On 03/29/03 17:01:13 -0800 David M. Karr wrote:


Adam> How can I use the Expression Language to reference constants like Adam> Application.CONSTANT Strings and the like?

This has been asked numerous times, probably just as often on the
taglibs-user list as on this list.

The EL references JavaBeans properties, Collections, and Maps.  That's
it.  If you want to reference static variables, you'll have to convert
them to a form that the EL can reference.

One portable strategy would be to build a class that when instantiated,
takes another class, and it uses reflection to store all the static
variables defined in that class into a map, where the keys are the
variable names and the values are the variable values.  You can then
reference that map from the EL.

Sorry about that. I guess I could put all my constants into application scope as well.

Thanks,

A.

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