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Jeremy Canfield | Updated May 14th, 2018
Creating variables in JSTL is incredibly easy. First, add the following line to the top of your JSP page.
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
Inside of the <body> tags, use c:set to create a variable. In this example, a variable called name is created with a value of Jeremy. This is a key:value pair.
<c:set var="name" value="Jeremy"/>
Use c:out to print a variable. This markup should produce the value of the variable called name, which will print Jeremy in this example.
<c:out value="${name}">Default Value</c:out>
In this example, when running the app, "Jeremy" is displayed. If c:set was not used, then "Default Value" would be displayed.
