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package javax.servlet.jsp.el;
/**
* The abstract class for a prepared expression.
*
* An instance of an Expression can be obtained via from an
* ExpressionEvaluator instance.
*
* An Expression may or not have done a syntactic parse of the expression.
* A client invoking the evaluate() method should be ready for the case
* where ELParseException exceptions are raised.
*
* @deprecated As of JSP 2.1, replaced by {@link javax.el.ValueExpression}
* @since JSP 2.0
*/
public abstract class Expression {
/**
* 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 well as other ELExceptions due to
* run-time evaluation.
*
* @param vResolver A VariableResolver instance that can be used at
* runtime to resolve the name of implicit objects into Objects.
* @return The result of the expression evaluation.
*
* @exception ELException Thrown if the expression evaluation failed.
*/
public abstract Object evaluate( VariableResolver vResolver )
throws ELException;
}