Where in a compiled servlet do various parts of a JSP file go?

Question

Before the translation phase, there was a <%! .... %> code line in my JSP page. I know that this would be run only once in the translated servlet. Does it mean that the s

Answer 1

At the time of code compilation code containing inside <%! .... %> this tag is consider as class member of servlet.

and

code containing inside <% .... %> this tag goes into the service() method of servlet.

If you want to see the generated java file, go to tomcat/work/..... directory.

File will be created with name as JspFileName_jsp.java and JspFileName_jsp.class

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