Tomcat 5.5 JSP EL evaluation: what?

05-03-2006

I'm working my way through the Sun J2EE tutorial, but I'm stuck on the
first web app.

I'm running the sample web app "hello1" on a stock tomcat 5.5
installation. The app theoretically demonstrates some simple JSTL
features and EL evaluation; instead, it demonstrates nothing at all.

My hello1.war contains:
/index.jsp
/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
/WEB-INF/web.xml
/WEB-INF/c.tld # from commons-taglib
/WEB-INF/fn.tld # ditto
/WEB-INF/lib/jstl.jar # the same
/WEB-INF/lib/standard.jar # likewise

index.jsp:
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/function" prefix="fn" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Short, Simple Complete Compilable Code</title>
</head>
<body>
${param.username}
</body>
</html>

and web.xml:
<web-app>
<display-name>hello1</display-name>
</web-app>

(This originally had a number of fields from the example web.xml; it
didn't work with those in place, either.)

From the tutorial and the JSTL docs, requesting
http://..../hello1/?username=Pennywise should print "Pennywise" on the
page. Instead, it's printing the expression itself: ${param.username}

Why?

And where is this documented? I tried the tomcat docs, the JSP
documentation, and google, with very little luck.

-Owen

05-03-2006

Owen Jacobson wrote:
> index.jsp:
> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/function" prefix="fn" %>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Short, Simple Complete Compilable Code</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> ${param.username}
> </body>
> </html>
....
> From the tutorial and the JSTL docs, requesting
> http://..../hello1/?username=Pennywise should print "Pennywise" on the
> page. Instead, it's printing the expression itself: ${param.username}
>
> Why?

Try changing the ${param.username} to <c

ut value="${param.username}"
/>
because the way your jsp looks now, you're just asking it to print the
string "${param.username}", but by calling the c

ut tag magic things
will happen.
Check http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs...doc/JSTL4.html
for further information.

/Steen

05-03-2006

On Wed, 03 May 2006 00:10:43 -0700, steen wrote:

>
> Owen Jacobson wrote:
>> index.jsp:
>> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
>> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/function" prefix="fn" %>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>Short, Simple Complete Compilable Code</title>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>> ${param.username}
>> </body>
>> </html>
> ...
>> From the tutorial and the JSTL docs, requesting
>> http://..../hello1/?username=Pennywise should print "Pennywise" on the
>> page. Instead, it's printing the expression itself: ${param.username}
>>
>> Why?
>
> Try changing the ${param.username} to <c

ut value="${param.username}"
> />
> because the way your jsp looks now, you're just asking it to print the
> string "${param.username}", but by calling the c

ut tag magic things
> will happen.
> Check http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs...doc/JSTL4.html
> for further information.

According to the JSP spec that's not actually necessary in JSP 2.0.
The JSTL docs seem to confirm that; c

ut makes it possible to work with
EL in JSP prior to JSP 2.0.

I think.

Version soup in here.

Anyways, point is, that didn't work either. What *did* work is using a
set of attributes on <web-app> including version="2.4"; the example as
downloaded has version="2.5".

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