<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %> <%@page import="com.dave.ejb.HelloBean"%> <% HelloBean myHello = new HelloBean();%> Test org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /helloWorld.jsp(16,0) According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute value does not accept any expressions org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:407) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:148) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.checkXmlAttributes(Validator.java:1124) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.visit(Validator.java:819) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$CustomTag.accept(Node.java:1507) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2336) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visitBody(Node.java:2386) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator$ValidateVisitor.visit(Validator.java:838) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$CustomTag.accept(Node.java:1507) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2336) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visitBody(Node.java:2386) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Visitor.visit(Node.java:2392) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Root.accept(Node.java:489) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Node$Nodes.visit(Node.java:2336) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator.validate(Validator.java:1737) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:178) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:306) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:273) org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:566) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:308) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:408) com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.executePageToBuildView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:439) com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:114) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144) javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245) org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the JBossWeb/2.0.0.dev logs.