JSTL fails silently

I am a complete newbie to jstl. I'm working on a forEach loop in a jsp page and the code I want to call is not being called. I have something like this:

<c:forEach items="${Access.allThings}" var="thing">...

This corresponds to the Access.getAllThings() method, but that method is not being called. The scary thing is that no error is being triggered. When I change the jstl code to point to a bogus method, it also fails silently.

Is this how jstl deals with errors - silently ignoring them?

[525 byte] By [lowellka] at [2007-10-3 1:31:22]