EL not working in forEach

I am using a forEach to iterate through an array. The EL of the forEach var is not working.

Here is a code snippet:

<c:forEach var="param" items="${branchSettings.parameters}">

<tr>

<td>${param.category}</td>

<td>${param.name}</td>

<td>${param.value}</td>

</tr>

</c:forEach>

When I change it to this it works but I really want to use EL.

<c:forEach var="param" items="${branchSettings.parameters}">

<jsp:useBean id="param" class="com.aaa.pos.config.Parameter"/>

<tr>

<td><%= param.getCategory() %></td>

<td><%= param.getName() %></td>

<td><%= param.getValue() %></td>

</tr>

</c:forEach>

I am using Tomcat 5 with jdk 5

[1182 byte] By [aaa-mana] at [2007-11-26 16:20:06]