Spring jsp page not evaluated

Question

I have an interesting problem with Spring 3.1.0. JSP pages are not having their EL evaluated. I\'ve debugged the view resolution process and JstlView is being used and the J

Answer 1

Absolutely a case of "looked at it for too long".

The spring servlet needs to be the default servlet. ie mapped to / and not /*.

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>        
</servlet-mapping>