JSTL X JSP fragment

Hi there...
I put a right JSTL code in a JSP fragment and it didn't work? What am I supposed to do to run a JSTL code in a JSP fragment. Is there any configuration in special?
Thanks

There is a fundamental difference between the include directive [url http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/1.2/syntaxref129.html#997991]<%@ include %> and [url http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/1.2/syntaxref1214.html#8828] <jsp:include >
The <%@ include %> tag includes the file at translation/compile time. It is like copying and pasting the contents of the "fragment" into the main JSP. It is then translated, compiled and run.
The <jsp:include> tag includes the result of running that page at execution time. ie it is as if you made a web request to that URL, and pasted the response you got back into the response of the including page.
What does this mean in your case?
1 - a .jspf file will not be evaluated by <jsp:include>. If you make a request for the jspf file directly, it will send you the source, because it doesn't invoke the JSP servlet on jspf files.
Solution: change the file to meujstl.jsp, and it should include ok.
2 - The file needs to be standalone with regards to importing
- tag libraries
- packages (if any)
etc etc.
so you will need to import the core jstl taglib at the top of the page to use it with <jsp:include>
Cheers,
evnafets

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<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<type>boolean</type>
</attribute>
</tag>
</taglib>
Thanks and Regards,
Velrajan T.

For installing JSTL, all you need are the jar files in the web-inf/lib directory.
- No entries in web.xml
- no tld files lying around
- no problems!
I think you may have a versioning problem here.
What version of Tomcat are you using?
With JSP1.2 (eg Tomcat 4), you should be using JSTL1.0. <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
With JSP2.0 (eg Tomcat 5), you should use JSTL1.1. <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
Note the difference in the URIs. - the second one includes a /jsp
Currently you are using the URI for JSTL1.0, but you look to have the tld from JSTL1.1. If you are using a JSP1.2 container, I don't think it could read this tld file, hence the error.
Try installing the correct version of JSTL, properly (ie as they tell you in the readme file) and it should all work.
Cheers,
evnafets

How to pass values from JSTL to JSP or Javascript ?

Hi All,
Is it possible to share or use the variables which are declared are used by JSTL in JSP expression or scriplet code and in Java Script.
Example:
This Works:
<fmt:set var="test" value="JSTL" />
<fmt:out value="${test}" />
But, this gives error:
<% out.println(test) %>
And passing the value of variable 'test' to Java Script code also gives error.
How to use JSTL variables in JSP and in Javascript ?
Yours,
Sankar.B

<% out.println(pageContext.getAttribute("test") %>
If your tags use a different scope then you'll nee to access them accordingly e.g this will work
<c:set var="test" value="JSTL" scope="session" />
<c:out value="${test}" />
<% out.println(session.getAttribute("test")); %>

Another JSP Fragment bug (or JSF flaw?)

My application has a search box and go button in a JSPF fragment. But data content is rendered in a JSP. To demonstrate the problem I am going to slightly modify the Person/Trip tutorial sample:
1. Create a new project
2. Add Trip rowset to page1
3. Set criteria perseonid = ?
4. Add data table and bind it to trip rowset
5. Add Integer PersonID property to the session bean
6. Add PersonID initialization code:
personID = new Integer(1);
5. Add Page1 initialization:
try {
dataTable1Model.setObject(1, getSessionBean1().getPersonID());
dataTable1Model.execute();
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new FacesException(e);
5. Add a new JSP Fragment above the table and name it Test.jspf
6. Place an edit field (Search) and a button to submit the search
7. Add process value change event to the edit box:
getSessionBean1().setPersonID(new Integer((String)vce.getNewValue()));
8. Add action handler to the button but keep it empty for now since we do not have inter-page navigation here really
Now start project and enter 2 into search field click on the button and see the table did not update. Enter 3 and see that the table now shows the records for the person id 2.
So why do tutorial samples work and this JSPF does not? The problem is that JSPF fragment does not have any knowledge about the table data model on the Page1.jsp so it cannot synchronize it in the value change event!!! However, tutorial samples do update data model because value change event is in the same Java class. In this case JSPF is a completely different class.
Now please tell me what am I supposed to do? Don't suggest me to access Page1.tableDataModel from the Test.jspf since my JSPF can be included in different pages.
My current workaround again is using this call in the button action event:
try { getExternalContext().redirect("Page1.jsp"); } catch (Exception e) {};
Now, you have to pay me something for all that hard QA work I have to do for your entire QA department. ;-)
Here is the codes: (just in case)
Page1.java:
* Page1.java
* Created on December 19, 2004, 10:59 AM
* Copyright ybaykshtis
package test9;
import javax.faces.*;
import com.sun.jsfcl.app.*;
import javax.faces.component.html.*;
import com.sun.sql.rowset.*;
import com.sun.jsfcl.data.*;
import javax.faces.component.*;
public class Page1 extends AbstractPageBean {
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Creator-managed Component Definition">
private int __placeholder;
private HtmlForm form1 = new HtmlForm();
public HtmlForm getForm1() {
return form1;
public void setForm1(HtmlForm hf) {
this.form1 = hf;
private JdbcRowSetXImpl tripRowSet = new JdbcRowSetXImpl();
public JdbcRowSetXImpl getTripRowSet() {
return tripRowSet;
public void setTripRowSet(JdbcRowSetXImpl jrsxi) {
this.tripRowSet = jrsxi;
private HtmlDataTable dataTable1 = new HtmlDataTable();
public HtmlDataTable getDataTable1() {
return dataTable1;
public void setDataTable1(HtmlDataTable hdt) {
this.dataTable1 = hdt;
private UIColumn column1 = new UIColumn();
public UIColumn getColumn1() {
return column1;
public void setColumn1(UIColumn uic) {
this.column1 = uic;
private HtmlOutputText outputText1 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText1() {
return outputText1;
public void setOutputText1(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText1 = hot;
private HtmlOutputText outputText2 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText2() {
return outputText2;
public void setOutputText2(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText2 = hot;
private UIColumn column2 = new UIColumn();
public UIColumn getColumn2() {
return column2;
public void setColumn2(UIColumn uic) {
this.column2 = uic;
private HtmlOutputText outputText3 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText3() {
return outputText3;
public void setOutputText3(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText3 = hot;
private HtmlOutputText outputText4 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText4() {
return outputText4;
public void setOutputText4(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText4 = hot;
private UIColumn column3 = new UIColumn();
public UIColumn getColumn3() {
return column3;
public void setColumn3(UIColumn uic) {
this.column3 = uic;
private HtmlOutputText outputText5 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText5() {
return outputText5;
public void setOutputText5(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText5 = hot;
private HtmlOutputText outputText6 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText6() {
return outputText6;
public void setOutputText6(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText6 = hot;
private UIColumn column4 = new UIColumn();
public UIColumn getColumn4() {
return column4;
public void setColumn4(UIColumn uic) {
this.column4 = uic;
private HtmlOutputText outputText7 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText7() {
return outputText7;
public void setOutputText7(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText7 = hot;
private HtmlOutputText outputText8 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText8() {
return outputText8;
public void setOutputText8(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText8 = hot;
private UIColumn column5 = new UIColumn();
public UIColumn getColumn5() {
return column5;
public void setColumn5(UIColumn uic) {
this.column5 = uic;
private HtmlOutputText outputText9 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText9() {
return outputText9;
public void setOutputText9(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText9 = hot;
private HtmlOutputText outputText10 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText10() {
return outputText10;
public void setOutputText10(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText10 = hot;
private UIColumn column6 = new UIColumn();
public UIColumn getColumn6() {
return column6;
public void setColumn6(UIColumn uic) {
this.column6 = uic;
private HtmlOutputText outputText11 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText11() {
return outputText11;
public void setOutputText11(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText11 = hot;
private HtmlOutputText outputText12 = new HtmlOutputText();
public HtmlOutputText getOutputText12() {
return outputText12;
public void setOutputText12(HtmlOutputText hot) {
this.outputText12 = hot;
private RowSetDataModel dataTable1Model = new RowSetDataModel();
public RowSetDataModel getDataTable1Model() {
return dataTable1Model;
public void setDataTable1Model(RowSetDataModel rsdm) {
this.dataTable1Model = rsdm;
// </editor-fold>
public Page1() {
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Creator-managed Component Initialization">
try {
tripRowSet.setDataSourceName("java:comp/env/jdbc/Travel");
tripRowSet.setCommand("SELECT ALL TRAVEL.TRIP.TRIPID, TRAVEL.TRIP.PERSONID, TRAVEL.TRIP.DEPDATE, TRAVEL.TRIP.DEPCITY, TRAVEL.TRIP.DESTCITY, TRAVEL.TRIP.TRIPTYPEID FROM TRAVEL.TRIP WHERE TRAVEL.TRIP.PERSONID=?");
dataTable1Model.setDataCacheKey("com.sun.datacache.Page1.tripRowSet");
dataTable1Model.setRowSet(tripRowSet);
dataTable1Model.setSchemaName("TRAVEL");
dataTable1Model.setTableName("TRIP");
} catch (Exception e) {
log("Page1 Initialization Failure", e);
throw e instanceof FacesException ? (FacesException) e: new FacesException(e);
// </editor-fold>
// Additional user provided initialization code
try {
dataTable1Model.setObject(1, getSessionBean1().getPersonID());
dataTable1Model.execute();
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new FacesException(e);
protected test9.ApplicationBean1 getApplicationBean1() {
return (test9.ApplicationBean1)getBean("ApplicationBean1");
protected test9.SessionBean1 getSessionBean1() {
return (test9.SessionBean1)getBean("SessionBean1");
* Bean cleanup.
protected void afterRenderResponse() {
tripRowSet.close();
Page1.jsp
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="1.2" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
<f:view><![CDATA[
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
]]><html
lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta content="no-cache" http-equiv="Cache-Control"/>
<meta content="no-cache" http-equiv="Pragma"/>
<title>Page1 Title</title>
<link href="resources/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body style="-rave-layout: grid">
<h:form binding="#{Page1.form1}" id="form1">
<h:dataTable binding="#{Page1.dataTable1}" headerClass="list-header" id="dataTable1" rowClasses="list-row-even,list-row-odd"
style="left: 24px; top: 168px; position: absolute" value="#{Page1.dataTable1Model}" var="currentRow">
<h:column binding="#{Page1.column1}" id="column1">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText1}" id="outputText1" value="#{currentRow['TRIPID']}"/>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText2}" id="outputText2" value="TRIPID"/>
</f:facet>
</h:column>
<h:column binding="#{Page1.column2}" id="column2">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText3}" id="outputText3" value="#{currentRow['PERSONID']}"/>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText4}" id="outputText4" value="PERSONID"/>
</f:facet>
</h:column>
<h:column binding="#{Page1.column3}" id="column3">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText5}" id="outputText5" value="#{currentRow['DEPDATE']}"/>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText6}" id="outputText6" value="DEPDATE"/>
</f:facet>
</h:column>
<h:column binding="#{Page1.column4}" id="column4">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText7}" id="outputText7" value="#{currentRow['DEPCITY']}"/>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText8}" id="outputText8" value="DEPCITY"/>
</f:facet>
</h:column>
<h:column binding="#{Page1.column5}" id="column5">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText9}" id="outputText9" value="#{currentRow['DESTCITY']}"/>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText10}" id="outputText10" value="DESTCITY"/>
</f:facet>
</h:column>
<h:column binding="#{Page1.column6}" id="column6">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText11}" id="outputText11" value="#{currentRow['TRIPTYPEID']}"/>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText binding="#{Page1.outputText12}" id="outputText12" value="TRIPTYPEID"/>
</f:facet>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
<div style="left: 48px; top: 72px; position: absolute">
<jsp:directive.include file="Test.jspf"/>
</div>
</h:form>
</body>
</html>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>
Test.java
* Test.java
* Created on December 19, 2004, 11:01 AM
* Copyright ybaykshtis
package test9;
import javax.faces.*;
import com.sun.jsfcl.app.*;
import javax.faces.component.html.*;
import com.sun.jsfcl.data.*;
import javax.faces.component.*;
import com.sun.sql.rowset.*;
import javax.faces.convert.*;
import javax.faces.event.*;
public class Test extends AbstractPageBean {
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Creator-managed Component Definition">
private int __placeholder;
private JdbcRowSetXImpl personRowSet = new JdbcRowSetXImpl();
public JdbcRowSetXImpl getPersonRowSet() {
return personRowSet;
public void setPersonRowSet(JdbcRowSetXImpl jrsxi) {
this.personRowSet = jrsxi;
private HtmlInputText textField1 = new HtmlInputText();
public HtmlInputText getTextField1() {
return textField1;
public void setTextField1(HtmlInputText hit) {
this.textField1 = hit;
private HtmlCommandButton button1 = new HtmlCommandButton();
public HtmlCommandButton getButton1() {
return button1;
public void setButton1(HtmlCommandButton hcb) {
this.button1 = hcb;
// </editor-fold>
public Test() {
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Creator-managed Component Initialization">
try {
personRowSet.setDataSourceName("java:comp/env/jdbc/Travel");
personRowSet.setCommand("SELECT * FROM TRAVEL.PERSON");
} catch (Exception e) {
log("Test Initialization Failure", e);
throw e instanceof javax.faces.FacesException ? (FacesException) e: new FacesException(e);
// </editor-fold>
// Additional user provided initialization code
protected test9.ApplicationBean1 getApplicationBean1() {
return (test9.ApplicationBean1)getBean("ApplicationBean1");
protected test9.SessionBean1 getSessionBean1() {
return (test9.SessionBean1)getBean("SessionBean1");
* Bean cleanup.
protected void afterRenderResponse() {
personRowSet.close();
public String button1_action() {
// User event code here...
//try { getExternalContext().redirect("Page1.jsp"); } catch (Exception e) {};
return null;
public void textField1_processValueChange(ValueChangeEvent vce) {
// User event code here...
getSessionBean1().setPersonID(new Integer((String)vce.getNewValue()));
Test.jspf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<div style="-rave-layout: grid" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<p>Included Content Here</p>
<h:inputText binding="#{Test.textField1}" id="textField1" style="left: 48px; top: 48px; position: absolute" valueChangeListener="#{Test.textField1_processValueChange}"/>
<h:commandButton action="#{Test.button1_action}" binding="#{Test.button1}" id="button1" style="left: 240px; top: 48px; position: absolute" value="Submit"/>
</div>

Hi ,
Thanks for your valuable observations and feedback. I could observe that the workaround seems to be working fine. Thanks for providing the workaround.
The problem you are facing without the workaround is a known issue and our engineers are currently working on it.
Regards.
Creator Team.

How to skip validation for tag file, or jsp fragment?

hi
I have some jsp fragment and tag file in a workshop 10 project
workshop blame me about the jsp fragment (no start/end tag)
and unable to publish to server
is there a way to skip validation on some files?
I do found an check box call "validate JSP fragments" and I have un-ticked it. It does nothing.
please help

Yes, you can turn off validation either on project/folder/individual file.
Project:
Project > Properties - Validation AppXRay - un-check "Validate Workshop managed documents" (this is not recommended, you may loose entire AppXRay validation).Folder:
Project > Properties - Validation AppXRay - Exclude Folders tab, if all the JSP fragments are present in a particular folder (under WebAppRoot), you can pick that folder to be excluded from AppXRay validationFile:
Help > Help Contents - BEA Workshop User's Guide > Common IDE Tasks > "Using AppXRay" - Live Synchronization of artifacts with AppXRay - On this page scroll to the bottom you will find a table with list of comments that can be included in a JSP file to exclude file level validation.Ex:
<%--<nitrox:set-property property="validation" value="true"/> --%>
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Enhancement request: stylesheets for JSP fragments

empty

Thank you for the feedback. Some other great enhancements are not too far
down the road, including visual layout for Tiles applications and management
of your Tiles definitions. Definitely stay tuned and continue to let us
know what you would like to see in the product.
M7 Support
"Clark Archer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:41127e8f$[email protected]..
Would it be possible to have a method of specifying a default stylesheetfor JSP fragments in NitroX's JSP design view? I'm using Tiles for most
of my new presentation layer development and one problem is that, since
the stylesheet is typically specified in the layout rather than the
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Hi, there,
I'm trying to include a fragment JSP file (with an extension .jspf as suggested by JSP1.2 spec) in a JSP file as follows:
<jsp:include page="/header.jspf"/>
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Same thing happens with the RequestDispatcher.include method.
Is there a way to handle this in OC4J such as adding a servlet mapping?
Thanks.
Li

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So, instead of doing "jsp:include", you would do the following:
<%@ include file="/stuff.jspf" %>
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After googling a little bit I can find a way to set the tabIndex in my jsp fragments which are embeded in a jsp. I'm working with JSF and project woodstock.
I have embeded the fragment like this:
<div style="border-bottom: solid rgb(5, 5, 158) 1px; top: 1289px; position: absolute">
<jsp:directive.include file="myFragment.jspf"/>
</div>I'll be really gratefull for your help.

try this:
your.jsp
<html>
<SCRIPT>function buttonClick()
{document.compform.submit();}
</SCRIPT>
<body>
<form name=compform method=post action='your.jsp'>
<%
//write your code which you want to execute once the button is submitted
String submit;
submit=request.getParameter("mysubmit");
if ((submit != null) && (! submit.equals("")))
%>
<input type=hidden name=mysubmit value="submit">
<input type=button value=add onclick='buttonClick()'>
</form></body></html>

Access denied when trying to show table in jsp fragment?

I've had one page which has been groving obese over time.
Now I've started to split out parts into jsp fragments using f:subview
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                    <jsp:include page="/frontStoreSupport.jsff"/>
                  </f:subview> The new jsp fragment (frontStoreSupport.jsff in this case) has it's own frontStoreSupportPageDef.xml which contains the binding entries I use in the page.
My problem is that ADF Read Only table's on this page get an "Access denied." where the content is supposed to go, despite the fact that they worked fine
in the original page.
I've been into the Application > Security > Resource grants and added view to my application role, exactly like it was set up in the first page..
Any hints here would be greatly apprichiated
Regards
Baue

Ok, realized what the problem was - apparently, when using ADF components in a fragment, you need to add the datacontrol to the fragments page-definition file AND to the parent jsp:s page-definition file!

JSP Fragments (JSP 1.x) or JSP Segments (JSP 2.0)

I currently build a web project from a WAR file which includes JSP fragments (<root-context>/includes/*.jsp). When I compile the project JDeveloper 9.0.3.1035 will try and compile the fragments which will fail.
Sun recommends an alternate extension of '.JSPF'. When I rename the JSP fragments using this extension, JDeveloper will correctly exclude them from compilation. However no code insight, code highlighting, tag completion etc that JDeveloper does so well is available. Is there a way around this issue ?

The following solution solves most of this issue;
From the menu select tools/preferences,
Select File Types,
Select JSP Source,
Click Add button and enter the .jspf extension.
Restarting JDeveloper allocates the correct association with new .jspf files inserted to the project but those inserted prior to adding the .jspf extension have an incorrect association. Even selecting 'remove from project' then 'add to project' will not set up the correct association.
Can these files be correctly associated via some other means ?

Juggle between jstl and jsp!

I have a list of items and whose size is obtained by jstl as follows:
<c:set var="num" value="${fn:length(form.namesList)}"/>I have to find the number of blocks using jsp and I am trying as follows which is giving jspException.
<%int numCols = (int)Math.ceil( num / 10.0);%>Can anyone tell me the problem over here?
I need to use numCols to display my results using jstl as follows:
<c:forEach var="y" begin="${1}" end="${numCols }">
</c:forEach>Can juggle between jstl and jsp like this?

This depends on the version of JSP you are using:
If you are using JSP 2.0 (like Tomcat 5), make sure you have downloaded and installed JSTL 1.1 and set the web.xml up to use the Servlet 2.4 specs. Then the code you wrote should work.
If you are using JSP 1.x (like Tomcat 4 and below), make sure you have JSTL 1.0. Then you can only use EL (the Expression Language used to translate ${...} expressions) inside JSTL.
If you want to use EL inside your custome tags, look through the Apache Jakarta sight. Somewhere they have an ELExpression translator (a couple of classes actually - whose full names I forget). These classes will let you take the ${...} expressions in as strings, pass them through the translators and get the correct objects back out.
Or you could go a simpler root:
<mob:whatever object="test" name="newname" />
then in your custom tag:
MyType test = (MyType)pageContext.findAttribute(object);
test.setName(name);

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I am trying to use the JSP Fragments feature of JSP 2.0 specification which is supported by WLP 9.2
<jsp:attribute name="stringFrag">
This is the output of chaining 2 defined strings: ${result}
</jsp:attribute>
Workshop is complaining about the unknown tag for jsp

Yes, that's true. It looks like the bug is there in the eclipse.
https://www.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=105460
I appreciate if you guys find any work around for this problem in weblogic portal 9.2.
Good luck !
Sriman

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Hi all,
I have a query regarding JSP Tag file authoring by extending the TagSupport class. I would like to know if it is possible to include a JSP file fragment inside a Java file somehow.
Specifically, I have created a simple template tag, which adds a header and footer template to the resulting HTML page.
<bc:template>
Hello World!
</bc:template>produces for example
<html><body>
Hello World!
</body></html>Now I have two JSP fragment files (head.jspf and foot.jspf), and I want to do do something like
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public void doFinally() {
    // somehow include foot.jspf
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thanks
nilesh

Your intention is to put a header/footer on pages in your web application?
There is another way to do it - specify prelude/coda jsp fragments in web.xml
Something like the following:
<jsp-config>
<jsp-property-group>
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
    <include-prelude>/WEB-INF/jspf/head.jspf</include-prelude>
    <include-coda>/WEB-INF/jspf/foot.jspf</include-coda>
</jsp-property-group>
<jsp-config>

How To user jstl in jsp 1.2?

hai all,
i can use jstl for each tag in jsp2.0 but i want to use it with weblogic 8.1 and it support servlet 2.3 and jsp 1.2 only. can any body show me how to use forEach tag in jsp 1.2.
thanks in advance,
Rahul

Then you'll need to use JSTL 1.0 instead of JSTL 1.1
read this: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html
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