Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I've been using jstl but never tried installing it my self from ground up.

Here are the steps I did:
1. put the standard.jar and jstl.jar in WEB-INF/lib
2. put tld files in WEB-INF/lib also
3. put tag library entry in web.xml
4. put tag libary entry on top of my jsp

Now my jsp can do <c:out 's but when I put something like <c:out value="${666}"/>
I am seeing ${666} in the html instead of 666. Same thing happens when I use a variable name inside the ${varName} i see it exactly as it was in jsp code

What was I doing wrong?

I don't get any exception from this, only not getting the expected output in my page.

Forgive my newbie question perhaps even dumb. Thanks you in advance