JSTL : not working with JSP 2.0

[chandra konduru]

Hi
I was trying to run JSP 2.0 tag sample. here are the tag and jsp files.

wrapper.tag
----------
<%@ tag body-content="scriptless" %>
<%@ attribute name="a" required="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="b" required="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="c" required="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="d" required="false" %>
<p> Header
<p> Attributes - ${a}, ${b}, ${c}</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>${a}</td>
<td>${b}</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> Footer
---------- and my JSP is
main.jsp
------------
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="tags" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

<tags:wrapper a="1" b="2" c="3" >
<p> Wrapped Content
</p>
</tags:wrapper>

----
web.xml contents
<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_3.xsd"
version="2.3">


when I ran main.jsp I am getting
Attributes - ${a}, ${b}, ${c}
instead of Attributes - 1,2,3

the values are not being evaluated. Any suggestion/help would be appreciated. I used version 2.4 also. but i am getting this error
"According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute value does not accept any expressions" when using 2.4.

Any idea??
Thanks
-Chandra K

[Bear Bibeault]

I'm confused. What does this have to do with the JSTL?

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[Bear Bibeault]

Your issue is that your web app is incorrectly declared as a servlets 2.3 web app. See the JSP FAQ to see how to correctly declare your web app as Servlets 2.4 (which enables the EL).

[chandra konduru]

Thanks guys. it worked. There is a problem with web-app format. yes it has nothing to do with JSTL.my bad. anyway thanks once again for your advice.

[Ben Souther]

You know that custom tags that write yourself are not the same thing as JSTL, right?