title: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: java.lang.String.substring(java.lang.Long, java.lang.Long)
body: <p>I have a jsp code working fine on one of the machines. But when i copied to another machine I am getting this no such method found exception. I am new to spring. Can some one explain what am i missing. </p>
  
  <p>Following is the lines of code that is causing exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;c:set var="rawDate" value="${result.getDate()}"/&gt;
  &lt;c:set var="rawTime" value="${result.getTime()}"/&gt;
  &lt;td id="formattedDate" class="center"&gt;&lt;c:out value="${rawDate.substring(4,6)}"/&gt;/&lt;c:out value="${rawDate.substring(6,8)}"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td id="formattedTime" class="center"&gt;&lt;c:out value="${result.getTime().substring(0,2)}"/&gt;:&lt;c:out value="${result.getTime().substring(2,4)}"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the stack trace</p>
  
  <pre><code>May 9, 2012 9:35:56 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher invoke
  SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
   (, )
     at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1605)
     at javax.el.BeanELResolver.invoke(BeanELResolver.java:405)
     at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.invoke(CompositeELResolver.java:147)
     at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.getValue(AstValue.java:159)
     at org.apache.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:189)
     at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.proprietaryEvaluate(PageContextImpl.java:989)
     at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.tables.WatchAllTable_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fout_005f8(WatchAllTable_jsp.java:1132)
     at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.tables.WatchAllTable_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fforEach_005f0(WatchAllTable_jsp.java:412)
     at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.tables.WatchAllTable_jsp._jspService(WatchAllTable_jsp.java:127)
     at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:417)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:391)
     at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:306)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:402)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:329)
     at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:238)
     at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:262)
     at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1180)
     at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:950)
     at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:852)
     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:882)
     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:789)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:306)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:240)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:161)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
     at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
     at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:550)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
     at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:380)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:243)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:188)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:166)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:288)
     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
  SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [spring] in context with path [/watch] threw     exception [An exception occurred processing JSP page /WEB-INF/jsp/tables/WatchAllTable.jsp at     line 77
  
  74:                        &lt;c:set var="rawDate" value="${result.getDate()}"/&gt;
  75:                        &lt;c:set var="rawTime" value="${result.getTime()}"/&gt;
  76:                        
  77:                        &lt;td id="formattedDate" class="center"&gt;&lt;c:out value="${rawDate.substring(4,6)}"/&gt;/&lt;c:out value="${rawDate.substring(6,8)}"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  78:                        &lt;td id="formattedTime" class="center"&gt;&lt;c:out value="${result.getTime().substring(0,2)}"/&gt;:&lt;c:out value="${result.getTime().substring(2,4)}"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  79:                        &lt;td id="documentGroup" class="hidden"&gt;&lt;c:out value="${curDocGroup}"/&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the link which looks like solution to this issue but i didnt understand what they are saying .</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?108175-SpEL-does-not-recognize-functions&amp;s=e077b42fd45ae3a3177a01c90339893c" rel="nofollow">http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?108175-SpEL-does-not-recognize-functions&amp;s=e077b42fd45ae3a3177a01c90339893c</a></p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>