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.

I find it interesting almost all of the big content sites have AdSense/Overture/Kanoodle/AdBrite links on them. Wouldn't it be more profitable to sell direct advertising to major advertisers? If I...

I haven't been involved with Internet advertising since the mid nineties. I'm a little ignorant on the ad business these days, but I know things have 'evolved' since then. I know most sites, like...

Not sure how many of you know this, but I feel it's my duty to point out pud's the "CEO" of AdBrite. I put this in quotes because it's just too much irony for me to write with a straight face. ...

How about a forum for web application security? I'd be interested in discussing security issues related to writing web-based applications, as well as security concerns regarding existing web...

www.corejsf.com is a good place.

I don't want to discourage you, but JSF is a hard technology to master if you're writing big applications (although the basics of it aren't too bad to learn).
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When you reference ${nickname} from JSTL, what the JSP is doing is looking in either the request object for a nickname attribute or the session object [i.e., request.getAttribute("nickname")]. So if...