Expression Language 3.0

This feature enables support for the Expression Language (EL) 3.0.

Enable this feature

To enable the Expression Language 3.0 feature, add the following element declaration into server.xml, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>el-3.0</feature>

Standard API packages provided by this feature

• javax.el

Supported Java versions

• JavaSE-1.8
• JavaSE-11.0
• JavaSE-17.0
• JavaSE-21.0
• JavaSE-24.0

Platform Versions

• javaee-7.0
• javaee-8.0
• jakartaee-8.0

Features that enable this feature

• appSecurity-3.0
• beanValidation-1.1
• beanValidation-2.0
• jsp-2.3
• webProfile-7.0
• webProfile-8.0

Develop a feature that depends on this feature

If we are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.el-3.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"