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
I'm all for the EL... I was impressed when I found that I could do this:
c:forEach var=user items=${bean.userList}
tr
tdc:out value=${user.userId}//td
/tr
/c:forEach
instead of this:
%
ListIterator userList = bean.getUserList();
while (userList.hasNext()) {
User
