Re: Having trouble with JSTL inside JSF

[Matt Raible]

Unfortunately, JSP EL and JSF EL don't play nicely together.  This will be fixed in JSF 1.2 with the Unified EL. In the meantime, here's a hack that should work: <%-- Step 1: Use a non-displayed dataTable to pull userList into request --%> <h:dataTable var="employee" value="#{employeeBacking.employee}" style="display:none"/>         <c:forEach items="${employeeBacking.employees}" var="emp" varStatus="status">             <c:out value="${status.index}"/><br/>         </c:forEach You could also use an h:dataTable to do the iteration. Hope this helps, Matt On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Rick Reumann wrote: I understand the below won't work as is without the backing bean put in scope with a useBean construct...but I'm more curious why I can not get c:out to evaluate (or really I should also just be able to use ${..} without the c:out since using tomcat5). What I end up getting is the literal text ${status.index} being displayed. I've tried with commons-el.jar and without and the same result:(  <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %> <f:view>     <h:form>         <c:forEach items="${employeeBacking.employees}" var="emp" varStatus="status">             <c:out value="${status.index}"/><br/>         </c:forEach>     </h:form> </f:view>