JSP or EL expression is not evaluated. I have seen couple of times JSP directly displaying the el-expression on webpages. It may be because of couple reasons 1) Typo in your jsp. 2) Attributes are not set in reqeust or pageContext. 3) You have not enabled EL expression in your JSP or not enabled in [...]

Life cycle of a JSP page consists of two phases, translation phase and execution phase. Every JSP is a Servlet, a JSP page is translated and compiled into servlet and the resulting servlet handles the request, So life cycle of a JSP page largely depends on the Servlet API. JSP engine does the following 7 [...]