/code></a> provides simple APIs for the direct
evaluations of expressions. It also makes it easy to define functions,
set variables, and define beans locally.</p>

<p><a href="../../javax/el/ELManager.html" title="class in javax.el"><code>ELManager</code></a> provides lower level APIs for managing the Jakarta Expression Language
parsing and evaluation environment.  It contains a default ELContext <a href="../../javax/el/StandardELContext.html" title="class in javax.el"><code>StandardELContext</code></a>.</p