Chapter 17. Bits and Pieces

In the previous chapters, I have demonstrated the standard JSP features as well as the JSTL actions and a few custom actions through practical, complete examples. But some features are hard to fit nicely into these examples without losing focus, so I describe them separately in this chapter instead. Topics covered here include buffering of the response body, ways to include shared page segments, global configuration settings, using client-side code to provide a more interactive interface, preventing JSP pages from being cached, writing JSP pages as well-formed XML documents, and a discussion about the different types of URIs used in JSP pages.