doubt in EL

[raja ram]

Hi,

I have the following code in the servlet

List ol=new ArrayList();
ol.add("hi");
ol.add("this");
RequestDispatcher rd=request.getRequestDispatcher("/jsp/testEL.jsp");
rd.forward(request,response);

and below code in the testEL.jsp

Values from the List are :${list["0"]} ${list["1"]}

but instead of getting the "hi this" as the out put i get "Values from the List are :${list["0"]} ${list["1"]}"
as the output the EL is not getting evaluated.

Is there any specific setup that i need to do for this to work.

Thanks

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

please

add this in your servlet

request.setAttribute("list_name",list);

and in jsp

${list_name["0"]} or ${list_name[0]}
thanks & regards,
seetharaman

[Christophe Verré]

Or without touching the JSP :

 request.setAttribute("list",list);

Also make sure that you have configured everything properly. Check this FAQ.
[ May 12, 2008: Message edited by: Christophe Verre ]

[raja ram]

Hi,

Sorry I have already put the code in my servlet i didnt show it here
request.setAttribute("list",ol);

Thanks

[Christophe Verré]

Ok then All left to do is to check the FAQ I have posted above. Make sure your web.xml is declared correctly.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Hi rajaram,

add isELIgnored="false"(but it is default behaviour) in your page directory of jsp...whether you put isELIgnored="true" like anything?

thanks & regards,
seetharaman

[raja ram]

Hi,

I have added following entry in the web.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">


<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 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

Thanks

[Christophe Verré]

Remove the DOCTYPE and do an exact copy/paste of the one written here.

[raja ram]

Hi,

I deleted the DOC Type and did a exact copy paste of the specified contents like below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


<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 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

i tried it with both the tags specified in that link but still it didnt work
I am using tomcat Apache Tomcat/5.0.28 what could be the problem.

can any body give me a working web.xml file for EL
Thanks
[ May 12, 2008: Message edited by: raja ram ]

[Christophe Verré]

Remove also the first line Leave only the web-app tag.

[raja ram]

Yes I removed the first line and kept only <web-app> even then no results.

Thanks

[Christophe Verré]

Can you post the web.xml you now have ? And also please tell us where you put web.xml.

One more thing. You are using Tomcat 5.0.x. I recommend you to use Tomcat 5.5.x instead (although they are supposed to support the same spec...)

[raja ram]

Hi,
My web.xml file contains the following

  
<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 <a href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"</a>
     version="2.4">
    
     <context-param>
           <param-name>testing</param-name>
           <param-value>hi</param-value>
     </context-param>
     
     <welcome-file-list>
              <welcome-file>test.jsp</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list> 
 
     <servlet>
         <servlet-name>eltest</servlet-name>
         <servlet-class>com.scwcd.TestEl</servlet-class>
     </servlet>      
          
     <servlet-mapping>
         <servlet-name>eltest</servlet-name>
         <url-pattern>/testel/*</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>    
</web-app>

and web.xml file is present in this Path "C:\tomcat\webapps\learn\WEB-INF\web.xml"

Thanks

[Nishal Dsouza]

Can you tell me which container and which version are you using?

[raja ram]

Apache Tomcat/5.0.28

[Garlapati Ravi]

do you have this line in you JSP ?

<%@ page isELIgnored="false"%>

[S Sravs]

check if you have proper jar files
standard.jar and jstl.jar

Regards
Sravanthi

[Nishal Dsouza]

install tomcat 5.5.26 or higher version it should work

[Nishal Dsouza]

This is because the container you are using does not support EL because it implements lower versions of JSP 2.0 specification.

[raja ram]

Hi,

I have installed Apache Tomcat/5.5.26 now and tried with the same code but i am getting this exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext.getVariableResolver()Ljavax/servlet/jsp/el/VariableResolver;
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:841)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:774)
org.apache.jsp.jsp.testEL_jsp._jspService(testEL_jsp.java:69)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:331)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
com.scwcd.TestEl.doGet(TestEl.java:27)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

I have also copied jstl.jar and standard.jar files to my WEB-INF\lib folder
Thanks

[S Sravs]

even tough Tommcat has inbuilt el-api.jar file and jasper-el.jar files add into your lib path and restart
hope this solves your problem

Reagards
Sravanthi

[John Pearson]

I couldn't see any obvious problem, so I wrote a quick test app to try it, using your servlet code, jsp, and web.xml. It all worked fine! it produced the output:

 Values from the List are :hi this   

Since the exception seems to be coming from VariableResolver, I'd check your JSP code very carefully to make sure you don't have any typos that might be causing it to choke when it tries to evaluate "${list["0"]} ${list["1"]}".

[Garlapati Ravi]

what is the java version you are using ? is it below 1.4 ?

[John Stone]

Also delete \apache-tomcat-6.0.14\work\Catalina\localhost\YOUR_WEB_APP.
I had the same problem, read the faq, tried multiple web.xml's and all I got was ${1+1}, I deleted classes from tomcat's work dir and it started to work :-).

EDIT: I suggest to add this to FAQ.
[ May 14, 2008: Message edited by: John Stone ]

[S Sravs]

Hi Sourabh Gandhi,
thanks for the link

Regards
Sravanthi
preparing for wcd 1.5

[raja ram]

Hi,

Any solution to this problem all this time i am thinking that there is a problem with my code only but even the JSTL exapmles that come along with the tomcat is also giving the same error. what could be the reason
I am using
Apache Tomcat/5.5.26 conatiner and JDK 1.5

Thanks

[Ash More']

hi raja ram,
have you tried what Vijaya said a few posts back? have you added el-api.jar file to your class-path. i think that file is available in tomcat 6 in the lib directory.(or if you have jboss available to you, its in the C:\JBoss\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\lib directory ). Also add this to the classpath: servlet-api.jar and jsp-api.jar

Restart tomcat and try out the tomcat examples.

[raja ram]

Hi,

The problem is resolved i copied jsp-api.jar and servlet-api.jar in the
C:\tomcat\common\endorsed directory and restart the server it works fine now.

Thanks for all the replies