problem in displaying dropdown menu items in jsp with jstl

see my controller code

protected Map referenceData(HttpServletRequest request){
Map refDataMap=new HashMap();
IEmsDelegator delegator = (IEmsDelegator) getDelegator(BeanConstants.EMS_DELEGATOR);
List expenseTypeList=delegator.getExpenseTypes();
refDataMap.put(EmsConstants.EXPENSE_TYPES_LIST,expenseTypeList);
return refDataMap;
}

where
EmsConstants.EXPENSE_TYPES_LIST is
public static final String EXPENSE_TYPES_LIST="expTypes";

and part of jsp relevent to this topic is

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="spring" uri="/spring"%>
<HTML>

.
.
.
.
..

<SELECTsize="1" >
<OPTION value="-1">
SELECT...
</OPTION>
<c:forEach items="${expTypes}" var="expenseType">
<option value="${expenseType.expenseTypeId}">${expenseType.expenseTypeName}</option> </c:forEach>
</SELECT>

part of tld file

<taglib 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-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">

<description>JSTL 1.1 core library</description>
<display-name>JSTL core</display-name>
<tlib-version>1.1</tlib-version>
<short-name>c</short-name>
<uri>http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core</uri>

my problem
when i want to render the jsp page my page does not render actual o/p

but gives ${expenseType.expenseTypeName}

please help to solve this problem

If EL expressions are not being evaluated, you may have a set up problem. See the JSP FAQ for information on properly setting up a JSP 2.0 web application.

Thanks Bear Bibeault

i face roblem only in displaying dropdown menu

but my normal

<inputtype="text"
name="<c

ut value="${status.expression}"/>"
value="<c

ut value="${status.value}"/>"

tag works fine and does not have any problem

i face only problem in dropdoown menu

Please help meto solve this problem

What container and version? What is the declaration at the top of your web.xml?

Did you check to see if your list is getting populated? And also is the forEach getting executed? I mean if you give something like this, is it working?

<c:forEach items="${expTypes}" var="expenseType">
Hello
</c:forEach>

Thanks for taking time for me

first reply to Bear Bibeault

i am testing this application on both

jboss-4.0.2 and Apache Tomcat 5.0

declaration at the top of my web.xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

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


<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/spring</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/spring.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>

<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/c.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

part of my c.tld file is

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

<taglib 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-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">

<description>JSTL 1.1 core library</description>
<display-name>JSTL core</display-name>
<tlib-version>1.1</tlib-version>
<short-name>c</short-name>
<uri>http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core</uri>

now reply to sushma sree

my List contains 4 record of Expense Type

as u said i tried
and it gives me 4 hello printed on my jsp page

it will be great help to me if anyone solve this issue
[ April 04, 2006: Message edited by: ganesh pol ]

Your web.xml declaration is wrong. In order to enable the EL outside of the JSTL tags (like <c

ut>) you must declare your web.xml using the Servets 2.4 XML Schema.

See the JSP FAQ for details.

bear is right
you have to use

<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">

one more thing

is map is set as attribute

pageContext.setAttribute("map", yourmap);

see The JSTL Expression Language > Common Mistakes
http://www.phptr.com/articles/article.asp?p=30946&seqNum=10&rl=1

Thanks
Bear Bibeault and srilatha kareddy

i follow as u said and now it works fine and it displays correct values