Access Session attribute on jstl

Question

I am trying to access a session attribute from a jsp page which is set and dispatched by a servlet, but I am getting the error message \"jsp:attribute must be the subelement

Answer 1

You don't need the jsp:useBean to set the model if you already have a controller which prepared the model.

Just access it plain by EL:

${Questions.questionPaperID}
${Questions.question}

or by JSTL tag if you'd like to HTML-escape the values or when you're still working on legacy Servlet 2.3 containers or older when EL wasn't supported in template text yet:

See also:

• Our Servlets wiki page

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Unrelated to the problem, the normal practice is by the way to start attribute name with a lowercase, like you do with normal variable names.

session.setAttribute("questions", questions);

and alter EL accordingly to use ${questions}.

Also note that you don't have any JSTL tag in your code. It's all plain JSP.