Tomcat 5 and JSP Expression Language (EL)

[mjremijan]

I downloaded the lates 3.x relase of JBoss and I updated to the Tomcat5 iin the examples directory. However, Expression Language support (EL) is not working. So if I have a bean in the PageContext named "person", when I do this...

${person.firstName}

...in the JSP page I do not get the name, "Michael Remijan" I just get that string like the jsp is not being parsed for EL at all?

Anyone else run into this? know how to turn EL parsing on?

[amayingenta]

Are you using the 2.4 schema for WEB-INF/web.xml? The file should start with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<web-app
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

Unless you specify that you're using servlet 2.4 (and therefore JSP2) you don't get EL support in JSPs. I had this problem with Jetty 5 with a webapp I'd forgotten to change.