unable to access the attribute in any of the container scope

This is a index.jsp file

The custom Tag handler code is as follows

package foo;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter;
import javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.SimpleTagSupport;

public class SelectTagHandler extends SimpleTagSupport{
	
	private List<String>  optionList;
	private String name;
	private String size;
	
	
	public void setOptionList(List<String> optionList) {
		this.optionList = optionList;
	}

public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

public void setSize(String size) {
		this.size = size;
	}

@Override
	public void doTag() throws JspException, IOException {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		PageContext pageContext=(PageContext)getJspContext();
		JspWriter out=pageContext.getOut();
		
		/*out.println("<p>Select the beer characterstics</p>");
		out.println("Color: <br>");
		out.println("<select name='color' size='1' >");
		out.println("<option value='light'>light</option>");
		out.println("<option value='amber'>amber</option>");
		out.println("<option value='brown'>brown</option>");
		out.println("<option value='dark'>dark</option>");
		out.println("</select><br><br>");*/
		
		//GETERETA THE SELECT TAG
		out.print("<select ");
		out.println(String.format(ATTR_TEMPLATE,"name",this.name));
		out.print(String.format(ATTR_TEMPLATE,"size",this.size));
		out.println(">");
		
		//GENERATE THE OPTION TAG
		
		for(Object option:this.optionList)
		{
			String optionTag=String.format(OPTION_TEMPLATE, option.toString());
			out.println(optionTag);
		}
		
		// END HTML SELECT TAG
		
		out.print("</select>");
		
		
	}
	
	private static final String ATTR_TEMPLATE = "%s='%s' ";
	private static final String OPTION_TEMPLATE	= " <option value='%1$s'> %1$s </option>";

}

Then I have a show.jsp Page

The DTD in web.xml is perfectly fine. I get the show.jsp page without any problem. The problem is I am able to access colorList but I am unable to access "color" from select tag that I have created using the custom tag.

It is printing me null for line 5 in show.jsp page. Please help.I want to display the color that I have selected in index.jsp page.

Hi Anil.

I think you have not declared 'color' attribute in request scope, that's why got 'null'.

Try like this in EL