A simple expression like "${active eq 1 and newItem ne 'true'}" is throwing an "javax.el.ELException: Failed to parse the expression [${activeeq1andnewItemne'true'}]" error. This use to work until version 7.0.47. When I replace the ne with a !=, it seems to work fine again. I don't see the underlying libraries jasper.jar and jasper-el.jar have changed between these two versions, and hence don't expect this to be a intentional behavior. Please confirm whether or not this is a bug.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 56029 ***