Your web.xml file looks fine for JSP 2.0. If you are having problems accessing EL on specific pages try adding the following to the top of the individual JSP page:
<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>
Since you are using JSP 2.0 I think that EL is ignored by default so you can can add the following to your web.xml to enable it for all pages:
*.jsp
true
true
