Spring EL supports most of the standard mathematical, logical or relational operators. For example,

• Relational operators – equal (==, eq), not equal (!=, ne), less than (<, lt), less than or equal (<= , le), greater than (>, gt), and greater than or equal (>=, ge).
• Logical operators – and, or, and not (!).
• Mathematical operators – addition (+), Subtraction (-), Multiplication (*), division (/), modulus (%) and exponential power (^).

Spring EL in Annotation

This example demonstrates the use of operators in SpEL.

package com.mkyong.core;import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;@Component("customerBean")public class Customer {    //Relational operators        @Value("#{1 == 1}") //true    private boolean testEqual;        @Value("#{1 != 1}") //false    private boolean testNotEqual;        @Value("#{1 < 1}") //false    private boolean testLessThan;        @Value("#{1 <= 1}") //true    private boolean testLessThanOrEqual;        @Value("#{1 > 1}") //false    private boolean testGreaterThan;        @Value("#{1 >= 1}") //true    private boolean testGreaterThanOrEqual;    //Logical operators , numberBean.no == 999        @Value("#{numberBean.no == 999 and numberBean.no < 900}") //false    private boolean testAnd;        @Value("#{numberBean.no == 999 or numberBean.no < 900}") //true    private boolean testOr;        @Value("#{!(numberBean.no == 999)}") //false    private boolean testNot;    //Mathematical operators        @Value("#{1 + 1}") //2.0    private double testAdd;        @Value("#{'1' + '@' + '1'}") //1@1    private String testAddString;        @Value("#{1 - 1}") //0.0    private double testSubtraction;    @Value("#{1 * 1}") //1.0    private double testMultiplication;        @Value("#{10 / 2}") //5.0    private double testDivision;        @Value("#{10 % 10}") //0.0    private double testModulus ;        @Value("#{2 ^ 2}") //4.0    private double testExponentialPower;    @Override    public String toString() {        return "Customer [testEqual=" + testEqual + ", testNotEqual="                + testNotEqual + ", testLessThan=" + testLessThan                + ", testLessThanOrEqual=" + testLessThanOrEqual                + ", testGreaterThan=" + testGreaterThan                + ", testGreaterThanOrEqual=" + testGreaterThanOrEqual                + ", testAnd=" + testAnd + ", testOr=" + testOr + ", testNot="                + testNot + ", testAdd=" + testAdd + ", testAddString="                + testAddString + ", testSubtraction=" + testSubtraction                + ", testMultiplication=" + testMultiplication                + ", testDivision=" + testDivision + ", testModulus="                + testModulus + ", testExponentialPower="                + testExponentialPower + "]";    }    }

package com.mkyong.core;import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;@Component("numberBean")public class Number {    @Value("999")    private int no;    public int getNo() {        return no;    }    public void setNo(int no) {        this.no = no;    }}

Run it

Customer obj = (Customer) context.getBean("customerBean");       System.out.println(obj);

Output

Customer [    testEqual=true,     testNotEqual=false,     testLessThan=false,     testLessThanOrEqual=true,     testGreaterThan=false,     testGreaterThanOrEqual=true,     testAnd=false,     testOr=true,     testNot=false,     testAdd=2.0,     testAddString=1@1,     testSubtraction=0.0,     testMultiplication=1.0,     testDivision=5.0,     testModulus=0.0,     testExponentialPower=4.0]

Spring EL in XML

See equivalent version in bean definition XML file. In XML, symbol like "less than" is always not support, instead, you should use the textual equivalents shown above, for example, ('<' = 'lt') and ('<=' = 'le').