Originally posted by Timothy Sam:
are there any alternatives in my case then?
That depends on what you are trying to do.
General method calling is not part of the EL as the framers of the
JSP specification want people to start moving away from performing processing on the page and towards better practices, such as scriptless JSP pages.
If you're going to continue to use the JSP as a
unit of processing rather than as a view, you might as well just continue to use
Java scriplets on your pages. I do not receommend that.