Re: JSTL using EL does not display EL values

From:
"phillip.s.powell@gmail.com" <phillip.s.powell@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Fri, 5 Sep 2008 07:43:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<07742719-d3ea-4078-8aa9-14916e4a6e4c@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 4, 7:05 pm, Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesb...@gmail.com> wrote:

phillip.s.pow...@gmail.com wrote:

<pre>
<code>

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

<%!
    String titleText = MyProperties.getValue(MyProperties.CONFIG,
"COMMON_VALUE");
 %>

<c:import url="/header.jsp" context="/common" >
   <c:param name="title" value="${titleText}" />
</c:import>

This is a test to show <b><%= titleText %></b> = <b>${titleText}</b=

</code>
</pre>

However, when I run this script, I see only the following:

This is a test to show User Registration =

Am I missing an important step?


Yes. EL doesn't access local Java variables, only objects stored on one
of the scopes (request, session, page application). First example I
found of what to do (for page scope):

http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/jsp/el.xtp

I don't see the value of titleText


that's because I forgot an important step:

<%
   String titleText = MyProperties.getValue(MyProperties.CONFIG,
"COMMON_VALUE");
   pageContext.setAttribute("titleText", titleText);
%>

<c:import url="/header.jsp" context="/common" >
  <c:param name="title" value="${pageScope.titleText}" />
</c:import>

when I use EL to attempt to display it. The web module's web.xml
deployment descriptor indicates I am using version 2.4 of the XSD as
well as that I am using JSP 2.0 with JSTL 1.2. Deploying onto
WebSphere 6.0.

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