Finally, let’s look at bean tags. We have a whole topic on the use of JavaBeans in JSPs. And you know from our Overview that we want to clearly separate the work areas of page authors and producers from the Java scripting language programmers.

JSP bean tags help to do this by separating page authors from the details of the dynamic content generation. Scripting language programmers can write beans to perform various functions. Within JSPs, the bean tag is used to access a JavaBean.

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