I remember reading that $ is immediate evaluation and % is lazy evaluation in EL but i might've been confused somehow, i can't find a link back to that.
Anyway they both work in EL. Then there's the #{} that is OGNL and throws this in EL:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp(14,38) #{..} is not allowed in template text
Are you sure?? ${} is EL %{} is not. %{} is part of the OGNL syntax which is used to get values from the default object of the ActionContext (the default is the ValueStack i.e. %{} by default gets values from the ValueStack). %{} can be used with # i.e. %{# } is used to get a value from the ActionContext itself. The ActionContext contains the attributes of different scopes so if you write %{#session['attr']} , the value of the session scoped attribute named attr is returned...
I think i get the difference, i might've mistaken and tried %{} in a struts 2 enabled envirnoment. In a simple HelloWorld JSP app %{} doesn't work (not EL). Thanks.
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