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Pass parameters to jsp by <%# include file

I need to pass params to included jsp
<%# include file="second.jsp" %>
i need to use it several times in one jsp page, so i need to pass id.
I can't use jsp:include because jsp can't see struts action in this way
Can u help me? Thank you

Set them as attributes on the request object (which makes them visible to the ${var} syntax) before invoking your include.
See How to access a request attribute set by a servlet in JSP? for a similar question.

Servlet response.sendRedirect encoding problems

So I'm redirecting my user using GET in a naive way:
response.sendRedirect("/path/index.jsp?type="+ e.getType()
+"&message="+ e.getMessage());
And this was working fine until I had to send messages, as actual text to be shown to users. The problem is if the message has non-ASCII characters in it. My .jsp files are encoded in UTF-8:
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
So all non-ASCII characters in 'message' gets garbled. I don't want to set my JVM default encoding to UTF-8, so how do I solve this? I tried to use
response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
on the Servlet before redirecting, but it doesn't work. when I try to execute:
out.print(request.getCharacterEncoding());
on my .jsp file it prints 'null'.

The sendRedirect() method doesn't encode the query string for you. You've to do it yourself.
response.sendRedirect("/path/index.jsp?type=" + URLEncoder.encode(e.getType(), "UTF-8")
+ "&message=" + URLEncoder.encode(e.getMessage(), "UTF-8"));
You might want to refactor the boilerplate to an utility method taking a Map or so.
Note that I assume that the server is configured to decode the GET request URI using UTF-8 as well. You didn't tell which one you're using, but in case of for example Tomcat it's a matter of adding URIEncoding="UTF-8" attribute to the <Context> element.
See also:
Unicode - How to get the characters right?
Unrelated to the concrete problem, the language="java" is the default already, just omit it. The contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" is also the default already when using JSP with pageEncoding="UTF-8", just omit it. All you really need is <%# page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>. Note that this does effectively the same as response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"), so that explains why it didn't have effect. The request.getCharacterEncoding() only concerns the POST request body, not the GET request URI, so it is irrelevant in case of GET requests.

Thanks you ... When i am using the response.sendRedirect("/path/index.jsp?type=" + URLEncoder.encode(e.getType(), "UTF-8"), My problem got fixed...
When we are using the response.sendRedirect(): We should encode the URL by the URLEncoder.encode() function then only.. it will be encoded correctly..
Thanks again...

JSP and HTML parser for JAVA

I have been using Jsoup for parsing my HTML files and so far it does a great job. However, it's not able to parse any server tags ( <% ... %> ). I decided to extend it but I cannot find an easy way to extend its Parser and all those private/package level classes (i.e. TreeBuilder, TransitionState ... etc)...
So I started looking at Jericho as it claims it can parse server tags - however, its documentation is so poor that I cannot even get started easily. And seems like its API is not as friendly as what Jsoup provides - it's not that straight forward to extract some nodes and move it around ...
I wonder if anyone has the similar situation before and how you get it solved? In short, I just want to parse JSP files in Java. (Well .. please don't ask me to implement one by myself ;p )

Lastly I get a workaround: put server code block in a HTML comment block so that 1) server code can get executed correctly; 2) Jsoup can process the whole block as a HTML comment node without touching anything inside.
e.g.
<!--
<%# page language="java" errorPage="/error.jsp" pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
<%# page import="com.systemcrossed.groupbuystart.webapp.display.DisplayHelper" %>
<%# page import="com.systemcrossed.groupbuystart.webapp.util.JsonUtil" %>
<%# page import="org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils" %>
<%# include file="/_sys/pages/public/incl/jspCommon.jsp" %>
-->
<!--<%
// Java code here
%>-->
<html>
<head>
... html stuff
It works well for me now! Hope ppl who got the same problem could get some help ! ;)

How To Stop Tomcat/Java Wrapping My Output

I've got a JSP page that I want to return a fragment of HTML. The trouble is that whenever I request the JSP, something is attempting to make the HTML more valid by wrapping <html> tags around it. I don't want it to do this though as it will be used in a variety of other places.
For an example, the following JSP:
<%# taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<script src="${applicationConfig.javascriptUrl}update.js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<p>Wibble</p>
Will result in the following HTML:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head></head><script src="http://fisher.mycompany.com:8080/my-app/includes/js/update.js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<p>Wibble</p></html>
I really don't want those <html> & <head> tags there and would like to get rid of them but have no idea where this is happening to turn it off. Does anyone have any clues?
* Edit *
To give a little more information on what I am trying to achieve. This JSP will check a variety of things and form a piece of HTML. This HTML can then be included into other applications via a web service call.

Servlets can return any content type including javascript and images, not just HTML. Tomcat should not wrap jsps in extraneous tags. I put the snippet you suggested in a jsp, minus the taglib which I don't have set up, and got back exactly the HTML that I put in.
Can you tell us more about your environment? Are you using tomcat? Are you using some kind of framework?

Servlets are HTML factories. They expect to send a valid HTML page down to a browser to be rendered. You can't "get rid of it" without breaking the whole model.
Your original concept of sending a snippet that's "used in a variety of other places" is flawed. You sound like to want to set some data that might be used in other places - that's valid - but I don't see how wrapping it in markup matters.
Only the JSP should be using the marked up data. JSPs are all about display. I'd rethink what you're doing and attack how you want to share the data, not the markup.

One approach it might work,
Create HTML files as you required valid HTML,
and use servlet to returns response, servlet should read HMTL File and return
its contents as String, like XML respones from servlet
hopes thats helps

Arabic characters appears like ??? after adding a Filter to JSP page

When I add a Filter to a particular JSP file, the Arabic characters in the output appears like ???, even when the page encoding is been set to UTF-8 by <% #page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> and <% response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");%>.
The strange thing is, before I added the Filter, the output of all Arabic pages appears with correct encoding. Can someone tell how this problem is caused and how I can solve it?

The filter is either directly or indirectly commiting the response and/or accessing the Writer or OutputStream of the HttpServletResponse which causes that the encoding cannot be changed anymore in the JSP. Fix the code in the filter accordingly. The filter should in any way not be writing anything to the response body. There the JSP (for HTML) or Servlet (for other content) is for.
By the way, you don't need to call <% response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");%>. The <%#page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> already implicitly does that.