Dealing with Syntax Errors

The first type of error you will encounter is the one you, or your coworkers, create by simple typos—in other words, syntax errors. The JSP container needs every JSP element to be written exactly as it’s defined in the specification in order to process the JSP page. When it finds something that’s not right, it tells you. How easy it is to understand what it tells you depends on the type of error, the JSP container implementation, and sometimes, on how fluent you are in computer gibberish.

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