c:forEach problem

Hi

i m new to jsp and jstl. i m using tomcat 5.5, and standard.jar

my taglib declaration is
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>

the code that is in problem is
<c:forEach var="prod" items="${model.products}">
    ${prod.products} <i>${prod.price}</i><br/><br/>
</c:forEach>

the model declaration is as follows
        String now = new Date().toString();
        Map myModel = new HashMap();
        myModel.put("now", now);
        myModel.put("products", productManager.getProducts());

productManager.getProducts() will return a List

i get exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/jsp/hello.jsp(12,0) According to
TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any
expressions

where have i gone wrong ?

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