Donald,

The console testsuites are failing. I'm seeing the following exception
on a number of different portlets in the console:

11:49:49,298 ERROR [[JMSWizard]] Servlet.service() for servlet
JMSWizard threw exception
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.prepare(ExpressionBuilder.java:135)
        at 
org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.build(ExpressionBuilder.java:147)
        at 
org.apache.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.createValueExpression(ExpressionBuilder.java:190)
        at 
org.apache.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl.createValueExpression(ExpressionFactoryImpl.java:68)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.proprietaryEvaluate(PageContextImpl.java:924)
        at 
jsp.WEB_002dINF.view.jmswizard.list_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fwhen_005f0(list_jsp.java:218)
        at 
jsp.WEB_002dINF.view.jmswizard.list_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fchoose_005f0(list_jsp.java:192)
        at 
jsp.WEB_002dINF.view.jmswizard.list_jsp._jspService(list_jsp.java:117)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:806)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:630)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:535)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:472)
        at 
org.apache.pluto.internal.impl.PortletRequestDispatcherImpl.include(PortletRequestDispatcherImpl.java:106)
        at 
org.apache.geronimo.console.MultiPagePortlet.doView(MultiPagePortlet.java:151)
        at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.doDispatch(GenericPortlet.java:247)
        at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.render(GenericPortlet.java:175)
        at 
org.apache.pluto.core.PortletServlet.dispatch(PortletServlet.java:208)
        at org.apache.pluto.core.PortletServlet.doGet(PortletServlet.java:139)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:693)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:806)

I'm not sure if this is a new bug somewhere or if some other changes
are required to the JSPs.

Jarek

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Donald Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a notice to developers and users -
>
> I've run into several JSP files in our build (mainly the monitor webapp)
> that require code changes to work with Tomcat 6.0.18, due to tightened code
> around the JSP 2.0 spec in Jasper during the Tomcat 6.0.17 release.
>
> The build errors look something like -
> org.apache.jasper.JasperException:
> file:/Users/drwoods/geronimo/server-trunk/plugins/monitoring/mconsole-war/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/monitoringEditView.jsp(168,168)
> Attribute value rs.getString("server_id") is quoted with " which must be
> escaped when used within the value
>        at
> org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40)
>
>
> There are several places in the portlet code where we have -
>     value="<%=rs.getString("server_id")%>"
> which had to be changed to
>     value='<%=rs.getString("server_id")%>'
>
>
> The full text of the Tomcat Jasper change can be found at -
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45015
> with the basic explanation being -
>
> According to JSP 2.0 specification (chapter 1.7 page 72,73)
>
> This code is illegal:
> <mytags:tag value="<%= "hi!" %>" />
>
> Instead the correct sentence would be:
> <mytags:tag value='<%= "hi!" %>' />
> <mytags:tag value="<%= \"hi!\" %>" />
> <mytags:tag value='<%= \"name\" %>' />
> ...
>
>
> -Donald
>

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