Can I use JSP to put info into Javascript?

[Toni Howlett]

Will this work?

I plan to use JSP to pull some values from my properties file, and I want to populate an array with those values.

So could I have JSP in my <script> tags?
(In my mind, this will work - but before I go spending time doing it and it doesn't work I was just going to ask. I know that JSP runs first and only once)

[Paul Clapham]

Sure, you could have JSP code inside a <script> element. But as you already know, that JSP will be evaluated before the browser even sees the <script> element. So just make sure your JSP code generates a Javascript assignment statement which assigns an array to a variable.

[Toni Howlett]

Alrightie - Awesome!! Thanks

[Bear Bibeault]

You might find this article helpful in understand how JSP operates in this regard.