pageContext in custom tag

[DeepakN kumar]

Hi,
Can someone please help me with the working of pageContext.getOut().print()?

Suppose i use many custom tag in my jsp and in each custom tag if i use pageContext.getOut().print(), then will the print() send the output to the browser each time? or it is written to the broswer only once?

[Stefan Evans]

The "out" here is the current JspWriter stream being used for client response.
Writing to it writes to the response buffer.

The output will be sent to the browser when
- the jsp/servlet finishes being processed
- the buffer is full
- the buffer is flushed manually.

So all of your print statements will be reflected in the response output.
The response is normally sent to the browser in a single chunk.

So if I understand the question correctly, that would make it your second guess: it is written to the browser only one.