Chapter 10. Developing JSP Beans

Developing JSP Beans

In Chapter 8, “JSP Basics,” and Chapter 9, “JSP Syntax,” you learned how you can write JSP pages by interweaving HTML tags and Java code. Although this makes writing JSP pages easy and straightforward, there are at least two disadvantages to this approach. First, the resulting spaghetti-like page seriously lacks readability. Second, there is no separation of the presentation and business rule implementation. To write a JSP page this way means a JSP author must master both Java and HTML.

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