Declarations
A JSP declaration is used to declare variables and methods in a page's scripting language. The syntax for a declaration is as follows:
<%! scripting language declaration %>
When the scripting language is the Java programming language, variables and methods in JSP declarations become declarations in the JSP page's servlet class.
Initializing and Finalizing a JSP Page
You can customize the initialization process to allow the JSP page to read persistent configuration data, initialize resources, and perform any other one-time activities; to do so, you override the jspInit method of the JspPage interface.
You release resources using the jspDestroy method. The methods are defined using JSP declarations.
For example, an older version ...
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