unable to display jsp - java

I am trying to display dynamic data in jsp. for that I am calling java method inside a jsp using jsp expression. this java method is taking much time but it is returning some value.(I cant reduce the method execution time.)
But my jsp is showing blank.
Can anybody explain what would be the reason and how to resolve.
This code is not written by me But I need to find out the root cause.
my jsp code look like
display.jsp
..... hello......start...
<%= obj.getDynamicData() %>
.....completed .... end

It's likely because you're (ab)using JSP to execute some raw Java code. When an exception is been thrown halfway sending the JSP's output, the remnant of the JSP won't be sent to the browser anymore. But the webserver cannot change the response into an error page with exception details anymore as well and the webbrowser will end up with a halfbaked HTML output which is often displayed as a blank page.
Any uncaught exception is usually logged into server's logfile. You need to dig in the server's logs for the exception and stacktrace so that you can fix the root cause of the problem. Exceptions contain worthful information about the cause of the problem.
A halfbaked HTML page is just an incomplete HTML page which caused the webbrowser not to understand how to display it properly. Rightclick the page in webbrowser and choos View Source. Verify if it is as expected, if necessary with help of the w3 validator.
Further, it may be worth the effort trying in different (better) webbrowsers like Firefox and Chrome. MSIE6/7 is namely known to choke like that when it has received an enormously HTML <table>. It has a poor table rendering engine.
To save yourself from future trouble like this, I suggest to move all that Java code out into a Servlet class so that you can get a more friendly (at least, it's better than digging in server's log files) error page in case of an exception in Java code. See also How to avoid Java code in JSP?

Based on the comments made in BalusC's answer:
When I comment the call to obj.getDynamicData(), jsp page rendered properly.
Either one of two things could be happening:
obj.getDynamicData() is throwing an exception which is not caught and handled
Your servlet container/server may be configured with some sort of "request timeout" that closes the HTTP connection if it takes more than a certain amount of time to process the request, and obj.getDynamicData() takes so long to execute that this timeout is being triggered.
Do you have any sort of logging in your code or JSP that tells you what happens server-side after this method finishes processing? A strong hint that #2 is occuring would be if you continue to see log activity from the thread processing the JSP request (and obj.getDynamicData()) after the browser has stopped waiting for the request / received the blank page.
And to rule out the simple things, are you sure that the server is actually returning an empty response, and not that your browser is showing a blank page because the server returned half an HTML page? Make sure to check View Source, use a tool like Firebug, and/or make the same HTTP request that you do in a browser from a command-line tool like
curl or wget.

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I load the city and state from my database. I used the below code in JSP:
<s:action executeResult="true" name="LoadCities"> </s:action>
It works fine during the initial page loading, but gives me issue when I update the cities in my database. After the the update is successful I redirect this the same page.
But this time I am getting the following exception:
The server side component of the HTTP Monitor has detected a
java.lang.StackOverflowError. This happens when there is an infinite loop in
the web module. Correct the cause of the infinite loop before running
the web module again.
2014-03-18 15:51:02,965 WARN org.apache.struts2.components.Include.warn:49 -
Exception thrown during include of header.jsp javax.servlet.ServletException:
The server side component of the HTTP Monitor has detected a
java.lang.StackOverflowError. This happens when there is an infinite loop in
the web module. Correct the cause of the infinite loop before running
the web module again.
How could I fix this problem?
This happens because you are executing a result that maps to the same JSP used with s:action tag. You should be careful in mapping JSPs when using the s:action tag.
Actually you should reconsider the design your JSPs because this tag is rarely used and a few cases might apply to it. You can prepare the JSP on the server side using the only one action (also it could be chained but is not recommended here), but you can prepare many fragments or tiles in it.
So, you either don't use the s:action tag, or use it with executeResult="false", or choose one of the approaches above to split the design of the JSP pages.
Nowadays Ajax is very popular that can solve many problems with loading data on the client side and updating the content. So you have many possibilities to do that.

java selenium solution required for load page with ajax and submit form

Java - My target is to get complete web page source(html) fill form and submit.
These days web pages are very complex to read b/c they do not get load in one page request call, they execute scripts on page load to fetch data from server and inject in page itself.
Thats where i am having problem, page i am trying to work with having multiple ajax calls to load forms inside and i have to fill the form and submit it pragmatically to get the result.
I tried "selenium" and used HtmlUnitDriver to do all things in background but selenium is failing on Javascript execution after enabling the js.
I want to get all page in one call regardless of if it have ajax calls to load different sections of the page.
One solution i am guessing may be if there is any thing like running server and requesting with url to get page which also maintain the session to submit form or some thing like that.
please feel free to share your thoughts.
I make similar thing in my job. I use HtmlUnit (because it does not rendering -> faster than selenium). A little problematic is to wait when Ajax loading is finished. I poll and look if expected parts of HTML-code are present in the page, which are inserted by ajax.
When I am sure that all needed parts are loaded by ajax, I fill the form and submit it.

Tapestry Web App on Tomcat occasionally spits out garbage

We have a Tapestry-Spring-Hibernate webapp running on Tomcat 6, handing about a few 1000 requests a second. Randomly, for no apparent reason, a page just displays a bunch of random characters on the browser. However, when the page is refreshed, it displays fine. Here is a screen-shot of the source of the garbled page on Chrome:
Here is what I have found so far:
It doesn't seem to be browser specific. I have witnessed this on Chrome and Firefox, but users have also reported this on IE 7 and up.
Load on the server seems to have no correlation to when this happens.
Refreshing the page displays the page normally, as if nothing ever happened.
I don't see anything relevant in the server or the application logs
The content-type tag for the page is <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"/>
There are a couple other webapps deployed on the same container, one being Alfresco, but they don't seem to exhibit this at all.
My question is, has someone run into this before, and if so, can they point me to where I should start looking? Is this a problem with the page having something like the incorrect content-type or the server not being able to handle it for some reason? Or could this be a framework bug in Tapestry or in the application itself? Any pointers are welcome. At this point, I am not sure where the problem is, so I wasn't sure if this goes on ServerFault or stays here.
It is most likely a bug in the application. (Most bugs are ... despite the natural tendency of programmers to blame something else.)
However, could be a bit tricky to track down this problem. I suggest that you start with the standard things:
Look at the server error logs to see if anything strange shows up at the time when one of these "events" occur.
Look at the server access logs to see if you can identify the request that produced the garbage data.
Enable your browser's debugger and see if you can track down the bad request that way.
If you can figure out what the request that produced the bad response was, you'll have more traction in finding the cause.
FWIW - that doesn't look like the result of a character encoding problem. That looks more like binary or compressed data.
Here's one situation that has led me to see a garbled page. On the error page Tapestry sets a response header called X-Tapestry-ErrorMessage. Evidently newlines aren't allowed in headers (at least on some browsers) so if that header has a newline in it, you get the gibberish. One error message we were setting happened to have a trailing new line. I changed it to remove any newlines before setting that header and then the error page showed correctly.
This seems to be related to gzip compression issues in the Tapestry framework (as suggested by #barnyr) and is possibly a regression bug in Tapestry 5.3. To quote Howard from a mailing list thread:
I believe this was a bug where under certain circumstances, a corrupt
GZIP stream of page content would be streamed to the client; this is
fixed in 5.2.6 for sure, but I thought it was fixed in 5.2.5 as well.
The quick fix is to add the following configuration symbol in the contributeApplicationDefaults method of the app's module class:
configuration.add(SymbolConstants.GZIP_COMPRESSION_ENABLED, "false");
This of course disables gzip compression, but might a trade-off worth making.
Possibly related issues:
GZip compression should be disabled if the request is over http 1.0
Is GZIP compression compatible with XmlHttpRequest?

Can I get result of a GWT async call before the page is rendered?

I have a GWT page with a listing (from the datastore) on it. I understand how I can get this listing after the page is loaded, with an async call, but I want to make sure that when the page is loaded initially, it has valid data in it. Otherwise, the page loads most of the way, and then the listing is filled in, which leads to a choppy load, and a longer time the user needs to wait before the page loads.
So, how can I get data from the server into the page when it loads? Is there a way to call the server-side service from the constructor of my UIBinder class? I can't call the actual service implementation, since the client-side code can't reference the server-side code, right?
Surely this can't be a unique need, but I can't seem to find any tips on Google (though I might not be searching the right terms).
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Obviously you'll need to know a little bit about jsp as well.
You could hide your whole page content until the data is loaded to avoid the choppy effect.
But the most user friendly way would be to display a loading message on your page load. Then in the success and failed events of your async call, after the data is bind, hide the loading message.

exception when parsing multipart form data

I am trying to handle a file upload, and I'm using the
com.oreilly.servlet.multipart.MultipartParser class to parse the posted
data (in cos.jar). However, when I call the constructor for MultipartParser, I get this
exception:
java.io.IOException: Corrupt form data: premature ending
at com.oreilly.servlet.multipart.MultipartParser.<init>(MultipartParser.java:166)
at com.oreilly.servlet.multipart.MultipartParser.<init>(MultipartParser.java:94)
Has anyone seen this before? From what I read, this means that the
data ended before it found the boundary it was looking for. How can I
fix this?
I am using cos.jar version 1.0.
Thanks!
http://www.servlets.com/cos/faq.html
This indicates there was a problem
parsing the POST request submitted by
the client. There can be many causes
for the problem:
The client hit the STOP button (not really a problem, but it does cause a
premature ending)
A bug in the web form
A bug in the servlet
A bug in the web server
A bug in the browser
A bug in the com.oreilly.servlet library itself
History has shown the web server to be
the most frequent cause of problems
probably because there are so many
different servers and few vendors
appear to test their binary upload
capability.
First, make sure your client isn't
hitting the STOP button. Then, check
if your problem is already posted on
the "Servlet bugs you need to know
about" resource on this site. If it's
not well known, then you get to be
among the first to learn about it! And
you can share your discovery with us
here!
Second, see if the upload works using
the provided upload.html form and
DemoRequestUploadServlet.java class.
Some people have found bugs in their
form that caused problems. Testing
this combination will see if that's
the case. One user, Duke Takle, found
this exception was caused by a
redirect: I was experiencing the same
"premature ending" as Albert Smith.
What I've found is that the problem
was isolated to I.E. 5.0. The
application that troubled me was doing
a redirect after the construction of a
MultipartRequest. It looks like this
construction went well except on I.E.
5.0 the browser attempted to make the request again and by that time the
ServletInputStream was empty. I've
modified the application to simply
write the needed response instead of
redirecting. This problem was observed
and fixed as described in Tomcat 4.0
and Weblogic 6.1. Other users have
found bugs in their handling servlet
where they call request.getParameter()
instead of
multipartRequest.getParameter(), and
some servers falsely read the input
stream when their getParameter() is
called causing an "unexpected end of
part".
So, the problem was caused by me calling the MultipartParser constructor twice, by accident. It failed the second time, since the request had already been processed.

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