New to JSTL

[William R Briggs <wr...@us.ibm.com>]

I've done a small amount of JSP and servlet programming in the past, but 
most of my java programming has not been web-based.  I am currently trying 
to write a small JSP web application in order to learn more about it.

In my app, I have a bean that performs some database access via JDBC.  The 
bean has a method that returns an ArrayList of customer names, and I want 
to list these names in a pull-down.  Prior to using JSTL, I would have 
done this:


<select name="custName">

<%
ArrayList custNames = foundryCustomerQuery.getCustomerList();

for(int i = 0; i < custNames.size(); i++) {
  <option selected="selected"> <%= custNames.get(i) %> </option><%
}

%>

</select>

This works fine, just as I expect it would.

Now, trying to do this with JSTL:

      <c:forEach var="customer" 
items="${foundryCustomerQuery.getCustomerList()}">
        <option><c:out value="${customer}" /></option>
      </c:forEach>

I receive the error "The function getCustomerList must be used with a 
prefix when a default namespace is not specified."  I'm stumped, as my 
knowledge of JSTL is not great enough to figure out what is going on here. 
 I have also tried mixing a scriptlet with the JSTL tags (not something I 
want to do), like so:

<%
ArrayList custNames = foundryCustomerQuery.getCustomerList();
%>
<c:forEach var="customer" items="${custNames}">
        <option><c:out value="${customer}" /></option>
</c:forEach>

This produces no errors, but the forEach loop provides no output.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Will

William Briggs
Software Engineer
IBM Foundry e-Business and Technical Operations
T/L: 446-4051
(802) 769-4051
wrbriggs@us.ibm.com