JSP 2.0 and losing the c:out tags

[Edward Kenworthy]

I'm obviously missing something here.

I'm using a Tomcat, which supports JSP 2.0, but I can't drop the c:out tags, ie if I change <c:out value="${foo.bar}"/> (which works) to ${foo.bar} what happens is my page shows ${foo.bar} in the output: obviously not what I want!

<p>I've amedned the <jsp-version> tag to 2.0 and <taglib-version> to 1.1 in spring.tld but to no avail. What am I missing?

[andrew.daws]

I'm obviously missing something here.

I'm using a Tomcat, which supports JSP 2.0, but I can't drop the c:out tags, ie if I change <c:out value="${foo.bar}"/> (which works) to ${foo.bar} what happens is my page shows ${foo.bar} in the output: obviously not what I want!

<p>I've amedned the <jsp-version> tag to 2.0 and <taglib-version> to 1.1 in spring.tld but to no avail. What am I missing?

What version of the web-app.xml are you using? If you are using the older 2.3 version the EL expressions are ignored by default and you'll need a jsp page directive to set isElIgnored = false.

<%@page isElIgnored="false"%>

Andrew.

[katentim]

Make sure you've got:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http&#58;//java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

instead of:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http&#58;//java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>

[Edward Kenworthy]

<%@page isElIgnored="false"%>

Andrew.

No good, Tomcat complains about it being an invalid page directive.

[Edward Kenworthy]

Make sure you've got:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http&#58;//java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

instead of:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http&#58;//java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>

Tried that but I get:

The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application.

Do I need to update the jstl.jar I'm using?

Would I be better off simply updating the whole of my Spring setup to 1.1.1 (I'm currently on 1.0)?

[Edward Kenworthy]

<%@page isElIgnored="false"%>

Andrew.

No good, Tomcat complains about it being an invalid page directive.

OK looks like a case thing: isELIgnored works, well sort of. Now I get it complaining that:

According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions

<c:forEach items="${model.splashes}" var="splash">

One step forward and one back :-)

[katentim]

You've got the wrong jars by the sound of it. Try downloading jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.1. Drop in the new jstl.jar and standard.jar and it should work.

[Edward Kenworthy]

You've got the wrong jars by the sound of it. Try downloading jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.1. Drop in the new jstl.jar and standard.jar and it should work.

That was exactly right: all working now, thanks to everyone that replied :-)

[jazzle]

this thread helped me too, just wanted to say thanks.