need to invoke EL expression.

Hi all,

I am using Struts 1.3.8 and want to use EL expression in my Jsp page.
The application is using a bean "code.AddressForm" and action "code.AddressAction" which are defined in struts-config.xml file. The problem is that when i want to use EL it displays the expression itself. I dont know what is missing, but struts bean tag displays the bean property.

please help.

Jsp code:

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
 
<html:html>
<head>
    <title><bean:message key="welcome.title"/></title>
    <html:base/>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
 
<html:form action="/Address">
 
    <html:errors/>
 
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td align="center" colspan="2"><font size="4">Please
            Enter the following details:</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td align="right">Name:</td>
            <td align="left">
                ${addressForm["name"] }, <bean:write name="addressForm" property="name"/>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td align="right">Address:</td>
            <td align="left">
                ${addressForm.address }
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td align="right">Email address:</td>
            <td align="left">
                ${param.emailAddress }
            </td>
        </tr>
 
    </table>
</html:form>
 
</body>
</html:html>

The output is:

The lib folder contains the following jar files:
jstl.jar
struts-core-1.3.8.jar
struts-taglib-1.3.8.jar
struts-tiles-1.3.8.jar
antlr-2.7.2.jar
oro-2.0.8.jar

thanks in advance..

vanchin

I suspect the problem here is that you've declared your project as a Servlet 1.3 project instead of a Servlet 1.4 project. You can verify whether or not this is the case by looking at the DTD reference in your web.xml file.

In a Servlet 1.3 project, EL expressions are not allowed except inside JSTL tags such as <c

ut>.

you can try:

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" isELIgnore="false" %>