The JSP Expression Language allows a page author to access a bean using a simple syntax such as ${first.second}. Some valid EL syntax include ${pageContext.request.method}, ...

What’s great about using JSTL tags with JSF tags is that they both use similar expression languages to reference objects (this is true for JSP 2.0’s expression language as well).

I propose an alternative that defines portlet namespaces and portlet context paths using JSTL andJSP> EL.. Author's note: I recently discovered that this so-called archaic method seems to be required ...