Scriptlets

<% ...java code... %>

Scriptlets allow arbitrary Java code, and eventually other languages, to be placed in a JSP. For the most part such code should reside in beans and other classes, but there are times when placing it in a page is unavoidable. Complex logic can be added to pages by surrounding regions of text with scriptlets, where one scriptlet ends with an opening brace and a second one provides the matching close. Scriplets were first seen in Listing 6.2