Custom Tag issue and then ApplicationID?

Hello,
is there anybody out there who can help me with the following
problem:
I installed ColdFusion 4.5 Server on my Windows XP machine
and wanted to access an already built CF application. When
accessing
the main default page, i got the following error:
"Cannot find CFML template for custom tag
CFA_APPLICATIONINITIALIZE.
ColdFusion attempted looking in the tree of installed custom
tags but
did not find a custom tag with this name. "
I copied the same Administrator settings, code and folders
from the
working production server to my local machine and it just
doesn't seem
to work. (I couldn't find any differences to the working
application)
I tried to fix it by copying the custom tag folder (located
under allaire/spectra/customtags/) to C:\CFusion\CustomTags which
somehow cleared the previous error but gave me the following new
one:
"Error Occurred While Processing Request > Error
Diagnostic Information > This application can't be located by
name. Use ApplicationID instead"
Please, i appreciate any kind of comment on this post (i have
been trying to fix this for the past 3 days!)
Thanks,
bbinto

Spectra requires 4.5.1 or 5.
Run the Spectra install to set up all the correct mappings
and the webtop. Then copy over the custom application. It's been
awhile since I've dug into the folder structure of the webtop, so I
don't have a complete list of steps required for a Spectra app
deployment. So you still have some work ahead of you.
Just make sure you backup your database before the install,
mirror it, or use a new schema for the installation and then switch
over your datasources.
I would recommend an old Spectra book you can probably find
on eBay.
http://www.forta.com/books/0789723654/

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>

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Spectra requires 4.5.1 or 5.
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over your datasources.
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http://www.forta.com/books/0789723654/

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          > Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong or at least offer some
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          >
          > --
          > Jacob Meushaw
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          [email protected]
          BEA Systems, Inc.
          720-565-6613

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BuysFoundationTag
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import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
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<jspversion>1.1</jspversion>
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OMG I am a moron. I just have the name of the tag wrong.

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<%@ taglib uri="stlib-taglib.tld" prifix="stlib" %>
<stlib:allow_admin_access />
The behaviour I want is to prevent the rest of the JSP from loading if the custom tag is unable to obtain the companyID and administratorID from the session object.
I've not create custom tags before and would like some guidance on the tag handler class. Perhaps declare it:
public class AllowAdminAccess extends TagSupport
public int doStartTag(){...}
public int doEndTag(){...}
}Please advise,
Alan

Ok, I obtained a tutorial I found on the net and am trying to make it work on my application. So far, this is what I have:

<filter>
      <filter-name>AccessFilter</filter-name>
      <filter-class>mvcs.AccessFilter</filter-class>
      <description>This filter attempts of obtain a User object from the HttpSession. The User object would have been placed their identifying the user when he/she logged in. If it doesn't exist, the session has probably timed out, or this is an unauthorized user. If the User object is null the person is redirected to the Login.jsp page.</description>
      <init-param>
        <param-name>login_page</param-name>
        <param-value>/scholastic/Login.jsp</param-value>
      </init-param>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
         <filter-name>AccessFilter</filter-name>
         <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class AccessFilter implements Filter {
protected FilterConfig filterConfig;
private final static String FILTER_APPLIED = "_filter_applied";
public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException {
    this.filterConfig = config;
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
                   FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException
    boolean authorized = false;
    // Ensure that filter is only applied once per request.
    if (request.getAttribute(FILTER_APPLIED) == null)
      request.setAttribute(FILTER_APPLIED, Boolean.TRUE);
      if(request instanceof HttpServletRequest)
        HttpSession session = ((HttpServletRequest)request).getSession(false);
        if(session != null)
          User user = (User)session.getAttribute("scholastic.tracks.user");
          if(user != null)
             authorized = true;
    if(authorized)
      chain.doFilter(request, response);
      return;
    else if(filterConfig != null)
      String login_page = filterConfig.getInitParameter("login_page");
      System.out.println("login_page: " + login_page);
      if(login_page != null && !login_page.equals(""))
        System.out.println("Step1");
        filterConfig.getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(login_page).forward(request, response);
        System.out.println("Step2");
        return;
    throw new ServletException("Unauthorized access, unable to forward to login page");
public void destroy() { }
}The directory structure for my application goes like this:
webapps/scholastic/Login.jsp
webapps/scholastic/*.jsp
webapps/scholastic/admin/*.jsp
webapps/scholastic/WEB-INF/classes/servlets.class
Now, when I launch the browser and try to go to http://localhost:8080/scholastic/Login.jsp AccessFilter kicks in and since there is no User object in the session object yet, authorized will remain false. The logic continues to the line:
filterConfig.getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(login_page).forward(request, response);
But in the end I wind up with a Page Not Found 404 error.
I tried changing the <param-value>/scholastic/Login.jsp</param-value> to just <param-value>/Login.jsp</param-value> but this resulted in an endless loop condition with the Tomcat container. "/scholastic/Login.jsp" is the correct relative URL. So I'm stuck at this point.
Please advise,
Alan

Custom Tags in JSP

I am new to using custom tags. Is there a nice book or site which I could read on custom tags.
Also, I kind of understand custom tags but not completely confident.
I have a JSP that uses two custom tags, flight and segment. Basically, goes through each segment with flight tag and prints out attribute of segment with Segment tag. The code looks like this.
<flifo:flight isParent="true" fromParent="true" >
          <td bgcolor="<%=bgcolor%>" width="94" valign="top" class="t7">
                    <%-- Print FLIGHT NUMBER --%>
               Flight
                    <b><flifo:segment fromParent="true" attribute="flight_num" /></b>
                    <br>
</flifo:flight>
In the above code I just have flight_num but there are other attributes that it prints out. I want to check an attribute in segment and if it is ture then display some of the tags. How can I do it?

This has helped me a lot in the past:
http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/javaserverpages/cservletsjsp/chapter14.pdf
... and the book it's extracted from is very good too.

Error in running custom tag

Hi
I am new in jsp?s custom tag development and trying to run it's example with jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30. I have hello.jsp
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/mytaglib.tld" prefix="first" %>
<HTML>
<HEAD> <TITLE>hELLO tAG</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#ffffcc"><B>My first tag prints</B>
<first:hello/></HTML>
and mytaglib.tld as
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun MicroSystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">
<taglib>
<tlibversion>1.0</tlibversion>
<jspversion>1.2</jspversion>
<shortname></shortname>
<uri></uri>
<info>A simple tag library for the example</info>
<tag>
<name>hello</name>
<tagclass>HelloTag</tagclass>
<bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>
<info></info>
</tag>
</taglib>
and HelloTag.java as
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag;
public class HelloTag implements Tag {
     private PageContext pageContext;
     private Tag parent;
     public HelloTag() {
          super();     }
     public void setPageContext(PageContext arg0) {
          this.pageContext = arg0;}
     public void setParent(Tag arg0) {
          this.parent = arg0;}
     public Tag getParent() {
          return parent;}
     public int doStartTag() throws JspException {
          try{
               pageContext.getOut().print("This is my first Tag");
          }catch(Exception e){throw new JspException("Error);}
          return SKIP_PAGE;     }
     public int doEndTag() throws JspException {
          return SKIP_PAGE;}
     public void release() {     }
I am getting following error
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /hello.jsp(7,0) Unable to load class hello
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:94)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:428)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:219)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseCustomTag(Parser.java:712)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:804)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:122)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:199)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:153)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:227)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:369)
     at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:473)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:190)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
Can anyone help me in running this example.

an uri is not an url,
in your web.xml you should have something like
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://yourtaglib/taglib</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/yourtaglibtld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
that uri should be same as in the tld.file and same as in the <%@ taglib tag

Custom tag lib, tomcat server cant parse descripter file

Hi there, I'm working on custom tag libraries, and I have created a simple tag which prints a string when it is called from a jsp file. And I have created a descriptor file for that perticular tag and also created a jsp file which is using the tab lib that I have created, I have placed all these files in their corresponding files, well the problem is when I'm trying to call that jsp file it says the server can't parse the tags.tld file, because <urn></urn> must be declared. And can anybody throw some light on this! it would be much of help from you side, regards, Raasi
I have pasted all the files with the error message please have a look
************** Descriptor file ****************88
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">

<taglib>
     
     <tlibversion>1.0</tlibversion>
     <jspversion>1.1</jspversion>
     <shortname>csajsp</shortname>
     <urn></urn> 
     <info>
          A tag library from Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, http://www.coreservlets.com/.
     </info>
     <tag>
          <name>example</name>
          <tagclass>coreservlets.tags.ExampleTag</tagclass>
          <info>Simplest example: inserts one line of output</info>
          <bodycontent>EMPTY</bodycontent>
     </tag>
     
</taglib>
The JSP file which is using that descriptor file
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<%@ taglib uri="csajsp-taglib.tld" prefix="csajsp" %>
<TITLE><csajsp:example /></TITLE>
<LINK REL=STYLESHEET HREF="JSP-Styles.css" TYPE="text/css">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1><csajsp:example /></H1>
<csajsp:example />
</BODY>
</HTML>
error message from Tomcat4.1 server
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: XML parsing error on file /jsp/csajsp-taglib.tld: (line 9, col 7): Element type "urn" must be declared.
     at org.apache.jasper.xmlparser.ParserUtils.parseXMLDocument(ParserUtils.java:189)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.parseTLD(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:247)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:183)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:354)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:381)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:799)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:122)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:199)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:153)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:219)
     at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:323)
     at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:474)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:184)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:289)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:240)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:260)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
     at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:471)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2396)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
     at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
     at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:172)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
     at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:405)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:380)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:508)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:533)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
Apache Tomcat/4.1.12
********************************8

Hi,
I have used the following dtd file for a simple tag you can use it by just replacing the tag properties
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_2.dtd">
<taglib>
     <tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
     <jsp-version>1.2</jsp-version>
     <short-name>CooperatingTags</short-name>
     <description>
     </description>
     <tag>
          <name>first</name>
          <tag-class>com.opera.tagclasses.FirstTag</tag-class>
          <body-content>EMPTY</body-content>
          <attribute>
               <name>sessionID</name>
               <required>false</required>
               <rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
          </attribute>
     </tag>
</taglib>
I guess tag urn is not required.
Hope this helps
Ravi

Recordset per Message and then group again

Hi All,
    Advise would be aprreciated for the following issue we are having on a productive environment.
    The interface gets a 3.4MB file from a FTP server, performa a mapping and then saves a new file to the receiver ftp server.
    Sometimes, we get an error because the xml message that the AE sends to the IE does not contains all the information as the flat file. It seems that it runs out of resources and does not finish the xml transformation process.
     I have read several post in the SDN and even sap notes, about using the Recordset per Message option. However, this way I get a lot of IE messages but, also a lot of files in the FTP server and I only need 1. Is there any way I can split them to avoid this issue and then put them all together again? I don't like the "Append option".
     Thanks and kind regards,
         David Encinas.

Hi David,
   Using split you can achive your requirement.
   First create the Structure as per your Source Format.
If your structure has different Sub structure , create for each substructure at the target end.
do the massage mapping in message tab source one message type , target multiple messages...do the same thing in Interface mapping .(Here select source and targets occurence 1 only)
create the Integration Process (BPM)..once receive the message you can validate the message using Switch statement , once condtion has satisfied then use the Transformation step (1:n) and then message use many Send steps.
You can create multiple files with same locations.
I had done same thing for my req....
Reagads,
Venu.

Help! pageContext is NULL in custom tag constructor!

I'm having a problem with a custom tag class, and I'm not sure whether it's because I'm doing something wrong, or because I'm running into a bug with Tomcat, JDK1.4b2, or something else. Basically, I'm finding that the pageContext object is null in the constructor of a custom tag class... something that I'm pretty sure is NOT supposed to happen.
I'm running JDK1.4b2 with Forte CE 3.1 (the bug predates the jumbo fix that brought it up to 3.0) and using Forte's embedded Tomcat.
I'm not sure whether it matters, but here's the sequence of events:
A servlet gets launched,
instantiates an object of type Error_list,
binds Error_list to the request object, and
forwards to a JSP that uses the custom tag defined by ListErrorsTag.
Unfortunately, pageContext is null in ErrorListTag's constructor, so the attempt to get the request object from the pageContext object generates a NullPointerException.
The SERVLET: *****************************************
// relevant lines from the servlet instantiating the object, binding it, and forwarding...
     Error_list errors = new Error_list("BAD_THINGS", "crash and burn");
     request.setAttribute("errors",errors);
     ServletContext sc = this.getServletContext();
     RequestDispatcher rd = sc.getRequestDispatcher("admin_category_create.jsp");
     rd.forward(request,response);
The JSP: ************************************************
In the JSP "admin_category_create.jsp" itself, I specify the taglib:
     <%@ taglib uri='/WEB-INF/AdminTags.tld' prefix = 'admin' %>
and reference it:
     <admin:listErrors>The errors will be listed here</admin:listErrors>
The Explosion of the Taglib: ************************
// beginning of Taglib class:
public class ListErrorsTag extends BodyTagSupport {
    private Error_list errors;
    public ListErrorsTag() {
    super()
    try {
         if (pageContext == null)
             System.out.println("uh oh! pageContext is null");
         ServletRequest request = pageContext.getRequest();
         errors = (Error_list)request.getAttribute("errors");
    catch (NullPointerException e) {
         System.out.println("boom!");
The Result: **************************************
Tomcat's error log:
uh oh! pageContext is null
boom!
if I eliminate the try/catch and allow the NullPointerException to take place, I get:
Error: 500
Location: /admin_category_create.jsp
Internal Servlet Error:
javax.servlet.ServletException
     at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:459)
     at _0002fadmin_0005fcategory_0005fcreate_0002ejspadmin_0005fcategory_0005fcreate_jsp_0._jspService(_0002fadmin_0005fcategory_0005fcreate_0002ejspadmin_0005fcategory_0005fcreate_jsp_0.java:338)
     at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:177)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:318)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:391)
     at org.netbeans.modules.web.tomcat.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:91)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
     at org.apache.tomcat.facade.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:194)
     at admin.processRequest(admin.java:126)
     at admin.doPost(admin.java:144)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:797)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
     at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java:210)
     at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:539)
Root cause:
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at AdminTags.ListErrorsTag.(ListErrorsTag.java:32)
     at _0002fadmin_0005fcategory_0005fcreate_0002ejspadmin_0005fcategory_0005fcreate_jsp_0._jspService(_0002fadmin_0005fcategory_0005fcreate_0002ejspadmin_0005fcategory_0005fcreate_jsp_0.java:272)
     at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:177)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:318)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:391)
     at org.netbeans.modules.web.tomcat.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:91)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
     at org.apache.tomcat.facade.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:194)
     at admin.processRequest(admin.java:126)
     at admin.doPost(admin.java:144)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:797)
     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
     at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java:210)
     at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:539)

Doing a little more experimentation, I discovered that pageContext is null in the constructor, but not null in the otherDoStartTagOperations() method (called by the doStartTag() method of the tag's class... it's something Forte forces you to do).
Is this normal? I was under the impression that pageContext is supposed to be defined EVERYWHERE in any class that extends BodyTagSupport... including the class' own constructor.
On a related topic, is there documentation somewhere as to what, exactly, Forte is doing behind the scenes when it's managing a taglib (how it keeps track of them, where it puts config files, how the entries it makes in them are different or extended from the normal layout, etc.)? At the moment, I suspect that half of the grief I'm having with writing taglibs is caused by Forte itself forcing me to do things in a roundabout way that bears little resemblance to the ways shown in different books on the topic (and in fact all but ensures that nearly every published example will fail and require major rewriting because of the way it forces tag classes to be structured), but I don't see any easy way to let Forte handle compiling the classes and testing them with its embedded Tomcat, but do the config file housekeeping myself I can be in control of it.

Custom Tag - Strange Error!!!

Hi All,
I've a custom tag.. and inside that I simply wrote up one
select query and following that I put one condition like this,
<cfif #qryCustomerSelect.cust_category# neq 5>
//Statements..
</cfif>
And I am getting one strange error stating
"qryCustomerSelec.cust_categoryt" is undefined... I tried dumping
the query and it worked well..
What I am doing wrong here?...
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