embedded scriptlet not able to access Date object

True to bad style, I'm writing a piece of JSP right now where there's a bit of actual code scriptlet embedded with <% ... %> tags now.

In the jsp above that scriptlet I'm working with 2 objects of java.util.Date, called inDate and outDate. When I'm trying to access the different objects er values or whatever within them, I'm using standard inDate.minutes and etc. to attempt to do tests on them. Is there something special that I need to know about accessing this kind of object from within an embedded scriptlet? I'm getting a server log error of
An error occurred at line: 169 in the jsp file: /reports.jsp
inDate.hours cannot be resolved or is not a field

When I access that section now; debugging code above the scriptlet has proven that inDate & outDate are getting their proper values in the JSP code, though.

Here's a little bit of the code; I'm pretty sure this issue is just something that I don't understand about either the scope of these objects (declared at the top of the same JSP page) or how much access an embedded scriptlet has to variables declared in JSP:



I would be very grateful if anybody could help point me in the right direction on this issue.

Damon Getsman
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Duhh, don't mind me. I was trying to access the members of that object the same way that I did in JSP.

Depreciated getHours, getMinutes, etc, worked just fine. Can anybody tell me the non-depreciated way to do this? The Calendar object stuff on the java.sun.com website confused me a bit.

Hi,

It is pretty easy to use the Calendar object

you just instantiate an object from the Calendar class using
Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
then you can get the hour as follows;
int hour=cal.get(Calendar.HOUR);
int monthDay=cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH );

Note that the calendar is created with the current date and time by default
if you want to set the calendar to a specific date and time use
cal.setTime(Date mySpecificDate);

I hope that was helpful and please tell me if you have any queries