JavaServer Pages (JSP) and JSTL - el-ignored / Tomcat 5.5.4

Sometimes Tomcat 5.5 does not evaluate EL expressions in JSPs rather you get the EL expression as the output. This can be because you have web.xml as version 2.3 compliant in which case you can change it to the newer 2.4 syntax. It can also be solved by including a snippet of code in all your JSPs. More : http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=613520&messageID=3394683