Re: Weblogic 9.0 and JSTL 1.1 ${variable} expansion

If you're using JSP documents (XML format), then it looks like there was a 
bug in 9.0 that's been fixed in 9.1 that *might* be an issue. See CR224130 at:

http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs91/issues/known_resolved.html#1056681

Otherwise, it's difficult to guess at the problem from the information 
you've provided. The only suggestion I can make is to be sure you haven't 
unintentionally disabled EL evaluation.

One other suggestion I'd make is for all your developers to get on the same 
platform, preferably the same one that will be used in production. That way 
everyone will see the same set of issues and will likely encounter them 
earlier rather than later in the development cycle.

Luca Passani wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm involved in a "distributed" project. I develop a web app using 
> Tomcat5, JSTL 1.1, Struts, Java 1.5 (but compiling for 1.4) and when I 
> am done, someone somewhere else re-builds my app for Weblogic 9.0 and 
> integrates with the back-end.
> Unfortunately, things are not going 100% smooth.
> First we had to figure out that web.xml for servlets 2.4 is not just a 
> change in the header (DTD vs schema), but also the syntax has changed in 
> subtle ways (taglib tags need to go inside a jsp-config tag with 2.4). 
> To add to that, Tomcat5 does not complain but weblogic does! (as an 
> aside, which tools do you guy use to validate the web.xml in accordance 
> with the 2.4 schema?)
> 
> But let me get to my question. In my Struts action I do something like:
> 
> request.setAttribute("title", "Hi there!");
> 
> and in tomcat5, as expected, I am able to read back that value in my 
> JSPs as simply as:
> 
> <a href="#"  title="${title}">
> 
> Alas, in Weblogic they are seeing "${title}" not "Hi There" !
> 
> as I said, the web.xml is correctly set (and correctly recognized) as 
> 2.4. We know for sure that WL 9 is supposed to handle 2.4 and JSP 2.0
> 
> http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs90/notes/new.html#1225583
> 
> any idea of what we may be missing?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Luca

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