I tried to run some examples in
Tomcat 5.5 / Netbeans
ide Here are my findings
1) Classic Tags are allowed to have all the four values of body-content
i.e. scriptless,JSP,empty and tagdependent
2) Having scripting elements in the body of a classic tag is NOT an error
if the body-content is set to scriptless
Thus it seems tag files and Simple Tags , which were introduced in JSP 2.0 , are not allowed to have scripting elements in their body . Thus only possible values for them are scriptless,empty and tagdependent
However, classic tags can have scripting elements and also all the four values for the body-content.
Surprisingly HFSJ does not talk about this difference.
Ranchers please share your views !!!