Answer 1

It is a terrible idea for static text. You then have no barrier as to what is static and what is dynamically generated.

Besides which, on Servlet Spec 2.3+ you can have dynamic text mixed with static text as:

This is static, not ${dynamic} text.

The only reasons to use c:out tags, in my experience:

1. You're using an older servlet spec, and need them to output DYNAMIC text in some fashion

2. You want to escape HTML output to avoid using <>, etc, replacing ampersands with their control codes, etc.

Otherwise, having them use static text confuses the programmer or maintainer...now where did I put that EL? It was in a c:out tag...but so was fifty other lines of static text!

Answered by: Caroline514 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 2

If you're just printing out plain text it's better to do it in HTML. The advantage of the c:out tag is that you can evaluate expressions inside the tag.

<c:out value="Hello ${user.firstName} ${user.lastName}"/>

Answered by: Dainton107 | Posted: 01-03-2022

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