Weird character substitutions ?

Question

When accessing one of my url parameters it somehow gets changed to the actual parameter name with the jsp tag around it. But not a regular jsp tag, this one has a question mark in it.
String projectID = (String)request.getParameter("projectid") ;
Remember projectID has to be a number in String format.
When I do the call on the bean and print out the resulting sql statement that is giving me errors I get this-
INSERT(...) VALUES(<?rojectID%>...) I have no idea why it does that, I have checked the call to the bean and also to see if there was anything done in between the call to the bean and the execution of the statement and there was nothing wrong. At least from what I saw.
Thanks a lot.
Sunil Nicholas

Answer 1

You are right about missing the little things, that is something I am notorious for actually. The problem here though is that I am using a bean for all my sql stuff. So the function is called from the jsp and then uses the param. list to execute the insert statement. Also the statement I use to call the function uses a defined variable in the "java" part of the jsp. I have no clue as to why it would want to even insert the <%= %> tags. Catch my drift? Here's a little more of the code.
//this is to make sure there is a project id otherwise you have to start
// over
<%
String projectID = (String)request.getParameter("projectid") ;
if(projectID == null){
%>
<jsp:forward page="./prj_home.jsp" />
<%}
%>
/* Add Entry to DATABASE*/
prjb.addIssue(projectID, issueopendate, issuetargetdate, issueresolvedate, issuescope, issuequality, issuetime, issuecost, issueoriginator, originatortype, issueassignedto, assignedtotype, issuedescription, issuemitigationplan, issueimpact, issueclosed, issuevisible);