I'm all for the EL... I was impressed when I found that I could do this:
instead of this:
<%
ListIterator userList = bean.getUserList();
while (userList.hasNext()) {
User user = (User)userList.next();
%>
<%=user.getUserId()%>
<%
I'm encountering developers who question the value of the EL, since it often
isn't really much different than using Java as a scripting language. Using
Java as a scripting language in JSP pages is more akin to JavaScript, it
seems, than it is to the EL. See the snippet below for an example of what
