simple error due to use of double quotes in a jsp file

Question

I have the following line of code in a JSP File in my web app that is giving an error:

Answer 1

I case Jasper JSP validation phase is used during project build.

Since Tomcat 8 there is a new attribute strictQuoteEscaping for Ant task and a switch -no-strictQuoteEscaping for running org.apache.jasper.JspC from command line.