Method not found? It should be ... syntax appears correct?

[Martin Doyle]

I'm getting this method ...

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile [snip].java:238:
Method getParameterMap() not found in interface
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.

.... with this source code ...

java.util.Map parametersMap = request.getParameterMap();

.... using Tomcat 3.3

I was initially trying to get a HashMap out, but wasn't sure whether
it was failing to find the method because I was specifying an invalid
return type? I thought overloading only happened with params though
and not return types. Anyway, this is the exact return type listed in
the API for the version of J2EE that I believe is accurate for this
version of Tomcat (J2EE 1.3), so I'm utterly stumped. Can anyone
suggest what's going wrong?

[Martin Doyle]

ma****@doyle.com (Martin Doyle) wrote in message news:<a8**************************@posting.google. com>...

I'm getting this [ERROR] ...

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile [snip].java:238:
Method getParameterMap() not found in interface
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.

And I've found out why ... Tomcat 3.3 doesn't use J2EE 1.3, it uses
Servlets 2.2 and I eventually found a Javadoc on the Java site.
getParameterMap() is not valid in Servlets 2.2 unfortunately, so I had
to do a getParameterNames() and run through them, getting the
parameter value each time ... awkward, but the same result near
enough.