Newbie Question: EL in attributes for a custom tag not being evaluated??

Greetings; I have a tag that I created to allow integration with my back end. I am using the Jakarta astandard taglibs extensively in the application but I am a bit of a taglib newbie and I have a problem. Namely when I use EL expressions in my tag attributes, they get passed verbatim to the

Re: Newbie Question: EL in attributes for a custom tag not being evaluated??

?threadID=573209messageID=2848229 Let me know the result. Best regards Keshav Shetty Robert Simmons Jr. wrote: Greetings; I have a tag that I created to allow integration with my back end. I am using the Jakarta astandard taglibs extensively in the application but I am a bit of a taglib newbie

Re: Newbie Question: EL in attributes for a custom tag not being evaluated??

. Best regards Keshav Shetty Robert Simmons Jr. wrote: Greetings; I have a tag that I created to allow integration with my back end. I am using the Jakarta astandard taglibs extensively in the application but I am a bit of a taglib newbie and I have a problem. Namely when I use EL expressions

Re: Newbie Question: EL in attributes for a custom tag not being evaluated??

that your EL are not evaluated. I think you have to use %@ page isELIgnored=false% in your jsp. I hope this will solve your problem. You can also refer to http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=573209messageID=2848229 Let me know the result. Best regards Keshav Shetty Robert Simmons Jr. wrote

Re: AW: Newbie Question: EL in attributes for a custom tag not being evaluated??

like you're using javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.SimpleTagSupport, I'll assume your're running on a JSP 2.0 container. I haven't looked closely at the rest of your code yet, but the first thing to do is make sure your web app is using a Servlet 2.4 deployment descriptor (web.xml). Quoting Robert Simmons

Re: AW: AW: Newbie Question: EL in attributes for a custom tag not being evaluated??

is evaluating your EL expressions, your servlet container or your tag? Being lazy, I would almost always opt for the servlet container. Cheers, Olaf -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Robert Simmons Jr. Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 17:00

Re: AW: AW: Newbie Question: EL in attributes for a custom tag not being evaluated??

- Von: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Robert Simmons Jr. Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 17:00 An: taglibs-user@jakarta.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: Newbie Question: EL in attributes for a custom tag not being evaluated?? Addendum: My web.xml is here ... ?xml version=1.0 encoding