String Concatenation in EL [duplicate]

I would like to concatenate a string within a ternary operator in EL(Expression Language).

Suppose there is a variable named value. If it's empty, I want to use some default text. Otherwise, I need to append it with some static text.

${(empty value)? "none" : value + " enabled"}

This will not compile however. What would be a correct way to write this? Or is this even possible?


With EL 2 you can do the following:

#{'this'.concat(' is').concat(' a').concat(' test!')}

This answer is obsolete. Technology has moved on. Unless you're working with legacy systems see Joel's answer.


There is no string concatenation operator in EL. If you don't need the concatenated string to pass into some other operation, just put these expressions next to each other:

${value}${(empty value)? 'none' : ' enabled'}