Originally Posted by bpk
This is a Tomcat-specific issue with the Apache JSTL implementation. If you don't use a 2.4 web.xml, the EL expressions don't get evaluated in the JSP.
Be sure to never tell that to the 30 or so Tomcat instances running with our customers.
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.