Scriptlets and Java code in JSP pages suck. Hereʼs why! 5. 2001 called and it wants its code back! It's 2011! And while we're still waiting for the jet packs and flying cars that we expected to have ...

JSP standard actions are powerful. They can avoid lot of boilerplate scriptlet code and ease JSP code development. JSP standard actions are great time-savers and help in JSP view generation.

Java comments can also occur in a JSP inside Java scriptlet sections. These are not viewable in the browser either, but including Java comments in the JSP page violates the principle of separating ...

I find the scriptlets to be tempting because java is more concise sometimes than writing all the JSP code. <BR><BR>So for an application that basically takes content from a web form and throws it ...

This article, an excerpt from Foundations of JSP Design Patterns (Apress, 2004), describes the View Helper pattern and shows how to build a few useful view helpers that you can add to your own ...

In a JSP document, they are replaced with XML alternatives, such as <jsp:directive.include> and <jsp:scriptlet> tags. Writing JSP documents is not a requirement for generating well-formed XML from JSP ...