JSTL with Struts
I need to display an update screen of User instance. In the action a sotre the user in request:
request.setAttribute("user", user);
I forward to a jsp
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
....
<html:form action="/usecase/manageUser/update.do" method="POST" ...>
...
<html:text property="firstName" value="${user.firstName}"/>
...
</html:form>
But in the browser I have "${user.firstName}" displayed in spite of the real first name.
Any idean ?
[564 byte] By [
3ninbaa] at [2007-11-27 5:48:28]
# 1
Well there are two possible answers here.
1 - You are using a JSP1.2(eg Tomcat 4) container which doesn't understand EL
2 - You are using a JSP2.0(eg Tomcat 5) container but EL evaluation is disabled
As a quick fix, try putting this on your page
<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>
If that fixes it, see this post for full details on how to configure JSTL:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=629437&tstart=0
If it doesn't work, then you have a JSP1.2 container, and if you want to use EL with the Struts tags, you have to use the specific struts-el version of the taglibrary.
