[ktz]

– System Setup ——————————-
Operating System and version: XP Professional
Eclipse version: 3.0.1
Eclipse build id:
Fresh Eclipse install (y/n): y
If not, was it upgraded to its current version using the update manager?
Other installed external plugins:
Number of plugins in the <eclipse>/plugins directory that begin with org.eclipse.pde.*:
MyEclipse version: 3.8.1
Eclipse JDK version: 1.4.2
Application Server JDK version: 1.4.2 – Tomcat 5.0.25
Are there any exceptions in the Eclipse log file?

I have servlet “A” forwarding to “a.jsp”. In “a.jsp” I have the following JSTL line :

<c:import url=”/includes/doingheader.htm” context=”/extemplates/”/>

but when this runs it produces the following exception :

javax.servlet.ServletException: Unable to get RequestDispatcher for
Context: “/extemplates/” and URL: “/includes/doingheader.htm”. Verify
values and/or enable cross context access.

“extemplates” is a web project defined in MyEclipse with a folder “includes”.

How do I allow “a.jsp” to cross reference another project.

Can someone steer me in the right direction please.

[Riyad Kalla]

Moving to Random Thoughts, this is a JSTL/Cross-Webapp issue, nothing to do with ME.

However, what happens when you change your context to not include the trailing slash? Are you sure the webapp “/extemplates” is deployed and running? Check the Tomcat manager to make sure… just to do a sanity check, try and manually load the page that you are trying to invoke the tag on via:

http://localhost:8080/extemplates/includes/doingheader.htm

Did it work? If not, then you have another problem to worry about… maybe you forgot to deploy that project? Maybe Tomcat isn’t starting it up correctly, etc….

[ktz]

Riyad

Thank you for your thoughts.

I got it to work, and it was a Tomcat issue. The answer is to set the crossContext to true. This can be done by setting the context in the server.xml file. Make sure that you set a context for both applications.

<Context crossContext=”true” docBase=”C:/Java/Tomcat 5.0.25/webapps/extemplates” path=”/extemplates” >
</Context>
<Context crossContext=”true” docBase=”C:/Java/Tomcat 5.0.25/webapps/webapp1″ path=”/webapp1″ >
</Context>

[Riyad Kalla]

You know, I never knew what that setting did until today, thanks for following up!

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