JSP - Unable to Compile

[DaNuGai]

I am getting the following error.

The code of method _jspService(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) is exceeding the 65535 bytes limit

I have a form in which I three <SELECT> drop down menu. For each of those <SELECT> menu, I have 5500+ <OPTIONS>. Since all three <SELECT> Menu uses the same <OPTIONS>, I an include file and attached in my JSP.

I understand why I am getting the error but I wanted to know if there is a way around it.

 

[DaNuGai]

I tried
<jsp:include page="options.inc" flush="true"/>
instead of
<%@ include file="options.inc" %>
and this time I didn't get any error.

Can anyone explain the difference and what does that flush="true" mean?

 

[mqudsi]

I was just about to recommend including it as an HTML file instead.

This might help: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=650976&amp;messageID=3828351

If you don't flush (default is flush=false), the compile buffer will overflow. When you enable flushing, old data is flushed out before adding new one.