Duplicate code

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

Hi all,
I've these directives at the top of all my JSP pages(I've 5 JSP pages as of now)
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags"%>
<%@taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>

These are caught by the Simian Analyser (identifies duplication in Java, C#, C, C++, COBOL, Ruby, JSP, ASP, HTML, XML, Visual Basic source code and even plain text files)as duplicate lines of code.How do i eliminate this?

Regards,
Srikkanth

[Bear Bibeault]

If youare using a JSP 2 engine, look up the concept of a prelude.

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

Bear,
I'm using a JSP 2 engine only.

[Bear Bibeault]

Then you can add a declaration to the web.xml that will cause a file you specify as a prelude to be automaticvally invoked before each JSP. The file can contain your common declarations.

See the JSP specification for details.

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

Hi Bear,
I added the following element to my web.xml

<jsp-property-group>
<include-prelude>/WEB-INF/jspf/prelude.jspf</include-prelude>
</jsp-property-group>

And my prelude.jspf looks like this

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<%@taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags"%>
<%@taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions"%>

I also removed all the directives from the JSP's but it doesn't work.

P.S This is a Spring application,do i need to change some other thing,?

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

Gosh!!
I missed out the <url-pattern>

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

Hi all,

I changed my web.xml to this,
But still it doesn't work

 <jsp-property-group>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
<include-prelude>/WEB-INF/jspf/prelude.jspf</include-prelude>
</jsp-property-group>

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

I got it working now...Thanks Bear