Invoking Java Code With JSP Scripting Elements

This chapter discusses the "Classic" approach to invoking Java code from within JSP pages. This approach works in both JSP 1 i.e., JSP 1.2 and earlier and JSP 2. This paper discusses the JSP expression language, which provides a concise mechanism to indirectly invoke Java code, but only in JSP 2.0 and later. In most cases, a large percentage of the JSP document consists of static text usually HTML, known as template text.