JSP logic separation

[Sverre Moe]

I was thinking about separating my JSP logic into a header.jsp where I have:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="application/xhtml+xml; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>

Also I was thinking about adding the following code:

<%@ page import="no.bbs.bkad.testklient.online.Util" %>
<% String firstPartOfURI = Util.getFirstPartOfURI(request); %>

The latter is something all my JSP file have. It gives them the first part of the URI to use later in the code /firstPartofURI/newpage

However. I can' get this to work. Because the variable firstPartOfURI is in anoter JSP file which I include I cannot use it in my JSP because it does not know this variable.

Is there a way to work around this?

Also another thing:
In my webpage I have a service selector form which is loaded on startup. When a service is selected that form is shown. And that form is including the service selection form in its JSP. So I run into the problem with duplicate headers. The new form page has its header and when including the service selector form it has its header. This does not go well. Anyone know a way around this?[LIST]

[Ben Souther]

If you have a single variable that should be common to all JSPs, you should bind it to application scope.

[Sverre Moe]

I solved my first problem by replacing <jsp:include..> with <%@ include..>
From from request-time to translation-time..

That way I could access the firstPartOfURI in the page which included it.

What do you mean by binding to application scope?
[ July 11, 2007: Message edited by: Sverre Moe ]

[Pravin Jain]

binding to application is setting attribute for the application scope.
i.e. something like.
application.setAttribute("firstPartOfURI", Util.getFirstPartOfURI(request));