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    copied!<p>The <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/tags/el/info">SO EL Tag Wiki</a> describes a way to do this without using a scriptlet: using an EL function to do the sort, then using the result for the <code>items</code> attribute in the JSTL core <code>forEach</code> tag.</p> <p>The function class:</p> <pre><code>package org.hierax.ifdl.tags.player; public final class PlayerSort { public static List&lt;Player&gt; sortByRank(List&lt;Player&gt; playerList) { Collections.sort(playerList, new PlayerSortByRank()); return playerList; } public static List&lt;Player&gt; sortByAlias(List&lt;Player&gt; playerList) { Collections.sort(playerList, new PlayerSortByAlias()); return playerList; } } </code></pre> <p>The TLD:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?&gt; &lt;taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd" version="2.1"&gt; &lt;display-name&gt;Player Functions&lt;/display-name&gt; &lt;tlib-version&gt;1.0&lt;/tlib-version&gt; &lt;short-name&gt;player&lt;/short-name&gt; &lt;uri&gt;org.hierax.ifdl.tags&lt;/uri&gt; &lt;function&gt; &lt;name&gt;sortByRank&lt;/name&gt; &lt;function-class&gt;org.hierax.ifdl.tags.player.PlayerSort&lt;/function-class&gt; &lt;function-signature&gt;java.util.List sortByRank(java.util.List)&lt;/function-signature&gt; &lt;/function&gt; &lt;function&gt; &lt;name&gt;sortByAlias&lt;/name&gt; &lt;function-class&gt;org.hierax.ifdl.tags.player.PlayerSort&lt;/function-class&gt; &lt;function-signature&gt;java.util.List sortByAlias(java.util.List)&lt;/function-signature&gt; &lt;/function&gt; &lt;/taglib&gt; </code></pre> <p>The menu JSP:</p> <pre><code>&lt;%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %&gt; &lt;%@ taglib prefix="p" uri="/WEB-INF/player.tld" %&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Players&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;c:forEach items="${p:sortByAlias(model.players)}" var="player"&gt; &lt;a href="&lt;c:url value="/player/${player.id}"/&gt;" class="menuItem"&gt;${player.alias}&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/c:forEach&gt; &lt;/p&gt; </code></pre>
 

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