org.apache.jasper.JasperException: equal symbol expected

Hi all,
This is my jsp page resultlog.jsp :

it throws this error :

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /resultlog.jsp(6,35) equal symbol expected
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:407)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:88)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseAttribute(Parser.java:198)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseAttributes(Parser.java:148)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parsePageDirective(Parser.java:355)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:488)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseFileDirectives(Parser.java:1930)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:127)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:245)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parseDirectives(ParserController.java:118)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:171)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:317)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:298)
	org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
	org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:564)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:302)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
	org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)

I tried putting log statements in com.a.bean.searchbean class' retrieve method. I am sure the command doesn't even reach to searchbean class. any idea ?

This is failing at the parse JSP step so of course it never gets to the bean. I would pay real close attention to the syntax around line 6, column 35.

Bill

syntax is perfect Bill

Are you sure it doesn't work? If I take out the useBean and use nothing for the HTML body it works fine for me, cut and pasted from the "view plain" link in your code block.