Tuesday September 20, 2005
Page Fragments, Entities and Characters Switch to your JSP, and inside the body tag, type
Now try the same thing, but edit the text inside a page fragment. If you deploy, you'll see this in the browser:
Uh oh! What happened?
Turns out the app server doesn't realize that the page fragment file, the jspf file, should be interpreted as an XML-formatted JSP, just like the main document. As a result, the source fragment file (which is just a static JSP include behind the scenes) gets, well, mistreated. You can see a very similar thing with entities. If you go and insert JSPX entities in your fragment, these will not be correctly expanded and instead of spaces you'll see things like " ".
Here's how you can fix this. You basically need to tell the deployment container that it needs to treat .jspf files as XML formatted JSPs. Unfortunately, you can only do that using JSP 2.0. That means this won't work on deployment containers that don't support JSP 2.0. The bundled one, Sun Application Server 8.1, does (as does 8.0 which we shipped with Creator 1.0, so this solution works for Creator 1.0 as well.)
Switch to the Files view (it's in the same window container as the project navigator),
drill into your project, then open web/WEB-INF/web.xml. Switch to the
XML view. Replace the root <webapp> element with the following:
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
And then inside the body, insert the following:
<jsp-config>
<jsp-property-group>
<url-pattern>*.jspf</url-pattern>
<is-xml>true</is-xml>
</jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>
This is how this should look:
Now when you deploy, the page fragment text should be treated the way it's supposed to - and your Piña Colada will be on the way.
So why don't we just add this configuration info to the default web.xml we ship with Creator? Well, then you would no longer be able to use Creator with any older app servers. We're trying to hard to be compatible. However, we might be able to do something better here. I'll talk to Mr. Deployment to see what we can do.
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