public final class searchResults_jsp extends org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase
    implements org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspSourceDependent {
 

 
String str=null;
 
  private static final JspFactory _jspxFactory = JspFactory.getDefaultFactory();
 
  private static java.util.List _jspx_dependants;
 
  private javax.el.ExpressionFactory _el_expressionfactory;
  private org.apache.AnnotationProcessor _jsp_annotationprocessor;
 
  public Object getDependants() {
    return _jspx_dependants;
  }
 
  public void _jspInit() {
    _el_expressionfactory = _jspxFactory.getJspApplicationContext(getServletConfig().getServletContext()).getExpressionFactory();
    _jsp_annotationprocessor = (org.apache.AnnotationProcessor) getServletConfig().getServletContext().getAttribute(org.apache.AnnotationProcessor.class.getName());
  }
 
  public void _jspDestroy() {
  }
 
  public void _jspService(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
        throws java.io.IOException, ServletException {
 
    PageContext pageContext = null;
    HttpSession session = null;
    ServletContext application = null;
    ServletConfig config = null;
    JspWriter out = null;
    Object page = this;
    JspWriter _jspx_out = null;
    PageContext _jspx_page_context = null;
 

    try {
      response.setContentType("text/html");
      pageContext = _jspxFactory.getPageContext(this, request, response,
      null, true, 8192, true);
      _jspx_page_context = pageContext;
      application = pageContext.getServletContext();
      config = pageContext.getServletConfig();
      session = pageContext.getSession();
      out = pageContext.getOut();
      _jspx_out = out;
 
      out.write('\r');
      out.write('\n');
      out.write('\r');
      out.write('\n');
 
String searchCode = request.getParameter("sinput");
  System.out.println("searchCode = " + searchCode);
 
if (searchCode.equals("cars"))
{
str = "<search-results>" +
"<total>2</total>" +
"<result>" +
"<code>1</code>" +
"<name>Ford Focus</name>" +
"<price>10000.00</price>" +
"</result>" +
"<result>" +
"<code>2</code>" +
"<name>Audi A4</name>" +
"<price>20000.00</price>" +
"</result>" +
"</search-results>";
}
else if(searchCode.equals("computers"))
{
str = "<search-results>" +
"<total>2</total>" +
"<result>" +
"<code>3</code>" +
"<name>Dell Inspiron</name>" +
"<price>500.00</price>" +
"</result>" +
"<result>" +
"<code>4</code>" +
"<name>IBM</name>" +
"<price>800.00</price>" +
"</result>" +
"</search-results>";
}
Hashtable<Integer,String> ht = new Hashtable<Integer, String>();
ht.put(new Integer("0"),"23");
 

      out.write('\r');
      out.write('\n');
      out.print( str );
    } catch (Throwable t) {
      if (!(t instanceof SkipPageException)){
        out = _jspx_out;
        if (out != null && out.getBufferSize() != 0)
          try { out.clearBuffer(); } catch (java.io.IOException e) {}
        if (_jspx_page_context != null) _jspx_page_context.handlePageException(t);
      }
    } finally {
      _jspxFactory.releasePageContext(_jspx_page_context);
    }
  }
}