included in the JSP 2.1 specification (JSR-245), and later specified by itself in JSR-341, part of Java EE 7.

History

Origin as JSTL

The expression language started out as part of the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and was originally called SPEL (Simplest Possible Expression Language), then just Expression Language (EL). It was a scripting language which allowed access to Java

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