title: JSPs not displaying objects from model in Spring
body: <p>I have what should be an easy issue to solve, but I'm having no luck.</p>
  
  <p>In my servlet-servlet.xml file, I have the following beans (in addition to others):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;bean id="viewResolver"
      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver"&gt;
      &lt;property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" /&gt;
      &lt;property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" /&gt;
      &lt;property name="suffix" value=".jsp" /&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  
  &lt;context:component-scan base-package="com.servlet.web" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My test controller looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.servlet.web;
  
  import java.util.Map;
  
  import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
  import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
  import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
  import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
  
  @Controller
  public class TestController
  {
      protected final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());
  
      @RequestMapping("/test")
       public String methodName(Map&lt;String, Object&gt; map) {
           map.put("someMessage", "some string here");
           return "test";
       }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My jsp view looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;servlet.com&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  ${someMessage}
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, when I view the jsp, I'd expect the value of someMessage (some string here), but I only get the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;servlet.com&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  ${someMessage}
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I crank up the logging, I see that my someMessage object is being place in the model:</p>
  
  <pre><code>22:21:17,425 DEBUG DispatcherServlet:852 - DispatcherServlet with name 'servlet' determining Last-Modified value for [/servlet/access/test]
  22:21:17,426 DEBUG DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping:183 - Mapping [/test] to handler 'com.servlet.web.TestController@762fef'
  22:21:17,426 DEBUG DispatcherServlet:868 - Last-Modified value for [/servlet/access/test] is: -1
  22:21:17,426 DEBUG DispatcherServlet:700 - DispatcherServlet with name 'servlet' processing GET request for [/servlet/access/test]
  22:21:17,427 DEBUG HandlerMethodInvoker:158 - Invoking request handler method: public java.lang.String com.servlet.web.TestController.methodName(java.util.Map)
  22:21:17,427 DEBUG DispatcherServlet:1070 - Rendering view [org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView: name 'test'; URL [/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp]] in DispatcherServlet with name 'servlet'
  22:21:17,427 DEBUG JstlView:328 - Added model object 'someMessage' of type [java.lang.String] to request in view with name 'test'
  22:21:17,428 DEBUG JstlView:237 - Forwarding to resource [/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp] in InternalResourceView 'test'
  22:21:17,429 DEBUG DispatcherServlet:666 - Successfully completed request
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Obviously, my view is mapped correctly, but I can't seem to access model objects added to the request in the view. I've done this type of thing with Spring MVC many times in the past, but I must be missing something obvious here. Any ideas? Thanks.</p>