Question

The jsp page named uploadTextContent.jsp contains the following code,

<html:cancel value="Close" accesskey="c" styleClass="Button" onclick="JavaScript:closeWellFormatContent('<%=request.getAttribute("message")%>')" />

When tried to be deployed in Weblogic 10, I am getting the following error while activating changes.

Substituted for the exception weblogic.servlet.jsp.CompilationException which lacks a String contructor, original message – uploadTextContent.jsp:51:137: This attribute is not recognized. ‘)” /> ^—–^

Could you please let me know what shall be the rootcause for this error and how this can be rectified.

Answer 1

<%=request.getAttribute("message")%> – this scriptlet contains double quotes and it appears inside of attribute’s double quotes.

Try to replace scriptlet with EL expression (to avoid double quotes):

<html:cancel value="Close" accesskey="c" styleClass="Button" onclick="JavaScript:closeWellFormatContent('${requestScope.message}')" />

EDIT

It might be that EL evaluation is disabled. In order to enable it you need to set isELIgnored of the page directive to false:

<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>

This setting will enable JSP evaluation for one page. If EL evalution is required in all or most of the pages then it’s better to set el-ignored configuration option to false in web.xml like this:

<jsp-config>  
  <jsp-property-group>  
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>  
    <el-ignored>false</el-ignored>  
  </jsp-property-group>  
</jsp-config>