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I am a Spring MVC newbie, and I am trying to call up a JSP in my Spring 3.1 MVC application, and I'm getting an error message instead. Can anyone help me? Here is the error message when I call up GuestBook.jsp.

HTTP Status 500 -

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'comment' available as request attribute
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:541)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:429)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

root cause

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'comment' available as request attribute
	org.springframework.web.servlet.support.BindStatus.<init>(BindStatus.java:141)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.getBindStatus(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:174)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.getPropertyPath(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:194)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.LabelTag.autogenerateFor(LabelTag.java:129)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.LabelTag.resolveFor(LabelTag.java:119)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.LabelTag.writeTagContent(LabelTag.java:89)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractFormTag.doStartTagInternal(AbstractFormTag.java:102)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.RequestContextAwareTag.doStartTag(RequestContextAwareTag.java:79)
	org.apache.jsp.GuestBook_jsp._jspx_meth_form_005flabel_005f0(GuestBook_jsp.java:271)
	org.apache.jsp.GuestBook_jsp._jspx_meth_form_005fform_005f0(GuestBook_jsp.java:216)
	org.apache.jsp.GuestBook_jsp._jspService(GuestBook_jsp.java:127)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:393)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

Here is GuestBook.jsp.

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="myTag" uri="commentsTag"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Granada High School Class of 1986 Comment Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
p {
	text-align: justify;
}

h1 {
	text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
	<h1>Granada High School Class of 1986 Guest Book</h1>
	<%@ include file="menu.jsp"%><br>
	<b><font color="red"><c:out value='${confirmation}' /></font></b>
	<c:remove var="confirmation" scope="session" />
	<p>This page is a place where you can share memories from high
		school, what you're doing these days, comments about this web site
		(good or bad), etc. The comments will appear at the bottom of the
		page.</p>
	<form:form method="post" action="GuestBook.jsp" modelAttribute="comment">
		<table>
 			<tr>
 				<td><form:label path="name">Name</form:label></td>
 				<td><form:input path="name" /></td>
 			</tr>
 			<tr>
 				<td><form:label path="message">Message</form:label></td>
 				<td><form:textarea path="message" rows="10" cols="50" /></td>
 			</tr>
 			<tr>
 				<td><input type="submit" value="Submit comment" /></td>
 				<td> </td>
 			</tr>
 		</table>
	</form:form>
	<br>
	<myTag:comments />
	<%@ include file="footer.jsp"%>
</body>
</html>

This is web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
	<display-name>Granada High School Class of 1986</display-name>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ghs1986</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        </servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ghs1986</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

<listener>
		<listener-class>com.configuration.ConfigurationListener</listener-class>
	</listener>
	<listener>
    	<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
	</listener>
	
	<welcome-file-list>
		<welcome-file>home.jsp</welcome-file>
	</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

This is applicationContext.xml.

This is ghs1986-servlet.xml

This is com.controller.CommentController.

package com.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

import com.dao.CommentDAO;
import com.model.Comment;

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/GuestBook")
public class CommentController {
	Comment comment;
	
	public Comment getComment() {
		return comment;
	}

public void setComment(Comment comment) {
		this.comment = comment;
	}

@RequestMapping(value = "/GuestBook", method = RequestMethod.POST)
	public String addComment(@ModelAttribute("comment") Comment comment, BindingResult result) {
		CommentDAO commentDAO = new CommentDAO();
		java.util.Date today = new java.util.Date();
		java.sql.Date date = new java.sql.Date(today.getTime());
		comment.setDate(date);

if (commentDAO.writeComment(comment) == true) {
			return "redirect:GuestBook.jsp";
		}
		
		return "redirect:Oops.jsp";
	}
	
	@RequestMapping("/showComments")
	public ModelAndView showComments() {
		return new ModelAndView("/GuestBook.jsp", "comment", new Comment());
	}
}

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OK, you have some old style stuff, some new stuff and neither is connected to each other.

First you have

<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.controller" />

in your applicationContext.xml. But they should be in your ghs1986-servlet.xml

That -servlet.xml is for all your Web Layer beans, including your Controllers.

You should not be declaring your controller as a <bean> since your Controller has all the annotations in it and mvc:annotation-driven will find all of them and map your URLs to your controller methods via the @RequestMapping annotations.

in the applicationContext.xml should be all your beans that are in your middle tier. The business layers and daos.

Check out this thread from this past week to explain applicationContext.xml versus xxxxx-servlet.xml
https://coderanch.com/t/586814/Spring/Conflict-mvc-annotation-driven

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When I move <mvc:annotation-driven /> to ghs1986-servlet.xml, I get a message from Eclipse that says, "The prefix 'mvc' for element 'mvc:annotation-driven' is not bound." How do I fix that?

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You need to add the mvc namespace to the top of the xml file. You can look at your other configuration file for an example. Also STS will do this for you if you open it with the spring editor there is a namespaces tab, where you can just add the mvc namespace.

Also as Mark already stated you should not be creating the Comment controller bean at all but on top of that you are injecting a Comment bean. This is a Singleton, I assume you don't want every request sharing the same comment.

You should also remove this block of code from your controller

Once you get through all of the fixes you have been suggested so far we can start debugging your other issue. That error generally means that the binding result is not immediately following a method attribute in the paramter list or you are trying to access a property on the method attribute in your jsp improperly or other times it does not exist at all (or is mispelled)

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I just moved the mvc line as well as the context:component line over, but now both lines are giving me basically the same error:

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Why in one you havespring-beans-3.0.xsd and in the other you have spring-beans-2.0.xsd? Hopefully you do not have multiple versions of Spring on the classpath as well.

replace whatever you have at the top of the servlet xml with what you have at the top of your application.xml

i.e.

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Okay, I have fixed the schemaLocation error. I guess I need to stop cutting and pasting from tutorials without reading them first. I still have the original problem, though.

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Maybe you can re-post what you have so we are looking at the latest after you have made the suggested corrections.

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Error in browser window:

HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

root cause

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'comment' available as request attribute
	org.springframework.web.servlet.support.BindStatus.<init>(BindStatus.java:141)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.getBindStatus(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:174)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.getPropertyPath(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:194)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.getName(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:160)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.autogenerateId(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:147)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.resolveId(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:138)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.writeDefaultAttributes(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:122)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractHtmlElementTag.writeDefaultAttributes(AbstractHtmlElementTag.java:408)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.InputTag.writeTagContent(InputTag.java:140)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractFormTag.doStartTagInternal(AbstractFormTag.java:102)
	org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.RequestContextAwareTag.doStartTag(RequestContextAwareTag.java:79)
	org.apache.jsp.GuestBook_jsp._jspx_meth_form_005finput_005f0(GuestBook_jsp.java:262)
	org.apache.jsp.GuestBook_jsp._jspx_meth_form_005fform_005f0(GuestBook_jsp.java:214)
	org.apache.jsp.GuestBook_jsp._jspService(GuestBook_jsp.java:124)
	org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:393)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

GuestBook.jsp

h1 {
	text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
	<h1>Granada High School Class of 1986 Guest Book</h1>
	<%@ include file="menu.jsp"%><br>
	<b><font color="red"><c:out value='${confirmation}' /></font></b>
	<c:remove var="confirmation" scope="session" />
	<p>This page is a place where you can share memories from high
		school, what you're doing these days, comments about this web site
		(good or bad), etc. The comments will appear at the bottom of the
		page.</p>
	<form:form method="post" action="GuestBook.jsp" modelAttribute="comment">
		<table>
			<tr>
				<td>Name:</td>
				<td><form:input path="name" /></td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td>Message:</td>
				<td><form:textarea path="message" rows="10" cols="50" /></td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td><input type="submit" value="Submit comment" /></td>
				<td> </td>
			</tr>
		</table>
	</form:form>
	<br>
	<myTag:comments />
	<%@ include file="footer.jsp"%>
</body>
</html>

CommentController.java

applicationContext.xml

ghs1986-servlet.xml

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I am going to review the basics of Spring and then come back to this problem another time. Thanks to all who tried to help me, and my apologies to whoever comes across this thread looking for help.

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@Controller
@RequestMapping("/GuestBook.jsp")
@SessionAttributes("comment")
public class CommentController extends SimpleFormController {

Looking at this you are trying to use two totally different Spring MVC approaches. One the old style where you extend a Controller class and the newer style of using annotations. I'd stick with annotations.

Also,

<bean name="comment" class="com.model.Comment" />

domain objects and stateful objects are never defined as beans.

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