10.4. JSP Declarations
A JSP declaration lets you define methods or fields that get inserted into the main body of the servlet class (outside of the _jspService method that is called by service to process the request). A declaration has the following form:
<%! Java Code %>
Since declarations do not generate any output, they are normally used in conjunction with JSP expressions or scriptlets. For example, here is a JSP fragment that prints the number of times the current page has been requested since the server was booted (or the servlet class was changed and reloaded). Recall that multiple client requests to the same servlet result only in multiple threads calling the service method of a single servlet instance. They do not result in the creation ...
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