Jsp showing error

Question

I am getting the error in my eclipse mars. It won't show any pop up for that these errors. And I am able to successfully run even after the errors, though in this particular case that that is also a issue.

I had to run my server again and again, it's not picking up changes.
Why these red squiggly line.
I am getting below error when trying to run this.

Error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: 

An error occurred at line: 13 in the jsp file: /HelloWorld.jsp
Date cannot be resolved to a type
10: 
11: <%
12: 
13: Date today = new java.util.Date();
14: 
15: String text = "Today's date is: " + today.toString();
16: %>

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '15 at 14:10

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You need to import date-class or fully qualify both.

Either put this at the top of your page:

<%@ page import="java.util.Date" %>
....
Date today = new Date();

or:

java.util.Date today = new java.util.Date();

answered Nov 09 '15 at 14:10

Denis Lukenich

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 09 '15 at 14:10

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You can't import Date class in your JSP page : Place following code at the top place of jsp page.

<%@page import="java.util.Date"%>

answered Nov 09 '15 at 14:10

Bhuwan Prasad Upadhyay

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 09 '15 at 14:18

Your missing an import. Without that import Java/JSP "don't know" Date. There are to ways to deal with this error:

1.- Import Date on the top of your page, to tell your programm "where to find Date":

<%@page import="java.util.Date"%>

2.- Or you could easily tell him it right in the line where you declaring the variable:

java.util.Date yourDate= new java.util.Date();

Note that if your using the second way it won't work for other variables than yourDate.

Jsp showing error

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