jstl and c:out value not being evaluated
843836May 28 2004 — edited Jun 1 2004I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm going crazy trying to figure this
out. I've done a search through groups.google.com to no avail. If
this belongs somewhere else, please let me know.
I have been teaching myself struts. I've been using the logic tags
and wanted to move to jstl core tags.
My configuration is as follows:
Tomcat 5.0.14
I downloaded the Jakarta-taglibs-standard-current.zip file (standard not the standard 1.0). I
extracted jstl.jar and standard.jar and placed these in my
APPLICATION//WEB-INF/lib directory. I then extracted the c.tld and
placed it in APPLICATION/WEB-INF. My relevant part of my web.xml
looks as follows:
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/c.tld</taglib-location>
<taglib>
I then try to display a simple jsp file to test this.
APPLICATION/Test.jsp
Test.jsp:
<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head><title>JSP Page</title></head>
<body>
<c:out value="${2 + 2}" />
</body>
</html>
The result I get on the page is:
${2 + 2}
I'll assume I am doing something fundamentally wrong here as I am only 2 months into Java and servlet technology. Why isn't the value in the c:out being evaluated and printing 4 instead of the
literal "${2 + 2}"? The Tomcat configuration seems fine, as the struts' logic tags are working fine.