How do I round a number in JSTL?

As an alternative:

<fmt:formatNumber var="expiry"
  value="${(expire.time - now.time) / (60 * 1000)}"
  maxFractionDigits="0" />

This way you do not lose localization (commas and dots).

I used:

${fn:substringBefore(expiry, '.')}

which truncates rather than rounding, but that may be good enough.

What about this dirty hack:

<c:set
  var="expiry"
  value="${(((expire.time - now.time) / (60 * 1000) * 100) - 0.5) / 100.0}"/>

But I would do this in a bean and just show the result here. Beside this, you can define functions in your tld or, if that is not supported in your environment get functions in the expression language by implementing a Map and (ab)use it. You implement the get(Object) method to do what you want and call it like this:

<c:set
  var="expiry"
  value="${Helpers.round[(expire.time - now.time) / (60 * 1000)]"/>

Note, Helpers provides a "getRound()" method which returns your Map implementation.

It may looks like:

<c:set var="expire" value="100"/>
<c:set var="now" value="3"/>

<c:choose>
 <c:when test="${(expire mod now)!=0}">
  <c:set var="res" value="${(expire - (expire mod now))/now}"/>
  ${res}
 </c:when>
 <c:otherwise>
  <c:set var="res" value="${expire/now}"/>
  ${res}
 </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>

note: i think you should use mod anyway or % functionality of jstl,i use mod in example. Test,please, "expire" and "now" variables with different values, should work ok.