I'm sorry, in my first post the first snippet was not accurate, I have to use <%=sLocaleLang%>, ${sLocaleLang} doesn't seem to work since it's a regular
String var that I create like this:
Thank you for your post/idea(s) I will consider them as well.
At the end of the day I wish there was the (exact)JSF equivalent for the JSP code, but who knows, perhaps there's a good reason for it not being there or it's there but I don't know about it.