Learn Java for Web Development

122 CHAPTER 3: Best Practices in Java EE Web Development

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   Line 23: This outputs the name of the author using expressions.

   Line 50: This shows that it is not possible to output the name of the author using

a JSP standard action.

   Line 60: This outputs the name of the author using EL.

Figure 3-7 illustrates what you will see when you run this application (http://localhost:8080/
chapter03/book). Essentially, it is just not possible to display the value of the name property of Author
using a standard JSP action; scripting elements would have been the only way to do it, had it not
been for EL.