Ada EL is a library that implements an expression language similar to JSP and JSF Unified Expression Languages (EL). The expression language is the foundation used by Java Server Faces and Ada Server Faces to make the necessary binding between presentation pages in XML/HTML and the application code written in Java or Ada.

The presentation page uses an UEL expression to retrieve the value provided by some application object (Java or Ada). In the following expression:

#{questionInfo.question.rating}

the EL runtime will first retrieve the object registered under the name questionInfo and look for the question and then rating data members. The data value is then converted to a string.

The new release is available for download at http://download.vacs.fr/ada-el/ada-el-1.5.0.tar.gz

This version brings the following improvements:

• EL parser optimization (20% to 30% speed up)
• Support for the creation of Debian packages