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Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP™ Standard Tag Library
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Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP™ Standard Tag Library

by David M. Geary
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
608 pages
12h 17m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 2. The JSTL Expression Language

Topics in This Chapter

  • Expression Language Overview

  • Expressions

  • Identifiers

  • Operators

  • Type Coercion

  • Literal Values

  • Implicit Objects

  • Method Invocation

  • EL Expressions in Custom Actions

  • Common Mistakes

Although JSTL, as its name implies, provides a set of standard tags, its single most important feature may well be the expression language it defines. That expression language greatly reduces the need for specifying tag attribute values with Java code and significantly simplifies accessing all sorts of application data, including beans, arrays, lists, maps, cookies, request parameters and headers, context initialization parameters, and so on. In fact, the JSTL expression language adds so much value to JSP that it will be ...

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