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

This is an E xpression L anguage issue. Your ${} is not being resolved. This can happen for a number of reasons. One, and the most likely, is that your web.xml is declaring Servlet 2.3 and under. You'll have to specify 2.4+. Now, obviously, your Servlet container must also support that higher version.

Answer 2

Change this - the pad a library is bad:

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