6.4. JSP Actions

You're probably expecting there to be three JSP actions, since there were three scripting elements and three directives. You would be right, for sufficiently large values of three. There are three JSP actions used to support access to JavaBeans, another three used to support applets, and then two that are still searching for a third partner. We'll cover those last two actions first, followed by a brief look at the applet support actions. We'll save the actions related to JavaBeans until the next chapter.

The JSP action syntax resembles the XML-based syntax presented as an option for our previous tags, rather than the ASP-derived brief syntax we presented first.

6.4.1. The <jsp:include> Action

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