On 21 Mar 2003, Dave Newton wrote:
> Hmm, that's true about the well-formed comment. If one of the goals
> (WAS one of the goals?) was to remove scriptlets, though, isn't the
> ${foo} just some syntactic sugar around a <%=..%>?
>
> Honestly, I wasn't trying to start anything :D
No, these are all good questions. One of the goals was indeed to remove
scriptlets. EL expressions improve upon them in two important ways:
- As I said before, the syntax is compatible with well-formed XML,
and it's shorter and more convenient for page authors.
- Expressions, unlike Java, are limited in function; they are only
used to retrieve values from a handful of specific locations, not
to call open-ended Java code.
--
Shawn Bayern
"JSTL in Action" http://www.manning.com/bayern
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