Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

I have a simple HTML page with a form on it that sends the information to a JSP page that stores the form data in a JSP session. I created a simple form that asks for the user's name, sends it to the JSP page, stores that in a session, then sends it to another JSP page which displays the name. This worked fine.

However, I added another input box to my form that asks for the user's age to do the same steps as outlined above. This does not work, and I'm not sure why. Here's the code from my HTML page:

<form method=post action="savename.jsp">
What's your name? 
<input type=text name=username size=20 />
<p />
What's your age?
<input type=text name=age size=20 />
<p />
<input type=submit />

Here's the code from my JSP page, savename.jsp (later on in the JSP page it links to another page, but that is not relevant):

<%
String name = request.getParameter("username");
String age = request.getParamater("age");
session.setAttribute("theName", name);
session.setAttribute("theAge", age);
%>

Finally, here is the error message from Tomcat 6.0.9:

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

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

An error occurred at line: 3 in the jsp file: /savename.jsp
The method getParamater(String) is undefined for the type HttpServletRequest
1: <%
2: String name = request.getParameter("username");
3: String age = request.getParamater("age");
4: session.setAttribute("theName", name);
5: session.setAttribute("theAge", age);
6: %>


Stacktrace:
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:85)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:415)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:308)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:273)
	org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:566)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:308)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

I do not understand the error, as it works fine when I simply try to retrieve "theName", but breaks when I try to retrieve both.

What is it I am missing here?

Thanks,
Dan