[James I. Falek]

Hi,

We are using Eclipse 2.1.3 with ME 2.7.1 on an struts-enabled project. This is one great tool! 😀

However, we are using struts-el and jstl tag libs and are have intermittent problems with command completion. On some of our JSPs, it works and sometimes not. Our taglibs are defined in the web.xml (under WebRoot) as follows

    <taglib>
        <taglib-uri>struts-html-el</taglib-uri>
        <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tlds/struts-html-el.tld</taglib-location>
    </taglib>

Our jsp looks like this:

<%@ page language="Java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="struts-html-el" prefix="html-el"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

    <snip>

<html-el:hidden property="category" value="abc"/>

However, when we put our cursor to the left of the “html-el:” or “c:”, we do not get command completion 😥 . Any ideas?

Thanks,

James
System Setup ——————————-
Operating System and version: Windowsxp
Eclipse version: 2.1.3
Eclipse build id: 200403101828
Fresh Eclipse install (y/n): n
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MyEclipse version: 2.71
Eclipse JDK version: 1.4
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– Message Body ——————————-

[Riyad Kalla]

James,
The autocomplete is currently fairly sensative to incomplete JSP pages and errors in the JSP page… for example, trying to get autocomplete in an open scriplet like <% |, will not work, but closing the scriplet and trying again will work.

However, I usually have not seen this behavior w.r.t. to taglibs. Do you have any errors in your JSP page as you are editing? Can you narrow down the completion problems to just the html-el tags or the JSTL tags?

[James I. Falek]

I got it working, but i am not sure what changed. I went back to the page and deleted all of the lines except for the

<%@ taglib uri="struts-html-el" prefix="html-el"%>

and was not command completion did not work. I then created a new page (File) in the same package named “a.jsp” and copied the previously mentioned line and magically, command completion worked! I then went back to the previous page and tried it again — and it command completion worked. OK, so somehow I “stimulated” ❗ the command completion into working.

Any ideas?

Signed happier, but still confused!

[Scott Anderson]

Just a thought, but there is some delay the first time completion is needed in a project because all the taglibs etc have to be parsed in the background to make the completions available. Perhaps while you “looked away” and created a new JSP the background process completed. You’ll have to determine based on what you saw and the delays if this suffices to explain it or not.

[Riyad Kalla]

GSX,
Scott is much too technical sometimes… we have added an AI to the code completion that sometimes just gets pissed off. Its possible you tried to use it while it was having a bad day. If this happens again, try complementing it and telling it how nicely it completes for you 😀

(naturally this is meant as a joke)

[James I. Falek]

You’re right! All I had to do was to tell the editor that it was the bomb and how well formed it was and then – bang it started to work. Talk about using cutting edge technology!!

You guys 😛 just crack me up.

Thanks for the laugh!

[Riyad Kalla]

LOL, I hope its working now.

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