Yet another EL post (I apologize in advance)

Question

I've tried searching the forums before asking this question, but haven't found anything to solve my problem. Initially, the issue is the same many others have: EL expressions are being ignored. So I added in the page directive, and this was the response:
1 error(s) found in /grucom/jsp/Alice/siteDev/doRetrieve.jsp
(1) The page has invalid attribute(s): [isELIgnored]
I've provided the code below. I don't have the authority to modify the web.xml file (I'm just a temp here) and we have so many system administrators in this organization that I have no idea who to contact about fixing it (or, for that matter, if they WOULD). Is there a workaround for using EL? Anything? Ultimately I just want to be able to send variable strings instead of literals to my custom tags.
<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>
<%@ page errorPage="error.jsp" %>
<%@ taglib uri="../../../../WEB-INF/classes/gcos/taglib/email.tld" prefix="email" %>
<%
     String errmsg = "";
     String email = request.getParameter("email");
     if (email.equals(null)) errmsg += "<LI>Please enter your email address (login)";
     if (errmsg.equals("")) { %>
          <email:send to="${param.email}" subject="Your GCOS Password" content="password" />
     <%     response.sendRedirect("index.jsp");
     else {
          session.setAttribute("errmsg",errmsg);
          response.sendRedirect("pwdRetrieve.jsp");
%>

Answer 1

Are you using JRun3 or JRun4?
I have used JRun4 previously, and it worked fine for custom tags, and the JSTL 1.0, though EL expressions ARE limited to the JSTL tags.
To get the full information on your server you can include this in a JSP page
ServerInfo = <%= application.getServerInfo() %> <br>
Servlet version = <%=application.getMajorVersion() %>.<%= application.getMinorVersion() %>That should tell you exactly what version you have, and what you can do.
This is one of the few times I might advocate putting a taglib entry in the web.xml
<taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/gcos/email</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/classes/gcos/taglib/email.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>This sets up a mapping between the taglib uri (which is just a string), and the tld file on disk.
The container SHOULD pick this information up automatially with an entry in web.xml, but this might give it a kick in the right direction if it is having trouble.
Good luck,
evnafets