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Re: Problem with <fmt:formatDate>

From: Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter <edson.richter_at_mgrinformatica.com.br>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:32:24 -0300

Use JSTL 1.1 for scripted tags:


<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt"/>


Best regards,

Edson Richter



glassfish_at_javadesktop.org escreveu:
> I am trying to deploy a very simple JSP using the JSTL <fmt:formatDate> tag. I am using Glassfish V2 beta.
>
> The body of the JSP is:
> [code]
> <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
> pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt"%>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> <title>FormatDate</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <jsp:useBean id="rightNow" scope="page" class="java.util.Date" />
> <fmt:formatDate value="${rightNow}" />
> </body>
> </html>
> [/code]
> It follows an example in the Java EE 5 tutorial pretty closely (the example can be found in page 194 of the PDF version of the Java EE 5 tutorial).
>
> When I deploy the war file containing the JSP and point the browser to it, I get the following error message:
>
> org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /formatDate.jsp(12,0) PWC6236: According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute value does not accept any expressions
>
> note The full stack traces of the exception and its root causes are available in the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 logs.
>
> >From the example, it looks like the value attribute should accept expressions. I opened appserv-jstl.jar, which contains JSTL tlds and code, and opened the version of fmt.tld inside that jar file. The relevant section looks like this:
>
> [code]
> <tag>
> <description>
> Formats a date and/or time using the supplied styles and pattern
> </description>
> <name>formatDate</name>
> <tag-class>org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.rt.fmt.FormatDateTag</tag-class>
> <body-content>empty</body-content>
> <attribute>
> <description>
> Date and/or time to be formatted.
> </description>
> <name>value</name>
> <required>true</required>
> <rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
> </attribute>
> [/code]
>
> It is my understanding that if rtexprvalue is set to true, then the attribute should accept EL expressions.
>
> Did I just find a bug in Glassfish or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
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