JSTL c:out not showing the variable's value

Question

I\'m following a tutorial about spring and I\'m supposed to set a variable in a controller in order to be printed within the jsp rendering the request. The code is as follows:

Answer 1

Change this - the pad a library is bad:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>