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<div class="deprecationBlock"><span class="deprecatedLabel">Deprecated.</span>
<div class="deprecationComment">As of JSP 2.1, replaced by <code>ValueExpression</code></div>
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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 synta