Tomcat 5 giving error on commented out JSP page

[Ali Ekber]

I am running Tomcat 5.5 on Linux, and it started acting very wierd. I have a commented out piece of Java code somewhere in my JSP, and I am getting an error.

The actual error is an SQL exception, but the code is commented out, so it shouldn't be executed. This is very strange. Any ideas?

[Bear Bibeault]

Perhaps it's not as commented out as you think it is?

[IM Mahesh]

Syntax for JSP comments is: <% comments %>
If you are using the tag <!-- --> to comment out your java code then it will not work because it is html syntax.

[IM Mahesh]

Sorry for a little type mistake.
jsp comments tag is: <%-- comments --%> and not <% comments %> which i mentioned in previous reply.