DO NOT REPLY [Bug 13144] New: - Scriplet comment breaks JSPs silently

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Scriplet comment breaks JSPs silently

           Summary: Scriplet comment breaks JSPs silently
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: 4.1.10
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Jasper
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: boris@folgmann.de


There are already some bug reports about // comments in scriplets in the bug
database. Here is another one that is really dangerous, because jasper compiles
those JSPs without complaining, but the generated Java source doesn't work as
expected. See my simplified example:

part of a JSP:

<%  if (msg.send(user))
    { // ok %>
        Message sent.<br>
        <br>
	<html:a href='index.jsp'>Ok</a><br><%
    } %>

the following Java source is generated:

    if (msg.send(user))
    { // ok       out.write("\n        Message sent.");
      out.write("<br>\n        ");
      out.write("<br>\n\t");
    [...]

That means that the text "Message sent." is not printed on the HTML-Page. This
is really a source for a lot of more serious problems.
This example used to work in tomcat 4.0 with 4.1.10 it doesn't. Is this problem
already fixed in a develeoper release?

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