November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
12h 17m
English
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 ...