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Re: Making EL easier to use

From: Dan Allen <dan.j.allen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:50:23 -0500

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir_at_redhat.com> wrote:

> I got a comment from a Tom Baeyens (a colleague here at Red Hat who was
> integrating UEL into jBPM) that he was surprised that he had to do so much
> manual setup of EL (for example adding all the "built in" EL resolvers such
> as MapELResolver, having to manually create an expression factory).
>

+1

This is the main problem with using the EL outside of JSF or JSP. You have
so much work to do to get it running...and some of that work requires that
you have a hard dependency on an EL implementation. This is captured in the
"Bootstrapping the ELContext" feature request.

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