Re: EL expressions not being evaluated..

maya wrote:
> again, thank you all very much.. as mentioned, I have Tomcat 5.0.27, 
> which comes with the following (as specified in release-notes.txt that 
> comes with it):
> 
> * commons-collections*.jar (Commons Collections 2.1 or later)
> * commons-dbcp.jar (Commons DBCP 1.1 or later)
> * commons-el.jar (Commons Expression Language 1.0)
> * commons-logging-api.jar (Commons Logging API 1.0.3 or later)
> * commons-pool.jar (Commons Pool 1.1 or later)
> * jasper-compiler.jar (Jasper 2 Compiler)
> * jasper-runtime.jar (Jasper 2 Runtime)
> * jsp-api.jar (JSP 2.0 API)
> * commons-el.jar (JSP 2.0 Expression Language)
> * naming-common.jar (JNDI Context implementation)
> * naming-factory.jar (JNDI object factories for J2EE ENC support)
> * naming-resources.jar (JNDI DirContext implementations)
> * servlet-api.jar (Servlet 2.4 API)
> 
> this means my EL expressions should evaluate, right?

Don't worry about that stuff, focus on your app. The first thing to do is 
to make sure you're using a Servlet 2.4 web.xml. It should look something 
like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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">

   ...

</web-app>

If you're using a Servlet 2.3 web.xml, then EL will be ignored by default.

> thank you again..
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andrés Florit wrote:
> 
>> With JSP 2.0 you can use EL in all the page because it is part of the
>> specification. Whit JSP 1.2 you can only use it with JSTL tags and 
>> customs
>> tags (this last one I'm not very sure). EL is evaluated before the JSP
>> is converted to a servlet, so I don't think you can use it in a servlet.
>> Here's a good link about the differences between JSP 1.2 and 2.0.
>>
>> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/05/jsp.html
>>
>> Andrés
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/12/06, maya <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> thank you all very much for your responses..  will have to check
>>> everything you guys say tonight at home (off the top of my head, I know
>>> I have Tomcat 5.0.27 and, as far as I know, JSP 2.0; Servlet 2.4 specif
>>> (this I know for sure, I looked it up when downloaded JSTL..)
>>>
>>> one of the respondents seemed to be implying you can only use EL with
>>> JSTL, I don't suppose I understood right, since I assume it can also be
>>> used with custom tags and beans..
>>>
>>> again, thank you very much..
>>>
>>> -m
>>>
>>>
>>> Rashmi Rubdi wrote:
>>> > Behind the scenes JSPs are Servlets .
>>> >
>>> >   I had the same problem as maya is facing and after following the
>>> instructions here:
>>> http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-taglibs/FrequentlyAskedQuestions , and
>>> making sure that there was no version mismatch between the .tld files 
>>> and
>>> the URIs and getting the correct versions of the JAR files solved the
>>> problem.
>>> >
>>> >   -Rashmi
>>> >
>>> > Andrés Florit <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >   Expression Language (EL) is part of the JSP 2.0 specification. If 
>>> I'm
>>> not
>>> > wrong it has anything to do with servlets. If you use JSP 1.2 you have
>>> to
>>> > import the JSTL libraries. I think that Tomcat 5 implemnts JSP 2.0.
>>> > Sorry my english.
>>> >
>>> > Andrés
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 9/12/06, Rahul Akolkar wrote:
>>> >> On 9/11/06, maya wrote:
>>> >>> I can't get my EL expressions to evaluate to what they're supposed
>>> to...
>>> >>> they print verbatim, in both IE and FF, like for example:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Server Name: ${pageContext.request.serverName}
>>> >>> Server Port: ${pageContext.request.serverPort}
>>> >>> Remote Address: ${pageContext.request.remoteAddr}
>>> >>> Remote Host: ${pageContext.request.remoteHost}
>>> >>>
>>> >>> or this in a bean:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Name retrieved from JavaBean has the value of: ${param.name}.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> anything else I've tried to do w/EL it always prints like this in
>>> >>> browser.. why is this.. (running on Tomcat 5, everything pretty
>>> >>> standard..) thank you..
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-taglibs/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>>> >>
>>> >> -Rahul

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