The examples are tested on Tomcat 6.0. For Tomcat 5.5, I believe that you need to have the Sun EL JAR (el-api.jar)on the classpath. cheers Michael View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121554#4121554 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4121554