Execute Struts before custom JSP tags? Mixing tags is causing problems.

Hello,

I'm iterating through a list of objects in using struts and it works fine, but is clearly fighting with the custom JSP tags on the server, as it won't evaluate in the order that I'd like. I almost want it to execute the struts first then the JSP tags.

To explain by showing code. The following works totally fine:

<s:iterator value="monitors" status="itStatus">
     <s:property value="monitors[itStatus.index].name"/>
</s:iterator>

Now if I want to do the same in my JSP tags it fails:

<cues:menuitem tooltip="Releases - Monitors" onclick="#" caption="Releases">
        <s:iterator value="monitors" status="itStatus">
            <cues:menuitem tooltip='<s:property value="monitors[itStatus.index].name"/>'  caption="<s:property value="monitors[itStatus.index].name"/>"/>
        </s:iterator>
</cues:menuitem>

My work around for getting the values to display is to use this approach:
<cues:menuitem tooltip="Releases - Monitors" onclick="#" caption="Releases">
        <s:iterator value="monitors" status="itStatus">
            <s:set name="name" value="monitors[#itStatus.index].name" var="name"/>
            <cues:menuitem tooltip='${name}'  caption="${name}"/>
        </s:iterator>
</cues:menuitem>

The above  executes fine, but the cues tags don't evaluate properly, because it doesn't wait until the iterator is finished. If I change this to a <% for.... %> loop it works fine.

Any thoughts?

Jared