Hi I am new to jsp and using Expression language.I am using Eclipse Galileo with version 2.5 and tomcat6 server . I just want to ask that my simple expression language is not printing the vale like if i write ${1>2} which suppose to give false but it is displaying ${1>2} only when it renders the page. But when i am using <c:out value="${1>2}"/> it is printing false correctly. I think there is an issue with tag library. Please kindly suggest me the reason for this i am giving a sample code for this so that you can understand where i am going wrong:-
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Expression Language Example</title>
</head>
<body>
Is 1 greater than 2 using cout :<c:out value="${1>2}"/>
Is 1 greater than 2 without using cout: ${1>2}
</body>
</html>
Update as per the answers, here is more information:
I am showing my web.xml how it looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/jsp" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>ScriptLessJsp</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<description></description>
<display-name>ElServlet</display-name>
<servlet-name>ElServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.servlet.El.ElServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ElServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/ElServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet>
<description></description>
<display-name>Collections</display-name>
<servlet-name>Collections</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.servlet.El.Collections</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Collections</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/go</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
And in my lib folder I have added only jstl.jar so that i can make use of <c:out> tag to display but my EL for tmplate text is not working.