scriptlet

Other changes in Listing 1 have to do with the code being a JSP tag rather than a scriptlet operating within a page.

You do still have the very small scriptlet on the body declaration.

A JSP container handles scriptlets, expressions, and declarations each in a different way.

Note that when the response is generated, the JSP scriptlet tags will be replaced with the time stamp result.

The scriptlet example in Listing 1, for instance, is critically dependent upon proper matching of braces.

In particular, it is fairly common for page authors to resort to scriptlets to implement iterative or conditional content.

In general, you should not put scriptlet code into your JSPs, and instead use tags for those tasks.

The scriptlet to end it is really simple, but often gets forgotten (or put in the wrong place).

The only way to reuse a scriptlet is by copy-and-paste.

The values extracted in the JSP scriptlet (in Listing 18) are placed in the hidden fields.

The Java scriptlet handles the logic to figure out which albums to show.

The scriptlet to start the loop is rather complex.

You used a JSP scriptlet to query and filter the data, and then to write the XML to the page.

They aren't the right way to do things, but they are (unfortunately) the easy way.

You should now see a scriptlet icon appear on the page.

The most popular example of this is using scriptlets in JSP code.

The next line contains a scriptlet that calls the

full JSP scriptlet support, outside code changes immediately available in scriptlets

JSP scriptlet for a hidden field with

We add the Java code to the file between scriptlet tags

The line in the example is equivalent to the following line using the standard scriptlet tag