Can method declared in JSP have HTML tags?

Question

          Hi all,
          Can a method in JSP page have a HTML tags? (e.g. <td> or <tr>
          etc)?
          Can anybody just give a small example for the same?
          Thanks,
          Amar
          

Answer 1

          Thanks Gary,
          The session bean which is invoked from the JSP page, returns a collection of objects. And each object can have child objects also. In the JSP page i want to iterate through the collection to display the data and that's why the method required is recursive. What would be the better approach for this scenario?
          Regards,
          Amar
          "Gary Keim" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >Yes, that will work fine. However, you might want to strive to reach a
          >place where your JSPs are only "looking" at data held by JavaBeans. That
          >is, if you're going to have your JSP doing ANYTHING other than simply being
          >the face on other data, you might as well make it a plain ol' servlet.
          >
          >A common pattern is to have a master servlet do any logic processing, then
          >it redirects to a JSP for the presentation.
          >
          >-Gary
          >
          >"Amar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          >news:[email protected]...
          >>
          >> Gary Thanks for your reply.
          >>
          >> In the recursive function which i was trying to write, i wanted to display
          >HTML, so that the function is responsible for display of the HTML also (it
          >was not possible to send the HTML back to the calling function and print it
          >in the scriplet, as the function is recursive). But we can use out.print
          >statement in that recursive function by passing the "out" (JSPWriter) object
          >to that function. So instead of putting static text in the function, we can
          >use out.print statements and acheive the same.
          >>
          >> Any suggestion? Any other better way to acheive the same?
          >>
          >> Regards,
          >> Amar
          >>
          >> "Gary Keim" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >> >I responded to Amar privately on this.
          >> >
          >> >-Gary
          >> >
          >> >"Amar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          >> >news:[email protected]...
          >> >>
          >> >> Hi Gary,
          >> >>
          >> >> Thanks for ur interest. I wanted to write a method (function,
          >procedure)
          >> >in a JSP page, in that i want to write a HTML tags. I tried that but JSP
          >> >compiler throws error for that. Is it that i have to include some other
          >tag?
          >> >Am i missing something.
          >> >>
          >> >> <%!
          >> >> private void displayProxy(ArrayList ObjectsInfo, BaseLW aObj)
          >> >> {
          >> >> ProxyObjectDisplayInfo ObjInfo =
          >> >(ProxyObjectDisplayInfo)ObjectsInfo.get(0);
          >> >> int Cnt = ObjInfo.mColumnNames.size();
          >> >> String Str = new String();
          >> >> for(int j = 0; j < Cnt; j++)
          >> >> {
          >> >> Str = Str + aObj.getColumnValue((String)ObjInfo.mColumnNames.get(j)) +
          >" ,
          >> >";
          >> >> }
          >> >> Str = Str.substring(0, Str.length()-3);
          >> >> String StrHRef = new String();
          >> >> StrHRef = "<a href=\"client?client_id=";
          >> >> StrHRef = StrHRef + aObj.getColumnValue("ClientCode");
          >> >> StrHRef = StrHRef + "\">";
          >> >> try
          >> >> {
          >> >> %>
          >> >> <tr bgcolor=\"#eeebcc\">
          >> >> <td>
          >> >> <%=StrHRef%>
          >> >> <%=Str%>
          >> >> </a>
          >> >> </td>
          >> >> </tr>
          >> >> <%
          >> >> }
          >> >> }
          >> >> %>
          >> >>
          >> >> Regards,
          >> >> Amar
          >> >>
          >> >> Gary Keim <[email protected]> wrote:
          >> >> >Amar,
          >> >> >
          >> >> >I don't think anyone is answering your question because we don't
          >> >> >understand what you are asking. Can you rephrase the question using
          >> >> >standard terminology? For example, what do you mean by "a method in
          >JSP
          >> >> >page?"
          >> >> >
          >> >> >-Gary
          >> >> >
          >> >> >Amar wrote:
          >> >> >
          >> >> >> Hi all,
          >> >> >>
          >> >> >> Can a method in JSP page have a HTML tags? (e.g. <td> or <tr>
          >> >> >> etc)?
          >> >> >>
          >> >> >> Can anybody just give a small example for the same?
          >> >> >>
          >> >> >> Thanks,
          >> >> >> Amar
          >> >> >>
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