Value="${bean.param}" doesn't work on tomcat 5, WHY ?

Question

Hello,
I have a web application with jsf 1.1. My application has to play some flash movies. Here is my playMovie.jsp :
<h:form id="form"  onkeydown="return sendInfo(event);">
       <h:commandButton id="redirect" action="#{marketTest.whichSessionAction}" style="visibility:hidden;"/>
       <h:outputLabel id="videoName" value="#{marketTest.videoName}" style="visibility:hidden;"/>
       <f:verbatim>
          <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
                  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
                  width="800" height="600" id="market" align="middle">
              <param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
              <param name="movie" value="${marketTest.videoName}" />
              <param name="menu" value="false" />
              <param name="quality" value="high" />
              <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
              <param name="loop" value="false" />
              <embed src="${marketTest.videoName}" menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="800" height="600" name="market" align="middle"
                     loop="false" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/>
         </object>
         <br/>
       </f:verbatim>
        <h:outputText value="#{marketTest.userPosText}"/>
     </h:form>I test it on my computer where I have tomcat 6 and it works very well, but when I put the application on the server where is installed tomcat 5, I have no movies and when I looked at the source page I saw that ${marketTest.videoName} wasn't translated to the real movie name.
Does someone know what can I do ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

EL in template text only works on Servlet 2.4 / JSP 2.0 and newer. So you need at least Tomcat 5.5. Tomcat 5.0 is Servlet 2.3 / JSP 1.2 and Tomcat 6.0 is Servlet 2.5 / JSP 2.1.
To fix this, use JSTL c:out tag. This problem is by the way not related to JSF.