how to implemnet eval function in jsp ?

[ben josh]

im trying to implement somekind of option that will mimk the "eval" function in jsp
Something like eval from javascritp or perl
can it be done somehow it jsp?

my case is that I need for example to generate dynamic variables names and I can't find any other possibility
Then using something like eval that I know.

Thanks all

[William Brogden]

If you want to be able to evaluate arbitrary function code, that sounds like a "scripting" language to me. There is a lot of activity in the area of scripting languages for Java - Jython, Beanshell, JRuby, Groovy are some that come to mind. A more detailed explanation of what you want to do would help.

Naturally you should never put any code of any significant complexity directly in a JSP. Create a helper class that can be tested outside the servlet environment.

Bill