[depolitic]

Hi

I am leanring JSP, and am playing with Beans. I have this bit of code:

<jsp:useBean id="Data" class="DataBean" scope="request" />

But I get this error:

/Library/Tomcat/work/Standalone/localhost/depolitic/datainput_jsp.java:49: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class DataBean
location: class org.apache.jsp.datainput_jsp
DataBean Data = null;


My bean in Located in my /WEB-INF/classes/

Why cannot it find the bean? Do I have to make an entry into the web.xml file?

[DaGuy]

A few things you may want to look into are:

1. Put the bean in a package i.e. The first line of your code should be something like:

package SomeDirName.bean;

This could be a required -but I'm not 100% sure... To get this to work, you have to create the dir SomeDirName. Place your bean code in it. Change directory to the one that contains SomeDirName. Then, you must then execute javac with the relative path your bean code. Something like:

javac -d ./SomeDirName/DataBean.java

Your JSP code should look like:

<jsp:useBean id="Data" class="SomeDirName.DataBean" scope="request" />


2. Carefull with the scope attribute. Should it be session instead of request?


And the answer is no, you need not declare the bean in your web.xml.

Hope it helps!