Using static variables in JSP

Hi All,
I have written the following code, but its not compiling saying that "Class or interface declaration expected. static "
I dotn know whats wrong in this scriplet though.. any help is greatly appretiated.
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>JSP Scriplet</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
static int counter = 15;
for(int i = 0; i < 15; i++){
int p = returnCounter();
if(p == 0)
System.out.println("I am the 15th user");
public static int returnCounter(){
counter = counter - 1;
System.out.println("counter : " + counter);
return counter;
%>
</body>
</html>

Simply put, you're Java code is wrong.
The detail is that essentially all of the code in your JSP file is in one big method.
So, here's what your code looks like to the compiler:
public void _internalJspDoPageCode() {
    static int counter = 15;
    public static int returnCounter() {
}You can't simply nest methods like this in Java.
If you want to, you can try this:
<%
    public class mycounter {
        static int counter = 15;
        public static int returnCounter() {
            counter = counter - 1;
            return counter;
    for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
        int p = mycounter.returnCounter();
        if(p == 0)
            System.out.println("I am the 15th user");
%>That will create an inner class with a static member, which is basically what you're trying to do.
But note that this inner class is only accessible from this JSP page, and no where else.

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