Scriptlets let you insert arbitrary code into servlet's _jspService method.
Can anyone explain this statement with an example containing a block of code?
I am aware about syntactical stuff of JSP and Servlets, what I need to know is
- In what context arbitrary code is used?
_jspService() is a method of JSP life cycle then,
- What does it mean by servlet's method?
A JSP is in fact transformed by the container into a Java class extending HttpServlet, that class is then compiled and executed exactly as a hand-coded servlet would be.
The code you have into the JSP is transformed into Java code that constitutes the _jspService method of the generated servlet. So, for example
is transformed by the container, into something like
So, whatever code you write into your scriptlets (arbitrary code) ends up in the _jspService method of the servlet created by the container from the JSP.