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depolitic · Sep 5, 2004, 04:38 AM

Hi - I am building a blog in the JSP and JSTL and EL and Tomcat and MySQL. I think I am going to need a little help. So I have started this thread, to lump all my questions into. Thus saving on threads all on the same basic subject.

So far I have installed Tomcat 5, with MySQL 4.x.x, and the Jakarta Core Tags version 2, all seems to be functioning. I am using Intellij IDEA 4.5 as my IDE. Now all seems to be running fine, no errors, Intellij IDEA is configured and sees what it needs, and look happy.

Problem 01 - My EL expressions in my <c:out value="${some Expression}" /> are not being evaluated, they look right but the expressions are just printed out on the screen like this ${some Expression}. Now it is not a problem with my tags because my <c:choose> tags and others work fine. So it looks my core tags are working, but why are my expressions not being executed?

Here is the page any suggestions?

Code:

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/c.tld" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/sql.tld" prefix="sql" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/fmt.tld" prefix="fmt" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/x.tld" prefix="x" %>

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Search Result</title>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="white">

      <p>Create a <a href="newCreate.jsp">new Blog</a></p>

  <c:choose>
    <c:when test="${not empty listQuery.rows}">
      Sorry, no existing blogs were found.
    </c:when>
    <c:otherwise>
       
      The following soapbox articles were found:

        <table border="1">
            <th>ID</th>
            <th>Date Created</th>
            <th>Date Last Modified</th>
            <th>Article Status</th>
            <th>Article Title</th>
            <th>Article Summery</th>
            <th>Edit</th>
            <th>Delete</th>

            <c:forEach items="${listQuery.rows}" var="row">
            <tr>
            <td><c:out value="${row.id}" /></td>
            <td><c:out value="${row.dateCreated}" /></td>
            <td><c:out value="${row.dateLastModified}" /></td>
            <td><c:out value="${row.articleStatus}" /></td>
            <td><c:out value="${row.articleTitle}" /></td>
            <td><c:out value="${row.articleSummery}" /></td>
            <td><a href="currentQuery.jsp?id=<c:out value="${row.id}" />">Edit</a></td>
            <td><a href="delete.jsp?id=<c:out value="${row.id}" />">Delete</a></td>
            </tr>
            </c:forEach>
        </table>

    </c:otherwise>
  </c:choose>

  </body>
</html>