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Hi All,

Why do we have to go for JSP Expression Language when we already have Scriplets, JSTL and custom tags?

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The JSTL and EL go hand-in-hand to eliminate the need for messy and old-fashioned scriptlets in JSP pages. In fact, the JSTL without the EL would be pretty useless.
 
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Besides, you can perfectly use EL without JSTL.

Also, as Bear mentioned, EL is been used in all taglibs I know about (JSTL, JSF, Struts, etcetera). So I can't imagine how I would use taglibs without EL.
 
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Thanks for replying guys.
 
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