Failure to evaluate ternary operators in Expression Language(EL) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBWEB-208 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBWEB-208 Project: JBoss Web Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: Tomcat Affects Versions: JBossWeb-2.1.10.GA Environment: RHEL 6 Workstation, JBoss EAP 5.1.0 Reporter: Musharraf Hussain Assignee: Remy Maucherat Fix For: JBossWeb-2.1.4.GA This issue is regarding a support case [1] where JBoss throws the below given error while evaluating ternary operators in Expression Language(EL) written in JSP. I found this issue there in EAP 5.1.1 (JBoss Web 2.1.3.GA) as well but interestingly this issue does not occur in EAP 4.3.x (JBoss Web 2.0.0 GA CP05). I have attached a sample test case, which once you deploy and hit the application like this (http://localhost:8080/TestWS) it throws the following ERROR. 2011-07-27 12:34:51,197 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/TestWS].[jsp]] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception org.apache.el.parser.ParseException: Encountered " <ILLEGAL_CHARACTER> "\' "" at line 1, column 16. Was expecting one of: <INTEGER_LITERAL> ... <FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ... <STRING_LITERAL> ... "true" ... "false" ... "null" ... "(" ... ")" ... "!" ... "not" ... "empty" ... "-" ... <IDENTIFIER> ... at org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.generateParseException(ELParser.java:2142) at org.apache.el.parser.ELParser.jj_consume_token(ELParser.java:2024) ...... As per the bug opened for the same issue faced in Apache Tomcat, as mentioned in the following URL [2], the issue has been fixed and the fix has been included in Apache Tomcat version 6.0.23 onwards. There exists a JIRA [3] where for similar issue we are rebasing to Version 6.0.21 , hence I am opening this fresh JIRA so that a patch could be provided for the existing users of EAP 5.x and also this change could be included into EAP 5.1.2 as well. [1] https://c.na7.visual.force.com/apex/Case_View?id=500A0000007BrQwIAK&s... [2] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48112 [3] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPAPP-6382 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira