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JSP Interview
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What is a output comment? |
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A comment that is sent to the client in the viewable page
source. The JSP engine handles an output comment as uninterpreted HTML text,
returning the comment in the HTML output sent to the client. You can see the
comment by viewing the page source from your Web browser.
JSP Syntax
<!-- comment [ <%= expression %> ] -->
Example 1
<!-- This is a comment sent to client on
<%= (new java.util.Date()).toLocaleString() %>
-->
Displays in the page source:
<!-- This is a comment sent to client on January 24, 2004 --> |
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What is a Hidden Comment? |
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A comments that documents the JSP page but is not sent to
the client. The JSP engine ignores a hidden comment, and does not process
any code within hidden comment tags. A hidden comment is not sent to the
client, either in the displayed JSP page or the HTML page source. The hidden
comment is useful when you want to hide or "comment out" part of your JSP
page.
You can use any
characters in the body of the comment except the closing --%> combination.
If you need to use --%> in your comment, you can escape it by typing --%\>.
JSP Syntax
<%-- comment --%>
Examples
<%@ page language="java" %>
<html>
<head><title>A Hidden Comment </title></head>
<body>
<%-- This comment will not be visible in the page source --%>
</body>
</html> |
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What is a Expression? |
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An expression tag contains a scripting language
expression that is evaluated, converted to a String, and inserted where the
expression appears in the JSP file. Because the value of an expression is
converted to a String, you can use an expression within text in a JSP file.
Like
<%= someexpression %>
<%= (new
java.util.Date()).toLocaleString() %>
You cannot use a
semicolon to end an expression |
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What is a Declaration?
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A declaration declares one or more variables or methods
for use later in the JSP source file.
A declaration must
contain at least one complete declarative statement. You can declare any
number of variables or methods within one declaration tag, as long as they
are separated by semicolons. The declaration must be valid in the scripting
language used in the JSP file.
<%! somedeclarations %>
<%! int i = 0; %>
<%! int a, b, c; %> |
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What is a Scriptlet? |
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A scriptlet can contain any number of language
statements, variable or method declarations, or expressions that are valid
in the page scripting language.Within scriptlet tags, you can
1.Declare variables or
methods to use later in the file (see also Declaration).
2.Write expressions valid in the page scripting language (see also
Expression).
3.Use any of the JSP implicit objects or any object declared with a <jsp:useBean>
tag.
You must write plain text, HTML-encoded text, or other JSP tags outside the
scriptlet.
Scriptlets are executed
at request time, when the JSP engine processes the client request. If the
scriptlet produces output, the output is stored in the out object, from
which you can display it. |
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What are implicit objects? List them? |
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Certain objects that are available for the use in JSP
documents without being declared first. These objects are parsed by the JSP
engine and inserted into the generated servlet. The implicit objects re
listed below
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request
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response
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pageContext
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session
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application
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out
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config
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page
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exception
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