ModelAndView's model value is not displayed - krema2ren/examples GitHub Wiki
In Spring MVC development, developer try to set a value into a model, and display the value in JSP via EL, e.g ${msg}, but it just outputs the result as it is – ${msg}, not the “value” stored in the model. The EL is just not working in JSP, why?
Spring Controller
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController;
public class ABCController extends AbstractController{
@Override
protected ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView("HelloWorldPage");
model.addObject("msg", "hello world");
return model;
}
}JSP page
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<html>
<body>
${msg}
</body>
</html>Solution
Use the standard JSP 2.0 descriptor, defined by w3c schema, as in example web.xml
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
//...
</web-app>Or if using older versions, then enable it in the JSP
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<html>
<head>
<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>
</head>
<body>
${msg}
</body>
</html>