Some JSP Examples
We already know that the JSP page includes HTML tags interspersed with special JSP tags. These tags can contain attributes, or a body, which is interpreted by the compiler. The <% tag on the page indicates to the JSP compiler that Java code follows, and a %> indicates to the compiler that this is the end of Java code.
The Java code contained within a block of these tags is not a formal Java class declaration with data members and method declarations; instead it is a fragment of Java code used by the JSP parser to construct the Java code that will be executed when the JSP is accessed. A particular section of the code fragment does not need to be a completed code block, but when the parsing of the JSP is complete, a Java code ...
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