On 5/8/07, Christopher Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1Richard, Richard Sayre wrote: > I started to look in the _jspService and I noticed the the variable > which I assign the request.getParameter("id") to is not in that > method. Note that JSP authors these days almost never actually call request.getParameter()... they use a tag library which helps cut down on the confusion such as this. > The variable is called 'theID'. One thing I noticed about it is it > is declared like this > > !String theID; That's invalid Java syntax. Can you give us a few more characters around that declaration? For instance: <%! String theID; %> Creates a member of the class, which will be shared across all invocations of the JSP. If that's the case, then you've found your problem. > I have never seen this before. Does this make the variable static? Not static. Just class-level instead of being declared as a local within the body of the service method (which is what you really want). > I 3 years I have never encountered it [ <%! ... %> syntax]. That's because it's almost never done. It only really makes sense when you want to declare a method for use within the class. Declaring class members this way usually leads to tears. > Hopefully removing it will solve my problem. You just want to remove the !, actually. The declaration is probably required. - -chris
The ! operator was the cause of my problem. I would like to thank everyone for their help and insight. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
