On 24 Aug 2010, at 18:31, "Brochu, John" <jbro...@arqule.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use a simple EL expression on a JSP ala...
> ${user.firstName}
> Netbeans reports the following error:
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> java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
> javax.el.ExpressionFactory.newInstance()Ljavax/el/ExpressionFactory;
For what resource does it report this error? The JSP?
> I've confirmed that the el-api-jar that came with Tomcat is in the
> Tomcat 6.0.29 lib folder and also in my JDK's jre\lib\ext directory.
Why is it in the latter location?
> I've confirmed that the method ExpressionFactory.newInstance() is not
> included in the ExpressionFactory class included with el-api-jar for
> this version of Tomcat.
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> The Tomcat documents indicate that version 6 should reference JSP 2.0
> not EL 2.2, but ExpressionFactory.newInstance() is not a valid method in
> JSP 2.0 but as far as I can tell it's a recommendation for EL 2.1 and
> 2.2.
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> I am a relatively inexperienced Tomcat user but I've done my best to
> research this issue and I hope I didn't mis-diagnose the problem but I'm
> nearly certain 6.0.29 is now referencing EL 2.1 and not JSP 2.0 - is
> anyone else having the same issue?
What is the version definition in your web.xml?
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