In this section, you can see an overview of the main aspects of EL 2.2 and 3.0 syntax. EL supports a handful of operators and reserved words. Each of these are quickly described in the following section (more details are in the EL specification document (http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/jcp/el-3_0-fr-eval-spec/index.html)).
EL supports the following categories of operators—arithmetic, relational, logical, conditional, empty and added starting with EL 3.0, string concatenation, assignment and semicolon operators: