The quality of the JSP compiler error messages for Tomcat 5 seems much worse than those for Tomcat 4. The difference makes debugging much harder under the Tomcat 5.5 releases. Is there a way to build Tomcat with different components to have it provide better compiler error messages?
As an example, this JSP code snippet: errMsg = "Uploaded file has no readable records or is empty."); generates this compiler error message in Tomcat 5.5.12: -------------------------------------------------------- SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP An error occurred at line: 7 in the jsp file: /adminArea/UploadFile.jsp Generated servlet error: Syntax error on token ")", delete this token ------------------------------------------------------------ However, the same file under Tomcat 4.1.24 generates this compiler error message: ----------------------------------------------------------- Generated servlet error: [javac] Since fork is true, ignoring compiler setting. [javac] Compiling 1 source file [javac] Since fork is true, ignoring compiler setting. [javac] D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24\work\Standalone\localhost\_\adminArea\UploadFile_jsp.java:1998: ';' expected [javac] errMsg = "Uploaded file has no readable records or is empty."); [javac] ^ [javac] 1 error ---------------------------------------------------------- M Coffee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]