How does EL search for an attribute?

Question

How does EL search for an attribute in JSP? and how to disable it?

does any one know the performance of EL?

Answer 1

This article explains everything that you are asking.

Answer 2

In EL, if an object is not an implicit object it searches through the various scopes for an object of the given name. The order in which the search takes place is below:

1. Page scope
2. Request scope
3. Session scope
4. Application scope

To disable EL: <%@ page isELIgnored ="true" %>