title: Expression Language in JSP not working
body: <p>I am new to JSP and using Expression language. I am using Eclipse Galileo with version 2.5 and Tomcat 6 server . I just want to ask that my simple Expression Language is not printing the vale like if i write <code>${1&gt;2}</code> which suppose to give false but it is displaying  <code>${1&gt;2}</code> only when it renders the page. But when i am using <code>&lt;c:out value="${1&gt;2}"/&gt;</code> it is printing false correctly. I think there is an issue with tag library. Please kindly suggest me the reason for this i am giving a sample code for this so that you can understand where I am going wrong:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
      pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%&gt;
  &lt;%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %&gt;
  
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                                   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  
  
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Expression Language Example&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  Is 1 greater than 2 using cout  :&lt;c:out value="${1&gt;2}"/&gt;
  
  Is 1 greater than 2 without using cout: ${1&gt;2}
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong> as per the answers, here is more information:</p>
  
  <p>I am showing my <code>web.xml</code> how it looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/jsp" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5"&gt;
    &lt;display-name&gt;ScriptLessJsp&lt;/display-name&gt;
    &lt;welcome-file-list&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.html&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.htm&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.jsp&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.html&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.htm&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;default.jsp&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
    &lt;/welcome-file-list&gt;
  
    &lt;servlet&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;&lt;/description&gt;
      &lt;display-name&gt;ElServlet&lt;/display-name&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;ElServlet&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;servlet-class&gt;com.servlet.El.ElServlet&lt;/servlet-class&gt;
    &lt;/servlet&gt;
    &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;ElServlet&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/ElServlet&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
    &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
    &lt;servlet&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;&lt;/description&gt;
      &lt;display-name&gt;Collections&lt;/display-name&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;Collections&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;servlet-class&gt;com.servlet.El.Collections&lt;/servlet-class&gt;
    &lt;/servlet&gt;
    &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;Collections&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/go&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
    &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  &lt;/web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And in my lib folder I have added only <code>jstl.jar</code> so that i can make use of <code>&lt;c:out&gt;</code> tag to display but my EL for template text is not working.  </p>