JSPs not displaying objects from model in Spring

Question

I have what should be an easy issue to solve, but I\'m having no luck.

In my servlet-servlet.xml file, I have the following beans (in addition to others):

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem, and after comparing 2 similar apps (one with EL working fine and the other not), noticed that the problem on my tomcat 7 depended on the webapp version specified in the web.xml of the application.

The same jsp using Web App 2.3 displays ${someMessage}. (BTW, this is what you get using maven archetype:generate with archetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp).

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The same jsp using Web App 2.4 displays the model object properly:

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Hope that it helps!