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<pre>public abstract class <span class="typeNameLabel">Expression</span>
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The abstract class for a prepared expression.
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An instance of an Expression can be obtained via from an ExpressionEvaluator instance.
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An Expression may or not have done a syntactic parse of the expression. A client invoking the evaluate() method
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<td class="colFirst"><code>abstract java.lang.Object</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../javax/servlet/jsp/el/Expression.html#evaluate-javax.servlet.jsp.el.VariableResolver-">evaluate</a></span>(<a href="../../../../javax/servlet/jsp/el/VariableResolver.html" title="interface in javax.servlet.jsp.el">VariableResolver</a>&nbsp;vResolver)</code>
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<pre>public&nbsp;Expression()</pre>
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<pre>public abstract&nbsp;java.lang.Object&nbsp;evaluate(<a href="../../../../javax/servlet/jsp/el/VariableResolver.html" title="interface in javax.servlet.jsp.el">VariableResolver</a>&nbsp;vResolver)
throws <a href="../../../../javax/servlet/jsp/el/ELException.html" title="class in javax.servlet.jsp.el">ELException</a></pre>
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<div class="block">Evaluates an expression that was previously prepared. In some implementations preparing an expression involves
full syntactic validation, but others may not do so. Evaluating the expression may raise an ELParseException as
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<dd><code><a href="../../../../javax/servlet/jsp/el/ELException.html" title="class in javax.servlet.jsp.el">ELException</a></code> - Thrown if the expression evaluation failed.</dd>
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