You shouldn't be creating objects using JSTL.
In a well written, scriptless
JSP application, JSTL and EL are only needed to work with existing scoped variables.
If you want to see a very simple example of a JSP that uses a bean that was bound to scope by a
servlet, look at the SimpleMVC example in our
codebarn.
http://www.javaranch.com/codebarn/codebarn-servlets-simplemvc.jsp