jsp getServletContext() error
- by Reigel
html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Murach's Java Servlets and JSP</title>
</head>
<body>
<%-- import packages and classes needed by the scripts --%>
<%@ page import="business.*, data.*" %>
<%
//get parameters from the request
String firstName = request.getParameter("firstName");
String lastName = request.getParameter("lastName");
String emailAddress = request.getParameter("emailAddress");
// get the real path for the EmailList.txt file
ServletContext sc = this.getServletContext();
String path = sc.getRealPath("/WEB-INF/EmailList.txt");
// use regular Java objects
User user = new User(firstName, lastName, emailAddress);
UserIO.add(user, path);
%>
<h1>Thanks for joining our email list</h1>
<p>Here is the information that you entered: </p>
<table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" border="1">
<tr>
<td align="right">First name:</td>
<td><%= firstName %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Last name:</td>
<td><%= lastName %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Email Address:</td>
<td><%= emailAddress %></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>To enter another email address, click on the Back <br />
button in your browser or the Return button shown <br />
below.</p>
<form action="index.jsp" method="post">
<input type="submit" value="Return" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
and it's giving me this error page...
Compilation of 'C:\bea\user_projects\domains\mydomain.\myserver.wlnotdelete\extract\myserver_sample01_WebContent\jsp_servlet__display_email_entry.java'
failed:
C:\bea\user_projects\domains\mydomain.\myserver.wlnotdelete\extract\myserver_sample01_WebContent\jsp_servlet__display_email_entry.java:140:
cannot resolve symbol probably
occurred due to an error in
/display_email_entry.jsp line 19:
ServletContext sc =
this.getServletContext();
Full compiler error(s): C:\bea\user_projects\domains\mydomain.\myserver.wlnotdelete\extract\myserver_sample01_WebContent\jsp_servlet__display_email_entry.java:140:
cannot resolve symbol symbol : method
getServletContext () location: class
jsp_servlet.__display_email_entry
ServletContext sc = this.getServletContext(); //[
/display_email_entry.jsp; Line:19] ^
1 error Thu Jun 03 15:56:09 CST 2010
any hint? I'm really new to JSP, and this is my first learning practice... can't find it by google.com....
thanks!
