Regarding jsp comment

[Renu Radhika]

What will be the result of this jsp line if the user takes a look at the page source code?
<!-- Today is <%= new java.util.Date() %>.Hava a nice day -->

1) It won't compile
2) The user won't see the comment
3) The user will see the same jsp line as above
4) The user will see the comment with the current date because the expression is evaluated at runtime.

Answer given is

4) The user will see the comment with the current date because the expression is evaluated at runtime.

This example is in the JSP especifications.


But I thought comments will be ignored when jsp is converted to a servlet.Then how will the scriptlet get executed?

[Mirko Bonasorte]

Because that comment is an XML comment.
The specs refer to scriptlet comments, like

<%
    /*
     Anything
     */
%>

[Renu Radhika]

But still container will ignore jsp comments when they convert it to a Servlet,then how will the scriptlet gets executed?

[PRavi kumar]

<!-- Today is <%= new java.util.Date() %>.Hava a nice day --> this is html comment it' not a jsp commnet.

jsp comments look ile <%-- some thing --%>

the container won't ignore the html comments at translation time. only browser will ignore at page rendering time

[Joe San]

But still according to the answer choices, anyways the date is inside the HTML comment, so the browser will actually ignore it totally. So 2) The user won't see the comment is correct

Try it and you will find the answer!

[Joshua Antony]

Hi Jothi,

Pls remember that the question was if the user can see the comment if he takes a look at the page source code?

Go to view->Page Source(In Mozilla) or view->Source(IE) and you can see the comment.

Regards,
Joshua

[Joe San]

oops...I'm sorry....I didn't read the question properly. All the questions that we have come across so far have only asked us to tell what results in the broswer....Anyways thanks for pointing out my mistake and now I'll be aware of such questions as well.

[Christophe Verré]

But I thought comments will be ignored when jsp is converted to a servlet.

Nope. Scriptlets inside HTML/XML comments will still be evaluated by the container. JSP comments will be completely ignored, and they look like this :

<%-- ... --%>
or even
<% /** ... **/ %>

[Joshua Antony]

For further clarification:

<!-- Today is <%= new java.util.Date() %>.Hava a nice day --> is translated to the below code in the resulting java file.

out.write("<!-- Today is ");
out.print( new java.util.Date() );
out.write(".Hava a nice day -->\r\n");

Regards,
Joshua