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Hi all,

I am using Tomcat 5.5 and Servlet 2.4 specification. I am learning J2EE basics from a book, "Pro JSP" from Apress edition. In this book, an example is given, which i am wondering ....how it works ?

The example is as follows: -

The authors want to say that, if in an EL expression you want to include "$" and "{" symbol....you need to escape it, and the example they gave is :-

In order to print = ${2 + 3} on the page...
the EL must be = ${'${'}2 + 3}

I am not able to understand how does the EL suggested in the book works ...it does display the output as desired....but how ? ... Because, before reading the EL mentioned by the authors, i was thinking, how i would have written an EL to print "${2 + 3}" on page!

I came up with following EL expressions which also give the same desired result: -

EL expression no. 1)

... here i have escaped the characters in the order they will appear from Left to Right in the String literal

EL expression no. 2)
[CODE}
${"${2 + 3}"}
[/CODE]
... here in this EL, i thought since, i just want to PRINT text ....that is string literal on the page,...why not put all the characters in double quotes ?

....so all the three expression works....but how do they work ?...what is the exact processing done behind the scenes ? Which one is more correct and appropriate ?
 
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