The question above is from David Bridgewater and the answer is given as E. I thought C?? won't the System.out.println write to the server console (log)???
oops...sorry moderators, actually when I tried posting it, it gave me some errors so I used my browser back button and resubmitted it again and later I found it to be duplicated. You can delete this post as I'll use the other one!
Note that the example is using two kind of scriptlets: declarations (<%! %> and scripting expressions (<% %>. The Date code is inside an scripting expression, so it will be put inside the _jspService method during translation. The other two blocks are declarations, which means they will be put outside the _jspService method. What is more, both blocks are declaring a jspInit method, which will be run only once during servlet initilization (that's why the second time you'll see no output in the log).
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and scripting expressions (<% %>. The Date code is inside an scripting expression, so it will be put inside the _jspService method during translation. The other two blocks are declarations, which means they will be put outside the _jspService method. What is more, both blocks are declaring a jspInit method, which will be run only once during 
