In a JSP 2.0 container, such as Tomcat 5, my EL expressions in template text and action element attributes are not evaluated, they are used as-is instead. For instance:
${now.time}
is rendered as: ${now.time}
What have I missed? |
| Answer: The EL evaluation is disabled for a web application with a Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2 deployment descriptor (web.xml file) for backwards compatibility reasons. You need to update the <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 web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4"> ... </web-app> As an alternative, you can enable EL evaluation of a page-by-page basis with the |
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