I've been doing this the whole time in my JSP code:
<c:out value="${myVar}"/>
Today I just realized for the first time that I seem to be able to use this shorter version just as well:
${myVar}
It works without <c:out>!
Perhaps this is because my page is declared like this:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;
charset=utf-8" pageEncoding="utf-8" isELIgnored="false" %>
So, my question is, can I replace <c:out> in my code with this shorter version? Is there any reason to keep using <c:out>? Or are there places where I might still need it?