How to loop over HashMap in JSP using JSTL

Though there are a number of ways to loop over an HashMap in JSP, or any other Map implementation e.g. Hashtable, I personally prefer the JSTL foreach tag for iteration over HashMap in JSP. As a Java programmer, you will often have a strong urge to use Java code directly in JSP using scriptlet, but that's a bad coding practice and one should always avoid that. In fact, by smart use of expression language and JSTL core tag library, you can reduce a lot of Java code from your JSP page. In our last post, we have seen an example of JSTL foreach tag to loop over List, but not an HashMap, and that creates a doubt in one of my readers mind that foreach tag doesn't support Map implementation like HashMap or Hashtable as they are not Collection, but that's not true. You can use the same technique to loop over an HashMap in JSP which we have used earlier to loop over a list in JSP.

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