Most JSP developers use shorthand syntax for JSP tags rather than XML syntax. This is partially evidenced by Sun’s JavaServer Pages Syntax Reference, which lists only the tags’ shorthand form.

Following the introduction, Fields and Kolb provide an in-depth look into JSP syntax, from beans and session management to directives, actions, and implicit objects.

You can consider all the JSP-delimited code in a page, collectively, as one big Java program. That’s why you can put code fragments — typically, include statements — up at the top of your ...

Second, JSP 2.0 supports a new expression and variable manipulation syntax based on both ECMAScript and XPath.