<p>Greetings, it is now <c:out value="${now}"/></p>
In this jsp code what is the $ sign actually doing?
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It Identifies it as an expression, an expression is of the format
${....}, so it’s placing yournowvariable in the page (HTML encoded, since you’re using<c:out>).For the
<c:out>encoding comment: You can grab the full spec here, or if you want to learn more about JSTL in general, start here.