Re: EL expressions not being evaluated..

maya wrote:
> oh brother.. this means I would have to upgrade to sdk 1.5 from 1.4 
> (Tomcat 5.5 requires 1.5..  it might not be a bad idea, though, b/c I 
> also want to start playing with NetBeans..  but have been reluctant to 
> upgrade everything...:)

TC 5.5 should work just fine with JDK 1.4. Make sure to download the 
apache-tomcat-[version]-compat.zip file and install it after the base distro.

> ok, many thanks to everyone for your help..
> 
> 
> 
> Rashmi Rubdi wrote:
> 
>> Set up a fresh install of the latest Tomcat on the side with the 
>> correct web.xml entry, and put a test jsp page in it with a simple EL 
>> expression and see if it evaluates.      I have apache-tomcat-5.5.12
>>      and a different set of jar files under 
>> apache-tomcat-5.5.12\common\lib :      commons-el.jar
>> jasper-compiler-jdt.jar
>> jasper-compiler.jar
>> jasper-runtime.jar
>> jsp-api.jar
>> jstl.jar
>> naming-factory-dbcp.jar
>> naming-factory.jar
>> naming-resources.jar
>> serializer.jar
>> servlet-api.jar
>> standard.jar
>> xalan.jar
>>
>> maya <[email protected]> wrote:
>>   Kris Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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">
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you're using a Servlet 2.3 web.xml, then EL will be ignored by 
>>> default.
>>>
>>
>> thank you very much.. I put what you posted in my web.xml (in lieu of
>> what I had there previously (and what I have in all web.xml's in 
>> Tomcat), namely
>>
>>
>> PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
>> "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
>>
>>
>> ....
>>
>> I put the code you posted in both the web.xml for the particular webapp
>> and in conf/web.xml.. but EL expressions are still not evaluating..
>> this is how a JSP with EL prints in the browser (IE & FF..)
>>
>> Request Method: ${pageContext.request.method}
>> Request Protocol: ${pageContext.request.protocol}
>> Context Path: ${pageContext.request.contextPath}
>> ....
>> Remote Host: ${pageContext.request.remoteHost}
>> Secure: ${pageContext.request.secure}
>> Cookies: ${c.name}: ${c.value}
>> Headers: ${h.key}: ${value}
>>
>>
>> thanks again....

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