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JSP Scriptlets Tutorial

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JSP also allows you to write blocks of Java code inside the JSP.  You do this by placing your Java code between <% and %> characters (just like expressions, but without the = sign at the start of the sequence.)
This block of code is known as a "scriptlet".  By itself, a scriptlet doesn't contribute any HTML (though it can, as we will see down below.)  A scriptlet contains Java code that is executed every time the JSP is invoked. 
Here is a modified version of our JSP from previous section, adding in a scriptlet.
<HTML>
<BODY>
<%
    // This is a scriptlet.  Notice that the "date"
    // variable we declare here is available in the
    // embedded expression later on.
    System.out.println( "Evaluating date now" );
    java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date();
%>
Hello!  The time is now <%= date %>
</BODY>
</HTML>  more...

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