title: Showing the current date using JSTL formatDate tag
body: <p>I am trying to show the current date in my JSP page using JSTL. below is the code I am using.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;jsp:useBean id="now" class="java.util.Date" scope="request" /&gt;
  &lt;fmt:formatDate value="${now}" pattern="MM.dd.yyyy" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the above code is not producing any results? Am I missing anything here or is there any better approach for this? I am using JSTL 1.1.</p>