I have written a sample JSP file in Eclipse and a Java file and was trying to call the Java class inside my JSP but it is not working. The code of the JAVA file is as follows:
TestJava.jva
public class TestJava {
public void test(String msg)
{
System.out.println("My name is "+msg);
}
}
The Javafile is located at src
folder. My JSP file test.jsp
is as follows:
test.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>My First JSP with JAVA</title>
</head>
<body>
<jsp:useBean id="link" scope="application" class = "TestJava" />
<% TestJava t=new TestJava();
t.test("Joy");
%>
</body>
</html>
It is giving error as "TestJava cannot be resolved to a type". I have studied other related posts in Stack Overflow but those approaches also did not work. Being new to JSP I cannot understand how to fix that error. So I am asking if anyone can help me to fix that problem.
Thank you.
In order to use class objects in java, you need to import classes first.
Pretty much the same with scriplets in jsp, here you import it via <%@ page %>
scriplet tags.
<%@ page import="your.class*" %>
You have to write fully qualified name of your class in page directive
<%@ page import="fully qualified name of the class" %>
You need to import your class using <%@ page %>
In your case, import Test in your jsp page like this.
<%@ page import="yourpackagename.Test" %>
if you want to import multiple classes that are in different packages declare them like this.
<%@ page import="yourpackagename.Test,yourpackagename2.Test2" %>
Also, I highly suggest you put your Test class outside the default package, and put it in another package.
<%@ page import="TestJava" %>
Make sure that your TestJava is in the classpath
Make sure about the @import
as others said
and then The "class" attribute specifies the actual class of the bean instance.
<jsp:useBean id="link" scope="application" class = "fullpackagename.TestJava" />
<% TestJava t=new TestJava();
t.test("Joy");
%>
Which IDE are you using? I recommend you use something like Eclipse with the JSP plugin. It will underline with a red objects that you attempt to declare that have not been compiled and imported.
You don't have to use beans by the way.. you can just create java objects and import them