Is EL in jsp supported at all?

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:33:55 -0800 

I've been trying to test 6.4.3 for jsp and am starting to think that OWB does 
not support web beans in EL in jsp pages at all.  I have a jsp like this...


<%...@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>

<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
    <link href="./css/default.css" rel="stylesheet"
          type="text/css"/>
    <title>Expression test</title>
</head>

<body>
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>${expressionBean}</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>${expressionBean.value == expressionBean.value}</td>
    </tr>
</table>
</body>

</html>

with an ExpressionBean...

@Named
public class ExpressionBean {

    private Counter counter;

    @Inject
    public void initialize(Counter counter) {
        counter.create();
        this.counter = counter;
    }

    public String getValue() {
        return "foo";
    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void destroy() {
        counter.destroy();
    }

    public Counter getCounter() {
        return counter;
    }

    public String getStatus() {
        return counter.getStatus();
    }

    public String toString() {
        return "ExpressionBean: status:" + getStatus();
    }
}


and an app-scoped counter.  The output from my jsp seem to indicate that EL is 
not finding or creating an ExpressionBean.

Am I doing something obviously stupid?  Is there an example of EL + OWB + jsp 
working?

thanks
david jencks

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